Trinidad Currants Roll

Just imagine sitting eating a flaky party stuffed with sweetened currants. Flakes everywhere. Nothing like a good old Trinidad currants roll. The perfect afternoon snack.




I am so happy to finally be able to share this all-time favorite Caribbean dessert with you. This currant-based dessert is a labor of love, or more so patience.

If you are new to this treat. It literally is a flaky crust that we roll spiced up currants into. Then bake it till golden brown. The flakier, the better.

It is a total roll of messy goodness!! And we don't want it any other way.

Currants roll is one of the major treats sold at your bakeries along with jelly buns, coconut tart, sweet bread and hops bread.


I had to do a little conversion to share this recipe with you guys.

I have some family with a bakery and they make this in obviously large batches. Which I obviously did not need to make.

When she gave me what she uses, they were not only large were also imperial measurements.

So there I was trying to convert and re-measure and running back to my computer to research.

After all that frustration, I decided I had to have something close by in my kitchen, and I made a pretty conversion chart to print and save.

And I am sharing this chart with you.

Once you subscribe, you’ll be directed to my printables page where you can download the printable to your computer.

Now back to the goodies.

Ingredients for Trinidad currant rolls

Equipment
Food processor
Baking tray
Cooling rack





So let's discuss this flaky pastry making.

Tips for making flaky pastry

A lot of people shy away from making flaky pastry. It can be a failure project. I've been there a few times.

There is nothing wrong with buying pre-made pastry crust at all. These tips relate to both bought and homemade flaky pastry.

1. Take your time
Patience is key here. The pastry needs to "relax" during the process. The rest periods help to get the butter to set so that it stays firm. We also want the dough to not be too stiff so that we can easily roll it out.

2. Make sure your surface is cold.
Your butter is nice and cold and firm so that it doesn't escape out the pastry edges when we are rolling it out. So a cold surface would help to make sure the temperature of the butter stays low while we work with

3. Get your layers even
So that we can an even rise of our pastry roll, we want to make sure that we roll the pastry to as close as the same size as possible whenever we roll it out. It is also the same for when we are folding it.

4. Easy on the flour
I love to add "a little flour" when rolling out to help with turning the pastry. But this is added flour to the dough. A good thing to do is dust off any excess flour you see on there.

5. Oven Temperature is nice and hot
You want to make sure your oven is preheated before putting in your item. Not just now heating up but has reached the required temperature.



And then those currants. You can also easily use raisins instead.

And what is so good about this dough recipe is that you can also use it to make coconut rolls and cheese rolls.

But currants roll is definitely my favorite.

These can be given that "just baked" feeling by throwing it back into the oven/toaster oven to get it warmed up and nice again.

It can also be stored in the freezer after baking, taken out and brought to room temperature then put into the oven to toast.

Nice and warm.

Catch some more snacks/desserts:

• Pholourie
• Gizzada
• Coconut Tart
• Pone

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