Coffee Buns

For a long long time, I've always wanted to bake coffee buns, but other recipes just got in the way of the coffee buns. :p Finally this morning, since I was on leave, waiting for the appointment for my daughter, I thought I might as well bake the long-awaited coffee buns. It was pretty easy to bake. I halved the recipe I extracted from Aunt Yochana's web. :)

Recipe:
Bread Dough:
250g Bread flour
15g Milk Powder
5g Instant Yeast
25g Sugar
1 egg
110g Water
35g Unsalted butter
1/2tsp Salt

Filling:
Shredded Cheese

Toppings:
35g Butter
50g Icing sugar
1tbsp Coffee
1/2 beaten egg
42g Plain flour
10g Milk Powder
1/2tsp Coffee Paste

Method:
(1) Put all the bread dough ingredients (except butter) into a mixer or bread machine and beat for about 10 mins till a dough is formed.
(2) Add in butter and continue kneading till a smooth pliable dough is formed.
(3) Roll into a ball , cover and rest for 1 hour.
(4) For toppings: Stir the butter and icing sugar till creamy. Gradually pour in beaten egg and stir till smooth. Pour in the rest of the ingredients and stir till smooth. Fill into a piping bag.
(5) Divide the dough equally into 10 portions. Roll into balls and let it rest for 10 mins.
(6) Wrap dough with the shredded cheese and seal the ends tightly.
(7) Prove for 45-60 mins or till doubled in size.
(8) Pipe topping on top of each buns in a coiling motion.
(9) Bake at 180C for about 10-12 mins. till buns are crispy on top.
(10) Cool on cooling rack.

Post-Mortem (6 Sep 08)
This is how my coffee bun turns out to be. It's still quite soft the next day. Very happy with this bun. :)