Why this recipe?
- It has a very simple and foolproof milk bread dough with minimal hands-on time.
- Your kitchen mixer will do most of the work for you.
- The bread is light and soft, with a pillowy texture.
- Filled with a sweet whipped cream, it is sure to be a hit!
Coconut cream buns ingredients
Ingredients for the milk bread
- Bread flour
- Yeast
- Sugar and salt
- Whole milk
- Sweetened condensed milk
- Butter
- Egg
Ingredients for the filling and topping
- Egg
- Sugar (granulated sugar and powdered sugar)
- Heavy whipping cream
- Vanilla extract
- Salt
- Unsweetened desiccated coconut
How to make ham and cheese buns
Prepare the milk bread dough – first rise
- Activate the yeast
- Mix all the ingredients together
- Mix with a spatula until a rough dough forms
- Let the dough rest for 20 minutes
- Knead the dough with a mixer, scraping down once halfway through
- Mix until a smooth sticky dough forms
- The dough should pass the windowpane test
- Gather the dough in a bowl and rest until its size doubles
Shape the buns and bake – 2nd rise
- Punch down the dough
- Gently knead the dough, then divide it into 10 even pieces
- Shape each piece into a small ball
- Roll the dough with your hand to make it round
- Let the dough rest until doubled in size
- Brush the dough with egg wash then bake
Assemble the buns
- Once the buns are baked, slice them in half with bottom attached
- Use your hands to open the buns to create a big opening for the cream filling
- Whip the cream until medium stiff peaks form
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