Melon Pan
Japanese basic bread roll covered with a crispy cookie and sugar
- Prep time
- 40 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 5 Tbsp butter (room temperature)
- 2 oz sugar
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- 7 oz cake flour
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp lemon zest (grated)
- 1 recipe of bread dough from Japanese Basic Bread
- sugar
Instructions
- 1
Add butter and sugar in a bowl of a stand mixer and mix for 2 minutes. Add egg and mix, and then add cake flour, vanilla and lemon zest. Mix well. Form the cookie dough into a log and chill for 30 minutes.
- 2
After finishing step 4 in Japanese Basic Bread Recipe (making 8 small dough balls and letting rest for 15 minutes)
- 3
Cut the chilled cookie log into 8 pieces, and roll out into 5" (12cm) flat rounds. Then cover the bread dough balls with the cookie dough rounds. Roll the cookie surface in sugar, and score with a knife in a grid pattern. Place on the baking sheet with parchment paper and let rise for 45-60 minutes.
- 4
Bake at 400F for 9-10 minutes. Take out of the oven and let cool.