Cream-Filled Bombs

Name: Cream-Filled Bombs
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Alemana
Ingredients: 500 grams flour; 2 eggs; 25 grams active yeast; 70 sugar; 50 grams butter, without salt; 1 cup cow's milk, warm; vegetable oil, for frying; 4 egg yolks; 50 grams cornstarch; 150 sugar; 1/2 liters whole milk; vanilla bean; 40 grams butter; 1 pinch cinnamon; lime zest

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Filled bombs are one of those things that are always found in a Venezuelan bakery; these slightly sweet doughs are fried and then filled with pastry cream and sprinkled with sugar, reminiscent of globalized filled donuts, but they have a slightly denser texture. They are a classic Venezuelan snack that many people immediately associate with childhood. In other countries, they are known as "berlinesas" or "krapfen," which reveals their German origin. In fact, they are popular in that country, as well as in Austria, and due to immigration, in many parts of South America.

Reviewed by Editorial Team of Kiwilimón

Published: 11-08-2014

Preparation

10 mins

30 mins

Low

For the dough: Place the flour in a bowl and make a well in the center or a volcano shape. Add the sugar, eggs, room temperature butter, and yeast. Mix and gradually incorporate the warm milk, observing the consistency of the dough, which should be homogeneous and soft but not liquid. Knead and form a ball. Leave in the bowl covered with a cloth to rise and increase in size. Let it rest for half an hour. Once it has risen, cut pieces of dough, shape them into balls, and let them rise for another half hour.