Cream Cheese & Orange Filled Rolls - cooking recipe

Ingredients

250 ml milk
25 g fresh yeast
100 ml sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
100 ml melted butter (about 100 g)
800 -900 ml all-purpose flour
Filling
100 g cream cheese, softened
2 teaspoons orange zest
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
50 ml sugar
Glaze
1 egg, beaten
pearl sugar

Preparation

Crumble yeast into a bowl.
Gently heat milk to 37\u00b0C
Pour milk over yeast and mix until yeast has dissolved.
Add sugar, egg, salt, cardamom and melted butter and stir; add about 200 ml of the flour and stir.
Add most of the remaining flour and knead dough by hand, adding flour if needed, until the dough is smooth and elastic and no longer sticks to the bowl nor to your hand.
Sprinkle some flour on top and cover: let rise for 40 minutes.
Mix the filling ingredients together.
Lightly flour the baking board and turn the dough on it.
Roll dough out to a 35 x 45 cm square.
Spread the filling on the dough and roll it up tightly, starting from the longer side of the square.
Cut the roll in 12 pieces (preferably at a slant, first cut leaning to the left, the next to the right, the next to the left etc. -> /\\/\\).
Place rolls on a parchmented baking sheet, cover and let rise for 30 minutes.
Brush the rolls with beaten egg and sprinkle pearl sugar on top.
Bake at 200 C for about 13-15 minutes.
Cover the rolls while cooling.