Coffee Buns
Aren't these gorgeous guys? Fancy having a cup of coffee? As London weather turned cold unpredictably, I made a batch of warm and fresh-from-the-oven coffee buns and served them with a cup of not-so-trendy dalgona coffee last weekend! Double the coffee, double the happiness. Check out my recipe below!
Ingredients
Bread
- 20 g Unsalted butter
- 2 tsp Salt
- 100 ml Semi-skimmed milk
- 100 ml Water
- 2 tsp Dried active yeast
- 330 g Flour (all purpose/ bread flour)
- 10 g Cane sugar
Filling
- 50 g Salted butter
Cream
- 70 g All-purpose flour
- 30 g Sugar
- 50 g Unsalted butter
- 1 Large egg
Coffee syrup
- 3 tbsp Instant coffee powder
- 3 tbsp Hot water
Instructions
Bread
- Add 330g all-purpose flour, 2 tsp dried active yeast, 2 tsp salt, 10 g cane sugar, 100ml water, and 100ml semi-skimmed milk into a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly using hand until a dough begins to form.
- Transfer the dough onto a lightly floured surface and begins the hand-kneading process for 10 minutes until the dough gets more elastic and less sticky.
- Then, add 20g unsalted butter to the dough and continues kneading for 10 minutes until the dough is smooth and silky. (Hand kneading refers to - fold the dough, pull it apart, put it back together, bang it against the surface and repeat the whole process again.)
- Place your dough back into a mixing bowl and set aside for proofing purposes for 1 hour for it to rise.
- After 1 hour, transfer the dough onto your work surface and punch it down to remove gas bubbles formed by the yeast.
- Let it rise for another 15 minutes.
- Then, divide the dough into 10 portions and smoothen each one into a round shape.
- Let it rise for another 15 minutes.
- Press the dough to release an additional gas bubble, wrap 5g of salted butter in the dough and repeat for 10 dough balls.
Coffee Cream
- Add 30g sugar, 50g unsalted butter, coffee syrup, and 1 large egg into a mixing bowl and stir thoroughly.
- Sift 70g all-purpose flour on top of the batter (from Step 10) and whisk it until the mixture becomes sticky.
- Pipe the coffee cream in a circular motion from the inner part towards the outer part.
Bake it up
- Bake the coffee buns in an oven preheated to 180 °C for 15 minutes.
- Enjoy and let me know if you like my recipe.