Sweet Milk Buns

When you have real supporters at home to try your bakes, you can liberally try out as many recipes as you can for you know that the finished goods will not be gone to waste 😛.

As someone who likes to bake, naturally I'm drawn to bread making. In my opinion, bread making is a level up from cake making. Kneading and proofing are acquired skills that cannot be learnt overnight.

I had tried kneading by hands before and boy! It was really very tiring. I felt like I was kneading forever and yet still couldn't get to the window pane stage. Needless to say, the end product turned out to be as hard as rock. 

Ever since then, I gave up on bread. The only time I braved myself to try again was when there was an online hype about the 40 mins recipe. It was easy and in my opinion, fail-proof!

That was before the hubs decided to grant my wish and bought me a Panasonic Breadmaker! 

Panasonic Breadmaker SD-P104

Since then, I've tried out many several recipes. I must say that the breadmaker really helped in the kneading and proofing, which made my most of my bakes successful. I was really thankful. 

Imagine waking up to a loaf of freshly baked bread in the morning. The smell of the bread was heavenly! Bliss! 

The recipe that I'm sharing in this post is a milk bun that tastes good on its own or you can pair it with kaya and butter.

Sweet Milk Buns Recipe 

(adapted from My Mind Patch)

**makes 6 large buns

Ingredients

• 160g cold milk
• 50g fine sugar
• 25g beaten egg
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 225g bread flour
• 25g cake flour
• 3/4 tsp instant dry yeast
• 30g cold unsalted butter

Instructions

1. Add all ingredients (except butter and instant dry yeast) into the bread pan
2. Add instant dry yeast into yeast compartment 
3. Select Menu 9 - Dough menu, press Start 
4. Add in butter after yeast is dispensed (timer showing 45mins left)
5. When the program ended, let the dough sit in the breadmaker for another 30mins
6. Remove dough from bread pan. Shape dough into 6 buns of 92g each (adjust according to your preference)
7. Sprinkle some water on the dough, cover with a damp cloth and proof for 40mins
8. Preheat oven to 180 deg
9. Bake at 160 deg for 10mins 
10. Lower to 150 deg and continue to bake for another 10-12 mins
11. Transfer to wire rack to cool