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Recipe for the Week – Koffiebroodjes/Dutch Coffee Buns (Baking Partners Challenge #18)
9:25:00 pm
Cold
winter afternoons beg for something warm and comforting, to go along with your
coffee or tea. You can, of course, scour the neighborhood bakery for cupcakes
and the like, but there is really nothing like home baked goodies accompanied
by those amazing smells!!
This
month’s Baking Partners Challenge is perfect for the current weather and is
something most of us haven’t even heard of before – Koffiebroodjes or Dutch
Coffee Buns. This recipe has been suggested by Kaveri, and is adapted from the
one at The Dutch Table. The original recipe doesn’t have any trace of coffee;
these are intended to be had with coffee :-). I however tweaked it a bit to my
liking – replaced the raisins with chocolate chips and replaced the jam glaze
with a coffee version. Read on to see if you like it!!
For the Pastry Cream:
1 cup
warm milk
3/4 Tbsp
vanilla
2 egg
yolks
1/4 cup
sugar, powdered
1/4 cup
flour
A pinch of
salt
1. Mix the
egg yolks with sugar, add salt and 1 T flour. Mix till creamy.
2. Add
vanilla to warm milk and stir. Mix 1 T of milk mix into egg mix. Stir in rest
of flour.
3.
Carefully stir all this back into remaining warm milk and on low heat, stir the
mixture till it is a thick mass.
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4. Take
off stove and cover with plastic film so that the film is touching the surface
of the pastry cream. This is to prevent the formation of a skin. Cool to room
temp.
For the Bun Dough:
1 cup
lukewarm milk
2 tsp
active dry yeast
5 Tbsp
sugar
3.5 cup
flour
60 g
butter at room temp
1 tsp
vanilla
1 small
egg
1/4 cup
chocolate chips
1.
Dissolve the sugar in 1/2 cup of lukewarm milk and add the yeast. Leave to rest
for 15 minutes till it foams up.
2. Add
the proofed yeast mix into the flour along with the vanilla, butter and egg and
mix into a smooth dough. Add the remaining milk slowly and as needed.
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3. Cover
with a damp cloth and proof till doubled in size, about 1 hour.
4. Roll
out the dough into a square 12x12 inches approximately. Use extra flour if the
dough appears sticky.
5. Spread
the pastry cream onto the dough, leaving the sides free. Sprinkle the chocolate
chips on the cream.
6. Take
the furthest end of the dough and roll it towards you. Place it seam down and
divide the roll into equal slices about an inch wide.
7. Place
the slices cut side down on parchment placed on a baking sheet. Cover and proof
for about 30 minutes or till the dough is puffy.
8.
Preheat oven to 180° Celsius and bake the rolls for 10 minutes. Turn the baking
sheet around and bake for a further 10 minutes till golden brown. Cool to room
temperature on a wire rack.
For Coffee Icing:
25ml of
hot water
2 tsp
instant coffee
100g of
icing sugar
Make an
espresso with the hot water and coffee and whisk it with the icing sugar to a
smooth lump free paste.
Drizzle
the icing on top of the buns and enjoy with a cup of coffee. Doesn’t just
reading about it make you feel all warm and cozy?
The bun
part turned out really soft and fluffy, and it went perfectly with the yummy
pastry cream and the melting chocolate chips. Mmmmm!!!!!
This requires a bit of prep,
considering the pastry cream and the proofing time, but otherwise it’s actually
easy and doesn’t require too many ingredients. I’ve wanted to try some pull
apart buns for a while, and I’m glad I got this recipe that has a similar
technique. Do you guys have any tried and tested recipes to go with your
afternoon tea or coffee?
23 comments
Lovely buns! Love the idea of the coffee icing on top!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sandhya!! When I heard the name, I imagined it would have a coffee icing, but even when I saw it didn't I couldn't get the thought out of my head!!
DeleteThe coffee glaze sounds interesting. Nicely made
ReplyDeleteThank you Kaveri!! This was a great suggestion for Baking Partners!
DeleteLovely buns Fabida, I've also used chocolate chips, but your idea of using coffee icing is fantastic. I'll use it when I'll bake them agian.
ReplyDeleteCheers from Valencia
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Thank you so much, Marisa!! My family isn't very fond of raisins, so I thought the chocolate and coffee would be a good combination :-)
DeleteMmm, coffee glaze and choco chips. They rock!
ReplyDeleteThank you Nagashree!! They did taste good together :-)
DeleteBeautiful done, love those coffee glaze and chocolate chips yumm.
ReplyDeleteThank you Swathi!!!
DeleteHmpf...so I decided I am going to write another comment >.< :D You got me drooling from the very first picture...baking isn't my thing at all...I always end up eating half my ingredients before I make anything :P And I am soooo jealous of cub right now!! Adopt me, pretty please? :P
ReplyDeleteHa ha!!! Sure thing!! But then we'd all go hungry as we sit and talk about Bones and Books and Garfield ;-P. I started on these buns in the morning so that they'd be ready by tea time. However they were ready by lunch time and Cub gobbled up two of these right after his lunch - he loved them!!!
DeleteLove the glaze,soft and yummy buns.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Suja!!
DeleteGod, I am craving these like right now! Dang!
ReplyDeleteOh, do try them out then - you don't need to be an experienced baker for this!!
DeleteYum, yum, yum! Can you send me some :).
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rachna!! The current batch is finished, but I'll let you know when I bake them again :-)
DeleteOh, these look so yum!! I am not very good at baking, but i am tempted to try these...loved your idea of choc chips!!
ReplyDeleteDo give it a try - you might be surprised!!
DeleteEverything looks just perfect! The glazing, the chocolate chips..all of it..if only you could send me some :)
ReplyDeleteHa ha, maybe when I bake the next batch!! Thank you for stopping by, Shefali :-)
DeleteAnd you've done it again - made my mouth water and tempt me to send you my address! ;)
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