Pineapple buns (菠蘿包）
Cooking tips on how to make pineapple buns or bo lo bao:
Ingredients:
Bread Dough:
Milk 1/2 cup (at room temperature)
Heavy cream 1/2 cup (at room temperature)
Sugar 1/4 cup
Active dry yeast 1 tablespoon
Salt 1 teaspoon
Egg 1 (large, at room temperature)
Dough enhancer 1/2 tablespoon
Vital wheat gluten 1/2 tablespoon
Bread flour total 1 & 3/4 cups ( add 1 & 1/2 cup first, then let the dough mix it together if the dough still sticky add 1/4 cup slowly.)
Cake flour 1/2 cup
Topping Dough:
All purpose flour 1 & 1/4 cups
Egg yolk 1
Baking soda 1/2 teaspoon
Baking powder 1/4 teaspoon
Superfine sugar 3/4 cup (use a chopper let it run around a minute)
Nonfat dry milk powder 1/4 cup
Butter (melted) 1/4 cup
Vanilla extract 1/8 teaspoon
Milk 2 tablespoons
Brush the buns:
Egg yolk 1
Instructions:
1. Adding heavy cream, milk, sugar and yeast in a mixer bowl and mix it. ( I prefer to use Bosch mixer.) Then, wait for 5 minutes. In another bowl add cake flour, bread flour 1&1/2 cups, dough enhancer and vital wheat gluten. After that, turn on the mixer at the lowest setting and add the flour mixture slowly. (Note: if the dough is too sticky, add 1/4 cup flour at a time until the dough comes together). Next, change the mixer from lowest setting to medium or high setting and let it runs for 5- 10 minutes.
2. After 5- 10 minutes, the dough is ready. Then, take the dough out in a bowl and cover the bowl with a damp towel and let it sit for 45 minuets.
3. While waiting the dough rise, prepare the topping dough by combining all the topping dough ingredients in a mixer bowl and run it for 2 minuets. Then, set it aside. (*I put regular sugar and dry milk powder in a chopper and run it for a minute.)
4. When the dough is ready, divide the dough into 10 pieces and roll it like a ball. Then put them on a parchment-lined baking sheet and let it rise.
5. Divide the topping dough into 10 pieces and roll like a ball. Then, flatten it and place on top of the bread dough.
6. Preheat oven for 350 degrees. After that, brush with egg yolk and bake at 350 degrees for 18-22 minutes until it turns golden brown.
Pineapple Buns (港式菠蘿包）
Ingredients
BREAD DOUGH:
- 1/2 cup Milk (at room temperature)
- 1/2 cup Heavy cream (at room temperature)
- 1/4 cup Sugar
- 1 tablespoon Active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 Egg (large, at room temperature)
- 1/2 tablespoon Dough enhancer
- 1/2 tablespoon Vital wheat gluten
- 1 & 3/4 cups Bread flour total ( add 1 & 1/2 cup first, then let the dough mix it together if the dough still sticky add 1/4 cup slowly.)
- 1/2 cup Cake flour
TOPPING DOUGH:
- 1 & 1/4 cups All purpose flour
- 1 Egg yolk
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon Baking powder
- 3/4 cup Superfine sugar (use a chopper let it run around a minute)
- 1/4 cup Nonfat dry milk powder
- 1/4 cup Butter (melted)
- 1/8 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons Milk
BRUSH THE BUNS:
- 1 Egg yolk
Instructions
- Adding heavy cream, milk, sugar and yeast in a mixer bowl and mix it. ( I prefer to use Bosch mixer.) Then, wait for 5 minutes. In another bowl add cake flour, bread flour 1&1/2 cups, dough enhancer and vital wheat gluten. After that, turn on the mixer at the lowest setting and add the flour mixture. (Note: if the dough is too sticky, add 1/4 cup flour at a time until the dough comes together). Next, change the mixer from lowest setting to medium or high setting and let it runs for 5- 10 minutes.
- After 5- 10 minutes, the dough is ready. Then, take the dough out in a bowl and cover the bowl with a damp towel and let it sit for 45 minuets.
- While waiting the dough rise, prepare the topping dough by combining all the topping dough ingredients in a mixer bowl and run it for 2 minuets. Then, set it aside. (*I put regular sugar and dry milk powder in a chopper and run it for a minute.)
- When the dough is ready,divide the dough into 10 pieces and roll it like a ball. Then put them on a parchment-lined baking sheet and let it rise.
- Divide the topping dough into 10 pieces and roll like a ball. Then, flatten it and place on top of the bread dough.
- Preheat oven for 350 degrees. After that, brush with egg yolk and bake at 350 degrees for 18-22 minutes until it turns golden brown.
Notes
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