Homemade buns with sugar
Description
Baking soft, delicious sweet buns from yeast dough is quite easy if you follow this recipe. You can easily treat your family to aromatic baked goods on weekends. This dough can be used not only for soft buns, but also for various stuffed buns, for example, with cherries, potatoes, cabbage, or even fish, as it has a well-balanced, natural flavor. The weight of the buns may vary; in this recipe, the buns weigh 60 grams each. The baking is ready. Serve at the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients listed in the recipe. The eggs and butter should be at room temperature, so take them out of the refrigerator in advance.
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Step 2
In a mixing bowl, pour warm milk and add the butter.
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Step 3
Add sugar to the milk-butter mixture, mix well.
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Step 4
Beat the eggs into a bowl, mix well.
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Step 5
Add the yeast to the flour, add salt and vanilla sugar (optional), mix.
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Step 6
Add the flour mixture to the bowl and mix.
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Step 7
Knead the dough by hand or with a mixer until it becomes smooth and no longer sticks to your hands.
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Step 8
Gather the dough into a ball, place it in a deep bowl, cover with a lid, and set in a warm place to rise for 1.5 hours. After 45 minutes, perform one punch-down.
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Step 9
After an hour and a half, the dough should have risen well in volume.
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Step 10
Place the dough on a floured work surface.
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Step 11
Divide the dough into equal pieces and roll them into balls. Determine the size of the buns yourself. In this recipe, the buns weigh 60 grams each.
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Step 12
The dough, divided into pieces, is ready for shaping the buns. Cover them with plastic wrap and let rest for 15-20 minutes.
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Step 13
You can now start preparing the buns. I'll show you one interesting and impressive shaping method. Roll out a piece of dough into a thin, elongated sheet, make longitudinal cuts with a knife, not reaching the ends. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.
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Step 14
Slightly stretching the dough outward and twisting it, roll it into a "little ball."
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Step 15
Place the buns on a baking sheet, brush with a mixture of egg yolk and 1 tablespoon of milk. Bake at 180 degrees for about 25 minutes.
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Step 16
Place the finished buns, these "sugar swirls," on a rack.