Melonpan

Ingredients

• • Dough: 300g bread flour
• • 30g sugar
• • 1 tsp instant yeast
• • 5g salt
• • 1 egg
• • 150ml warm milk
• • 30g butter
• • Cookie: 50g butter, 60g sugar, 1 egg yolk, 130g cake flour, 1/2 tsp baking powder, extra sugar

Method

1. 1

   Knead dough ingredients; prove 1 hour until doubled.

2. 2

   Cream cookie butter and sugar, mix in yolk and dry ingredients; chill.

3. 3

   Divide both into 8; wrap each dough ball in a flattened cookie disc, score a grid, roll in sugar.

4. 4

   Prove 40 min; bake at 170°C for 13–15 min until pale and crackled.