I love Rotiboy for the aroma they emit and the cheese and butter fillings in the buns. It would be troublesome to travel all the way to the shopping complex to buy them each time my family and I want to eat them. So making them myself is the best way to satisfy our desire for them; the best part is that they are not too difficult to make.
Ingredients:
For the dough:
- 120 ml water
- 1 tsp yeast
- 3 tsp sugar (1 tsp + 2 tsp)
- 275 g bread flour or high protein flour
- 3 tbsp milk powder
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1 tsp salt
- 45 g butter
- 2 pieces of cheddar cheese cut into 8 squares (will be using only 5 squares)
- 5 cubes of butter 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm
For the topping:
- 1 tbsp instant coffee
- 1 tsp hot water
- 50 g butter
- 50 g powdered sugar or icing sugar or castor sugar
- 50 g cake flour or all-purpose flour
- 1 egg
Method:
The Topping:
- Mix instant coffee and hot water. Stir to dissolve the coffee powder and set aside.
- Beat butter and powdered sugar until pale and creamy.
- Then sift in the cake flour.
- Beat 1 egg and slowly add into the cake mixture until well-combined and the consistency is good for piping. (You may not use all the egg.) Set aside for later use.
The Dough:
- Add 1 tsp of yeast into 120 ml of warm water. Sprinkle 1 tsp of sugar into the water. Mix well and let it sit for 5-10 minutes or until the mixture is foamy.
- Measure 275 g of bread flour and 3 tbsp milk powder into a mixing bowl
- Add in 2 tsp sugar to it.
- Add in 1 beaten egg.
- Then add in the yeast mixture followed by 1 tsp salt.
- Knead the dough till a round dough is formed.
- Then add in the butter.
- Knead until the dough reaches window-pane stage.
- Oil a bowl and remove the dough from the mixing bowl into this oiled bowl.
- Cover the bowl with a cling wrap and let the dough proof for an hour or until double in size.
- After 1 hour or when the dough is doubled in size, transfer into a floured surface.
- Divide the dough into 6 pieces. Form them into balls.
- Divide one of the dough into 5 pieces. Form them into small balls.
- Cover all the dough and let them rise for about 10 minutes.
- Then take 1 small dough, flatten it and put 1 piece of cheese and 1 piece of butter cube on it. Repeat this until all the 5 small dough are done.
- Take one of the big dough put one small dough on it with the seam side of the small dough facing down. Seal the big dough and roll it into a ball. Repeat this until the other big and small dough are done.
- Cover the 5 dough and let it rise for about 30 minutes.
- Pre-heat oven to 180 deg C.
- Pipe the topping on the buns in a spiral motion.
- Bake the buns for 20 minutes.