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Indian bakery cream roll
Crisp sugar-glazed puff pastry cones piped full of vanilla whipped cream
Cream rolls are a sweet memory for children across India, from the Irani cafés of Mumbai to Kerala's small-town bakeries: spirals of flaky puff pastry baked around a cone, glazed with sugar and piped with soft vanilla cream. They turn up on birthday party plates and in after-school bakery treats. This version uses whipped cream rather than the shortening icing of many shops. It contains gluten and milk. Chef's tip: fill them only an hour or two before serving so the pastry stays crisp.
- Total time
- 50 min
- Difficulty
- medium
- Serves
- 12
Ingredients
For the cones
- 11 ½ oz all-butter puff pastry1 ready-rolled sheet, chilled
- 1 tbsp milkfor brushing
- 2 tbsp granulated sugarfor sprinkling
- ⅓ oz butterfor greasing the moulds
For the cream
- 1 ¼ cups double creamwell chilled
- 1 ⅜ oz icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
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Method
0/6 doneStep 1: Heat the oven to 400°F (fan 350°F) and line a baking tray. Grease 12 metal cream-horn moulds with ⅓ oz butter, or make cones from double-thickness foil.
Step 2: Cut 11 ½ oz all-butter puff pastry lengthways into 12 strips about 2 cm wide. Starting at the tip, wind each strip around a mould, overlapping each turn by a third and stopping 1 cm from the open end. Press the end down so it doesn't unravel.
Step 3: Lay the cones seam-side down on the tray, brush with 1 tbsp milk and sprinkle with 2 tbsp granulated sugar. Bake for 15–18 minutes, until puffed, deep golden and the sugar has turned glassy.
18 minStep 4: Cool for 5 minutes, then twist the moulds out gently while the pastry is still warm. Leave the cones on a rack until completely cold. Filling them warm is the most common mistake: the cream melts and slides out.
20 minStep 5: Whip 1 ¼ cups double cream with 1 ⅜ oz icing sugar and 1 tsp vanilla extract until it holds firm peaks, then spoon into a piping bag with a star nozzle.
Step 6: Pipe the cream into each cone right down to the tip, finishing with a swirl. Chill and serve within 2 hours; empty cones keep in an airtight tin for 2 days.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 230 kcal
- Protein
- 2 g
- Carbs
- 15 g
- Fat
- 18 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
Nutrition values are estimates.
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Good to know
- How long does indian bakery cream roll take?
- About 50 minutes in total: 30 minutes to prepare and 20 minutes to cook.
- How many people does it serve?
- 12 as written. Change the servings above the ingredients and every amount scales to match.
- Is it vegetarian?
- Yes. It has no meat or fish.
- What can I use instead of milk?
- Oat, soy or almond milk, same amount (use unsweetened for savoury dishes).
- What can I use instead of granulated sugar?
- Caster sugar, same amount.
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