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Yeast Rolls with Homemade Lemon Cream
These soft yeasted rolls are lightly flavoured with cardamom and filled with a tangy lemon cream made from fresh lemons, egg, sugar, cornflour and butter.
From YouTube · Jan 5, 2026
These soft yeasted rolls are lightly flavoured with cardamom and filled with a tangy lemon cream made from fresh lemons, egg, sugar, cornflour and butter.
1 hr 25 min
Prep time
30 min
Cook time
2 hrs
Total time
1 batch of filled rolls
Yield
Ingredients
16 ingredients- [Dough] 500–550g wheat flour
- [Dough] 1 tbsp sugar
- [Dough] 1 egg
- [Dough] 1 egg yolk
- [Dough] 13g fresh yeast
- [Dough] 5–6g ground cardamom
- [Dough] 125ml warm water
- [Dough] 125ml warm milk
- [Dough] 5–6g salt
- [Dough] 50g butter
- [Lemon cream] 2 lemons
- [Lemon cream] 1 egg
- [Lemon cream] 100g sugar
- [Lemon cream] 1 tsp cornflour
- [Lemon cream] 50g butter
- [Decoration] Icing sugar
Method
11 steps- Dissolve the fresh yeast and sugar in the warm water and milk.
- Add the egg, egg yolk, flour, cardamom, salt and butter. Knead until smooth.
- Cover and leave the dough to rise for 50–60 minutes.
- Zest and juice the lemons.
- Whisk the lemon juice and zest with the egg, sugar and cornflour.
- Cook gently, stirring continuously, until thickened. Remove from the heat and stir in the butter.
- Leave the lemon cream to cool.
- Divide and shape the risen dough into rolls, adding the lemon cream as the filling.
- Place on a lined baking tray and leave briefly to rise again.
- Bake at 180°C for 25–30 minutes until golden.
- Cool and dust with icing sugar before serving.
Recipe notes
Storage
Because the rolls contain an egg-and-butter lemon cream, refrigerate leftovers in an airtight container and consume within 2 days.
Additional tips
- Contains wheat, milk and egg. Cook the lemon cream gently while stirring continuously because it contains egg.
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