Tip: If your kitchen is cold, then if your oven can, pre-heat the oven at 30ºC while the eggs and butter reaches room temperature. Then turn off the oven, keeping the oven door closed, right before making the dough. This way you can rise your dough in the turned of oven giving it the optimal temperature of between 23-25ºC.
Heat up the milk so it’s lukewarm (37ºC), and pour it into your mixing bowl and crumble the fresh yeast over the milk. With a spatula stir it together until the yeast has melted. (If you are use dry yeast, let it bloom in the warm milk per instruction of the pack)
225 g whole milk, 30 g fresh yeast
Add the granulated sugar, cardamon and eggs and give it a gentle stir to mix it together.
50 g granulated sugar, 2 large eggs, 1 teaspoon cardamom
Add 400 g of the flour and stir it in with a dough hook until combined. On medium speed add the butter in 4-5 portions, mixing until each piece of butter has been mixed into the dough. If some of the butter gets stuck on the side of the bowl, scrape down the side of the bowl with a spatula to make sure it’s all mixed into the dough. Thereafter add the salt and mix it in.
560 g all-purpose flour, 100 g butter, 1 teaspoon salt
Follow with adding the remaining flour. When the flour has been incorporated, increase the speed to the highest speed and let it mix for 8-10 minutes or until the dough is smooth and shiny.
Cover the dough with plastic wrap and a tea towel and place it in a warm room temperature area in your house or use the trick with the oven. Let it rise for 45 minutes.