Dallaspulla - Awesome Finnish Pastry - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    Dough
    1 cup whole milk
    3/8 cup softened butter
    1/4 ounce dry yeast (1 packet)
    1 egg
    1/2 cup superfine sugar
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    5 cups wheat flour
    Finnish Filling
    1/4 cup butter
    1 large egg
    2 tablespoons sugar
    1/2 cup Quark (a.k.a. maitorahkaa)
    1/4 cup vanilla cream flour
    Alternative American Filling
    8 ounces cream cheese (1 package)
    1/4 cup granulated sugar
    1 large egg
    1 teaspoon orange zest or 1 teaspoon lemon zest
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
    2 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
    Icing
    1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
    3 teaspoons fresh orange juice or 3 teaspoons lemon juice
    1 dash water, to desired consistency
Preparation
    Prepare filling by mixing ingredients into a smooth paste. Refrigerate until needed.
    In a saucepan over low heat, warm the milk and butter to about 40C/104\u00b0F.
    In a bowl, crumble the yeast into the warm milk and butter mixture. Add sugar, salt and egg. Mix together well until the yeast is dissolved.
    Add flour gradually until the dough forms a ball. Add more flour only if it's still sticky and add only a little at a time.
    Knead dough for about 5 minutes until smooth and elastic.
    Place a towel over the bowl and let the dough double in a warm, draft-free place for about 30 minutes to 1 hour [warming the oven to ~40C/100F works very well as a proofing box].
    Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface. Gently shape dough into rough rectangle with long side nearest you. Lightly flour dough and roll into a 16-inch x 12-inch (40cm x 30cm) rectangle.
    Spread filling on the dough leaving a 1cm/.5in border on the far edge.
    Beginning with long edge nearest you, roll dough into taut cylinder.
    Firmly pinch seam to seal and roll cylinder seam-side down.
    Very gently stretch and roll to cylinder of even diameter and 18-inch/45cm length; push ends in to create even thickness.
    Using a sharp serrated knife and gentle sawing motion, slice cylinder in half, then slice each half in half again to create evenly sized quarters. Slice 3,8cm/1.5in pieces from the rolls and place into a rectangular pan using a spatula.
    Cover with a towel and allow to rise for about 30 minutes while the oven warms to baking temperature.
    Make icing.
    Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200-225C/390-435F for about 13-15 minutes.
    Cut pulla apart and drizzle icing over the tops.
    Try not to eat them all in one sitting. :).

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