Today we had a baking day... Maria's Buns my own recipe... my sweet daughter assisted me in the kitchen !
Ingredients
2 eggs
4 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
200 gr butter (salted)
2 1/2 dl buttermilk
50 gr yeast
600 gr white flour
makes 12 large buns
first rise 45 minutes
second rise 30 minutes
bake at 200 degrees for 12-15 minutes
*Step by Step in pics with few words **
melt your butter
2 eggs in a bowl
add 4 tablespoons of sugar
get your assistant whisking ....if you do not have an assistant ... Get busy !
add the yeast and stir until its melted ...
sieve your flour into a huge bowl
add 1 teaspoon fine salt
pour the buttermilk into a measure can
add the melted butter
add the whisked eggs
mix the wet and dry ingredient in your bowl...
get in there with your hands and mix it up
Keep going until you have a lovely lump ... add additional flour if needed
leave to rise under a clean dry dishtowel...for 45 minutes
after the first rise .... beat it up a bit, divide to 12 equal lumps ...
roll them to buns in your hands and place them on baking paper on an oven tray...
leave to rise under a clean dry dishtowel...for 30 minutes
and then in the preheated oven of 200 degrees in they go ! (Optional brush with ..egg, milk or coffee, I didn't)
Check on them in the oven after 10 minutes
remove from oven when they have the desired color (you can also remove a bit earlier if you wish to freeze them for later)
leave to cool a bit on a rack...
When you can't wait any longer ... approximately 7 minutes in our case ... nomnom
cheese ... nutella
strong cheese and butter ...
Nutella and honey....any preferred topping goes hehe
I hope the step by step helps any experimenting newbie bakers...
...We also made Buttermilk Bread ... will cover that in a seperate post as to not confuse the two ...
