Baking · Finnish

Bostonkakku

Name: Bostonkakku
Cook time: 75 min
Total time: 75 min
Yield: 20 servings
Cuisine: Finnish
Ingredients: 2.5 dl milk; 25 g fresh yeast; 1 dl sugar; 0.5 tbsp cardamom; 0.75 tsp salt; 1 egg; 7 dl wheat flour; 100 g butter; 150 g butter, at room temperature; 1.25 dl brown sugar; 3 tsp cinnamon

A succulent Boston cake (pullakakku) is a wonderful sweet bun classic! This version features the flavors of cinnamon and brown sugar.

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Machine-translated, original language: Suomi.

Cook 1 h 15 minTotal 1 h 15 minInspired by k-ruoka.fi

Method

1
Prepare the bun dough. Warm the milk to lukewarm and dissolve the yeast into it. Mix in the sugar, cardamom, salt, and egg.
2
Knead the flour into the dough gradually. Add the softened butter towards the end of adding the flour. The dough should remain soft. Knead the dough until it is smooth and releases from your hands and the sides of the bowl. Let the dough rise under a clean kitchen towel until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.
3
Line the bottom of a springform pan (diameter 24 cm) with parchment paper and grease the sides. Mix the brown sugar and cinnamon into the room temperature butter.
4
Roll the dough out into a rectangle (about 35 x 45 cm). Spread the butter-sugar mixture over the dough. Roll the dough up tightly starting from the long side. Cut the roll into 12 pieces. Arrange the pieces in the pan so that there are 4 pieces in the center and the rest around them.
5
Let rise in a warm place, covered with a towel, for 20–30 minutes.
6
Bake the Boston cake on the lowest rack of a 200 °C oven for about 30 minutes. Cover the surface with parchment paper if it starts to brown too much.