Here is the latest in Sweet Bean’s kitchen! Try our Coffee Buns with our buns with coffee buttercream topping. Coffee buns are soft buns with coffee cookie crust on top. As always, we would love to see and hear from you about how your own coffee creation.

Coffee Buns

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 minutes

Ingredients

For the Buns

• 2.5 cups of Flour

• 2.125 cups of Milk (or 2 cups and 2 tbsp)

• 1 Egg

• 3 tbsp of Butter

• 1 1/2 Yeast

• 3 tbsp of Sugar

• 3/4 tsp of Salt

For the Filling

• 50 g Butter

For the coffee topping

• 60 g Sugarhalf tbsp instant coffee powder 4 tbsp+2 tsp

• 4 tbsp Butter

• 70g Flour

• A Pinch of salt

• 1 Egg

• 10 ml Warm water

• 1/2 tbsp Coffee Powder

Instructions

Prepare the dough

• Add in the milk,sugar,salt,yaest,egg,butter and flour into a bowl.

  Mix everything together to form a shaggy mass of dough.

  Knead the dough until we get a soft ,smooth,elastic dough.

Divide and Shape the dough

• Divide the dough into 10 equal pieces.(60g each)

  Roll each portion into small round balls.

  Flatten the balls and stuff with frozen butter cube and then wrap it with the dough.

  Place these rolls onto a nonstick baking tray or on to a baking tray lined with parchment paper.

  Cover it with plastic film.

Proofing the dough

1. Let the dough balls sit and rest for 80-90 minutes.

Pipe the buns with coffee topping

1. Pipe the prepared coffee topping onto the risen buns in a tight circular pattern upto 2/3rd of the top surface.

Bake the coffe buns

1. Bake the piped rolls @350F preheated oven for 20-22 minutes.

2. These coffee buns are lightly sweet and mildly flavored with coffee.

   Have them with some hot coffee.