Protein Cream Rolls: A Step-by-Step Recipe with Photos

Cream tubes – a cake familiar to everyone from childhood. Today we'll tell you how to make this treat at home, offering a simple step-by-step recipe with photos and detailed explanations of each step.

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Nutritional value per serving

440.0 kcal

Proteins: 6.0 g
Fats: 22.0 g
Carbohydrates: 56.0 g

*Nutritional value is calculated per 100g of ingredients

Total time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Time in the kitchen: 1 hour 20 minutes
Complexity:

It's easy and straightforward to prepare, but it does require some experience. Not everyone can do it right the first time.
Number of servings: 12

You may not know, but Austria is the birthplace of one of the most popular desserts in the USSR. In their homeland, these cream-filled rolls are called Schillerlocken (translated as "Schiller's curls") for their visual resemblance to the blond locks in the poet's popular portrait, which can still be seen today in a museum in Dresden.

Cream tubes gained incredible popularity in our country around the 60s-80s of the 20th century.

Traditionally, the cake is made from puff pastry, although today you can also find recipes using shortcrust pastry and even yeast dough. Cream for filling tubes It can be very diverse. Sweet ones are most often used:

protein (classic version);
custard;
curd;
marshmallow;
creamy;
berry, etc.

Also, puff pastries in the form of tubes are often filled with whipped cream or boiled condensed milk.

We have already prepared sweets before. wafer rolls with filling, now we will learn how to work with puff pastry.

Making delicious and incredibly beautiful puff pastry tubes with meringue cream at home, like the ones in the photo, is not at all difficult. The only thing you need to bake these traditional, tapered-end pastries is a cone-shaped mold, which is still inexpensively available in stores today.

A step-by-step recipe for puff pastry tubes with protein cream

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Ingredients

Servings

Ingredients for puff pastry:

Flour

250 G
Butter

100 G
Sour cream

120 G
Egg yolk

1 pcs
Salt

1 pinch
Baking powder

1 tsp

Ingredients for protein cream:

Water

100 ml
Sugar

200 G
Egg white

3 pcs

Preparation

Step 1

Stage 1 – prepare puff pastry.

In a bowl, mix dry ingredients: 250 grams of flour + 1 teaspoon of baking powder + a pinch of salt.

Step 2

Add 100 grams of softened butter to the dry ingredients and rub with your hand until crumbs form.

Step 3

As a result, you should get a crumbly buttery crumble like the one in the photo.

Step 4

Add 120 grams of sour cream of any fat content and knead a fairly stiff dough.

Step 5

Cover the finished dough ball with cling film and place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Step 6

Roll out the chilled dough thinly with a rolling pin.

Step 7

Cut the dough into thin strips.

Step 8

Stage 2 – we bake the tubes.

We roll each strip onto the form to form a beautiful tube.

From this amount of dough you can make 12 tubes.

Step 9

Place all the pieces on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Brush the rolls with egg yolk to ensure a beautiful golden brown crust after baking.

Step 10

It is necessary to bake the tubes 15-20 minutes at temperature 200℃.

Step 11

Stage 3 – we prepare protein cream for puff pastry tubes.

Bring 100 ml of water to a boil, add 200 grams of sugar to the pan and brew sugar syrup.

Step 12

Beat three egg whites until thick foam forms.

Step 13

Add warm (not hot) sugar syrup to the protein and continue whisking until a fluffy, homogeneous protein cream is formed.

Step 14

Stage 3 – we fill the tubes.

Place the protein cream for the puff pastry tubes into a piping bag and fill each puff pastry tube.

Step 15

Place the cakes beautifully on a serving plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

We also offer you a detailed step-by-step recipe for shortcrust pastry tubes with condensed milk:

Another interesting idea, suggested in this video, is perfect for those who don't have a baking pan for making rolls. Following the step-by-step recipe, you can make delicious sweet rolls made from puff pastry with an unusual filling of berry meringue cream: