Chocolate Buns
Chocolate Buns Recipe will help you make super soft and fluffy chocolate rolls in four simple steps.We need only seven basic ingredients to make this chocolate filled buns.
Ingredients
For Chocolate buns dough
- 325 g Flour (2 1/2 cups) loosely packed
- 195-210 ml Slightly warm water or milk (not hot) (3/4 cup +1 -2 tbsp)
- 42.6 g Butter (3 tbsp)
- 1 and 1/2 tsp Yeast if using active dry yeast use 2 tsp
- 30 g Sugar 2 1/2 tbsp
- 1 tsp Salt (6g)
- Chocolate spread as required
For the chocolate swirls
- 2 tbsp Flour 16-17 g
- 1 tsp Cocoa powder 2.5 g
- 1 tsp Sugar 4.5 g
- 20-30 ml Water 1-2 tbsp to make a thick paste
Instructions
PREPARE THE CHOCOLATE BREAD ROLL DOUGH
- Into a bowl,lets add all our ingredients together and mix them to form a shaggy mass of dough.Add the milk, sugar, yeast, salt ,butter and flour and mix them together.Transfer the dough onto a clean work surface and knead the dough until the dough become soft and elastic.Only a well kneaded dough can produce soft and fluffy dinner rolls .The dough will be wet and so we may find it difficult to knead just as we knead a bread dough in the beginning.Slapping the dough on the work surface and then folding the dough and repeating he same motion will help you develop the gluten strands.The extra moisture will be absorbed by the dough in about 10 minutes and the dough will be smooth and elastic at about 15 minutes of kneading.
DIVIDE AND SHAPE THE DOUGH
- Now, divide the dough into 15 equal pieces.For more precision,I weighed each of them and they were 38-40 g in weight.Roll each piece of dough into small balls.Tuck in the edges towards the centre and roll the balls into small round balls.Then take each dough ball and then press and shape it into thin circular sheet .It is better to keep the center part thicker.Otherwise the dough layer on top will be thin and the chocolate will ooze out while baking.Place some chocolate spread or nutella in the center of the circle.Tuck in the edges and pinch together to form round ballsPlace the rolls on a nonstick baking tray or on to parchment lined baking tray or on to a well greased baking tray.
PROOF THE NUTELLA ROLLS DOUGH
- Cover the baking trya with a plastic film.Let the dough ball sit in a warm environment for about 80 minutes or until they puff up and get doubled in size.After proofing at around 80-90 minutes ,brush the top of those rolls with an egg wash to make our rolls shiny and golden brown in colour when they are baked.And Optionally make some chocolate swirls on top of the proofed dough.
- HOW TO MAKE THE CHOCOLATE PASTE FOR SWIRLSInto a bowl add some flour ,sugar, cocoa powder.Add enough water to make a thick but runny batter.Transfer the chocolate batter onto a piping bag.Make swirls on top of the buns.This give beautiful chocolate swirl pattern on top the buns.Now they are ready to to go into the oven.
BAKE THE CHOCOLATE BREAD ROLLS
- Bake the rolls in a 375 F preheated oven for 18-20 minutes.
- ENJOY!