Cherry Foldovers

Name: Cherry Foldovers
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: Danish
Ingredients: 2.5 ml/½ tsp salt; 30 ml/2 tbsp water; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp easy bake (rapid-rise) dried yeast; 1 egg, separated; 125 g/4½ oz/generous ½ cup butter, softened; 30 ml/2 tbsp Kirsch; 225 g/8 oz drained pitted morello cherries in syrup, plus 15 ml/1 tbsp syrup from the jar or can; 1 egg; 15 ml/1 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch); 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar; 75 ml/2½ fl oz/⅓ cup water; 30 ml/2 tbsp apricot jam; 225 g/8 oz/2 cups unbleached white bread flour; 2.5 ml/½ tsp ground cinnamon; 15 ml/1 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook

By Jennie Shapter

Published 2010

About

Danish pastries are filled with a sweet cherry filling spiked with Kirsch.

Ingredients

For the Danish Pastry Dough

1 egg
75 ml/2½ fl oz/⅓ cup

Europe
Denmark
Dessert
Nordic
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Pour the egg and water into the pan. Reverse the order in which you add the liquid and dry ingredients if necessary.
Sprinkle over the flour and cinnamon, covering the liquid. Add the sugar, salt and 25g/1oz/2 tbsp of the butter, placing them in separate corners. Make a shallow indent in the flour; add the yeast. Set the bread machine to the dough set