Not properly a Chilean pastry, but they are widely popular there, probably due to the big German immigration on the south of Chile. Here in Houston, sadly I have never seen one. During my holidays in Belgium, we ate a delicious one, so I decided to tackle the Berliners Pastries recipe once and for all.
They were spectacular and I learned several things along the way. They are not difficult to make and the recipe is abundant enough. I highly recommend them.
Berliners Pastries can be filled with jam, Nutella, or pastry cream. Remember to make the pastry cream the day before. It needs to be very cold and hard.
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Berliners Chilean Recipe
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
- Yield: 30 1x
- Category: Sweets
- Method: Fried
- Cuisine: Chilean
Description
A delicious fried pastry filled with pastry cream.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of warm milk
- 4 cups (460 grams) all-purpose flour
- 21/4 teaspoons or 7 grams of instant yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 eggs
- oil or butter for frying
- pastry cream, dulce de leche, jelly, jam or Nutella to stuff
Instructions
- Dissolve yeast in warm milk with sugar, let stand 10 minutes, you should see some bubbles, so you know the yeast is alive.
- In a large bowl with a mixer beat butter until creamy, add eggs and beat until well blended. Add the flour and beat on low speed, while also incorporating the milk with the yeast. You will get a very soft dough.
- Cover with a cloth and leave in a warm place to rise for 1 hour, it should double in size.
- With floured hands, remove dough from the bowl to a well-floured board. Flattened gently with your hands and roll the dough until it is about 8 mm thick.
- Cut with a round cutter. I use one of 6 cm in diameter well floured, it is important that they do not stick.
- Let it rise in a warm place for 1 hour.
- In the meantime heat the oil to 350F or 180C.
- Fry about 4-6 at a time, about 2 minutes per side, until golden, turning with a stick.
- Remove with a slotted spoon to a plate lined with paper towels to absorb excess oil.
- Cut a hole with a knife and fill with pastry cream. For this, it is easiest to place the pastry cream into a pastry bag with a round tip and simply bury the tip in the middle of Berliner and fill.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.
Recipe adapted from Cooking Popular Mariana Bravo Walker.
Keywords: berlines, fried pastry, chilean cuisine
Perfect recipe to bake with kids these Scones with chocolate chips. These were again a great success, in my house, they are so crazy about chocolate that they eat them with Nutella.
