Name: Iced fingers
Yield: For 14 fingers
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 100 g (3½ oz) butter, at room temperature, cubed; 60 g (2¼ oz) raw (demerara) sugar or white sugar; strawberry or raspberry jam; 5 tsp water; 400 ml (14 fl oz) cream with at least 40% fat; 2 tsp lemon juice; 200 g (7 oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar; 5 g (⅛ oz) fine sea salt; 2 eggs; 1 tbsp white sugar; ½ tsp baking powder; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour; 250 ml (9 fl oz) lukewarm full-fat milk; 15 g (½ oz) dried yeast

Preparation info

For
14
fingers

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

An Iced finger or Iced bun is made from sweet yeast dough enriched with eggs, milk and butter or lard. It can be square, round or finger-shaped, depending on the bakery, and the icing is either snow white or baby pink. The buns are usually sold unfilled, but sometimes they are filled with jam and whipped cream, or just whipped cream. The bun must be very light and fluffy and baked to a pale golden colour. If you see Iced fingers in rural bakeries, they are often very large and the first thi