Rustic apple buns

Soft and fluffy rustic apple buns for your afternoon tea, on the go or what have we. They’re perfect just as they are, but also work excellent slattered with butter. Seasonal apples and warming spices bring autumnal flavor that will nourish your tastebuds.

Ingredients, for 9 large buns

Dough:

300 ml water

25 g yeast

4 tbsp rapeseed oil

1,5 tbsp sugar

1/2 tsp fine salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp cardamom

100 g white whole wheat flour

400 g all purpose flour

Filling:

3 apples, roughly grated

90 hazelnuts, chopped

1 egg

Directions

Dissolve the yeast in the water using a spoon. Add the rest of the ingredients for the dough and keep stirring until well combined. If you’re lucky to have a stand mixer, let this do the mixing and kneading. The dough will be sticky. Leave the dough in the bowl, covered, for one hour to rise.

Scrape out the dough onto your counter. With your hands, make a hollow in the dough and add the filling; the egg, the apples and half the nuts. You can watch a tutorial on how to make these by clicking here. By using a table scraper, mix the filling with the dough by scraping dough from the outside and in over the filling. Keep doing this until combined. With your table scraper, cut pieces of the dough and lift them on to a baking tray covered with baking sheet. Drizzle with the rest of the chopped nuts, pressing them gently into the dough.

Again, leave to rise for 30 minutes. Bake at 200 degrees Celsius for approx 25 minutes until golden. Transfer to cool on a cooling rack.