Conchas (Mexican sweet bread)

Judith
Judith @andrea_vasquez
Beloit, Wisconsin

Family loves these :)

Conchas (Mexican sweet bread)

Family loves these :)

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Ingredients

3 hours 20 mins
12 servings
  1. 3 tspactive dry yeast
  2. 1/2 cupwarm water (105°-115°F)
  3. 1/2 cuplukewarm milk (scalded then cooled)
  4. 1/3 cupgranulated sugar
  5. 1/3 cupbutter (softened)
  6. 1 tspsalt
  7. 1egg
  8. 3 1/2 cupall-purpose flour (possibly 4 cups)
  9. flavored topping dough
  10. 1/3 cupgranulated sugar
  11. 1/4 cupbutter (or margarine)
  12. 1/2 cupall-purpose flour
  13. 1 tspground cinnamon
  14. 1/4 tspvanilla
  15. 1 1/2 tsporange zest

Cooking Instructions

3 hours 20 mins
  1. 1

    Dissolve yeast in warm water in large bowl.

  2. 2

    Stir in milk, sugar, butter, salt, egg and 2 cups of the flour

  3. 3

    Beat until smooth.

  4. 4

    Stir in enough remaining flour to make dough easy to handle.

  5. 5

    Turn onto a lightly floured surface.

  6. 6

    Knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes.

  7. 7

    Place in a large greased bowl, then turn greased side up.

  8. 8

    Cover and let rise in a warm place until double, about 1 1/2 hours. The dough is ready if it leaves an indentation when touched.

  9. 9

    Meanwhile, prepare Flavored Topping Dough. Refer to step 12

  10. 10

    Once your concha bread dough has rised, Punch dough down; divide into 12 equal pieces.

  11. 11

    Shape each piece into a ball place on greased cookie sheet.

  12. 12

    FLAVORED TOPPING DOUGH: Beat sugar and margarine until light and fluffy.

  13. 13

    Topping Dough: Stir in flour until mixture is the consistency of thick paste.Divide into 3 equal parts.

  14. 14

    Topping Dough: Stir cinnamon into one part, vanilla extract (coconut extract is delicious as well) into one part and orange zest into another part. I like to also color the vanilla and orange zest parts with food coloring the cinnamon part will be brown on its own.

  15. 15

    Divide each part of topping dough into 4 equal pieces. (So you should have twelve all together)

  16. 16

    Pat each piece into a 3-inch circle.Place 1 circle of Topping Dough on each ball of dough, shaping it down over the ball.

  17. 17

    Make 5 or 6 cuts across the topping, using a table knife, to form a shell pattern. Cover and let rise until double about 40 minutes.

  18. 18

    Heat oven to 375°F. Bake buns until golden brown, about 20 minutes.

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I enjoy making food that is flavorful & family oriented. I have a large family so most of the food I prepare is fun and enjoyable for all ages :) My husband is from Honduras so I incorporate a lot of Hispanic food in my recipes :)
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