MEXICAN COFFEE OR CHOCOLATE BUN

This is the all time favourite bun to my girl, usually I will make coffee bun but this time I would like to try Chocolate bun instead. I told my dad I will be making coffee bun asking him whether he wants or not, once he heard coffee, he told me straightaway "no". So I will change to chocolate immediately he said "ok".

It had been sometimes that I made these bun, and at the same time I also want to eat, hehe.

So let get down to work:

Ingredient:

Chocolate or coffee topping
200g softened butter
160 icing sugar
3 lightly beaten egg
2tbsp of unsweeten chocolate powder or instant coffee dissolved in 1 tbsp. water
200g flour

Sweet bun
500g bread flour
20g milk powder (optional)
75g of sugar
6g salt
8g instant yeast
1 lightly beaten egg
270g water
60g softened butter

Method

Chocolate or coffee topping
1 Beat softened butter and sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy

2 Gradually add in the beaten egg
3 Mix in the chocolate or coffee

 

4 Shift in the flour and mix until combined.

 

5 Put the mixture into a piping bag and refrigerate (10min before piping remove the topping paste from the fridge so that is easy to pipe)

Sweet bun
1 Mix the bread flour, milk powder, sugar and salt in a mixer until well combined (low speed if not the flour will fly all over the place)
2 Add in the yeast, egg and water. Mix on low speed first then change to medium speed until gluten is formed
3 Add in the butter, mix til window pane is formed

 

4 Remove the dough from the mixing bowl and shape into a ball, cover it with a damp cloth

5 Let the dough proof until double in size

 

6 Once the dough is double in size, check whether the dough is ready by inserting your finger in the middle of the dough and the dough did not spring back, next punch down to release the air.

7 Divide the dough 38g each, roll out in a circle and let the dough rest for 10mins.

8 Add in 4g of butter, wrap the dough

 

9 Let the dough proof for the second time until double in size

10 After proofing, pipe the filling on top of each dough and decorate with chocolate chip (which I had forgotten to take a pix)
11 Preheat the oven 200 deg C, bake for 15mins or until lightly brown

12 Is best to be eaten warm.

Enjoy:)