Heat the milk to lukewarm, add a teaspoon of sugar and crumbled yeast - mix thoroughly, cover and set aside in a warm place for about 20 minutes.
1 teaspoon sugar, 80 ml milk, 15 g yeast
In a large bowl, place the flour, the rest of the sugar, egg, and butter. Add the yeast starter and knead the dough.
225 g wheat flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 egg, 25 g butter
Cover the bowl with the dough with a towel and set aside in a warm place to rise - for about an hour.
Once the dough has doubled in volume, transfer it to a lightly floured surface and knead briefly again.
Roll out the dough into a thin sheet - about 0.5 cm thick and approximately 20/30 cm in size.
Cut the dough into three wide strips, then cut each strip into two pieces.
How to make almond filling for buns
Mix the ground almonds with powdered sugar and softened butter (if you don't have ground almonds, blend whole almonds with powdered sugar in a food processor).
150 g almonds, 80 g powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon butter
Gradually add the lightly beaten egg white - just enough for the mixture to become sticky.
1 egg white
To make my work easier, I transferred the almond mixture to a strong piping bag, cut off a corner, and squeezed the mixture onto the dough this way.
Place the almond filling in the center of the dough and roll the dough into a log (I cut one side of the dough to a length of about 3 cm and rolled the dough from the smooth edge towards the cut side, so the tops of the buns were slightly cut) - I added a phone photo of the preparations below the recipe.
Arrange the buns on a large baking sheet, cover with a cloth, and set aside for 30 minutes to rise.
Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius (fan mode or 180 degrees Celsius top/bottom mode).
Before baking, brush the buns with an egg mixed with a little milk.
1 egg, 1-2 tablespoons milk
Bake the buns for about 15 minutes - until golden brown.