Buns
Description
The recipe won't take much time. Slightly funny aromatic homemade buns will please both children and adults. You can make them either from puff pastry or from regular sweet yeast dough, which is suitable for this kind of baking. The dough can be made from scratch or you can use ready-made store‑bought dough. In any case, you get not only an original dish, in the form of the symbol of the upcoming Year of the Pig, but also a tasty one. It is very simple to prepare and fairly quick. Try Serve it warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
- 1
Step 1
Prepare all the ingredients. Thaw the dough in advance at room temperature.
- 2
Step 2
Cut the sausages in half and trim the ends; they will be needed for garnish.
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Step 3
Roll out the dough in one direction and cut it into strips; you should get 8 pieces, each with a width corresponding to half the width of a sausage.
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Step 4
Place half of the sausage on the edge of the strip.
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Step 5
Roll up the roll and cut it in half.
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Step 6
Place the cut side up. You will get two buns. Thus, from 8 strips of dough you should get 16 buns. Press the dough a little around the sausage with your hand so that it protrudes upward.
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Step 7
Transfer the pieces onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Brush each with an egg yolk mixed with 1 tsp of water or milk.
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Step 8
Trim the ends of the sausages, cut them into 32 quarters, and place them on the buns, resembling ears. Use raisins to make the eyes. Press holes in the sausages to create snouts.
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Step 9
Bake at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes. The "Piglets" buns are ready.
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Step 10
Let them cool a little and serve at the table.