Guyanese Coconut Buns Food

GUYANESE COCONUT BUNS

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder, and spices. Rub butter into flour mixture.
• Add lemon peel, coconut, sugar to the mixture. Combine well.
• Add essence to milk. Pour milk into the mixture and mix to form a sticky dough. Add in raisins.
• Drop by spoonful onto baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 18-22 minutes or until golden brown.

GUYANESE COCONUT BUNS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350F/180°C.
• In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add butter, and cut in using a pastry blender or a fork until the mixture resembles fine crumbs.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, vanilla extract, and almond extract.
• Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, and pour in the wet ingredients. Add coconut, and mix just enough to blend.
• Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets, 2-3 inches apart as they really spread.
• Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown. Keep an eye on these as they will burn if left in too long.
• Transfer to a cooking rack immediately or else they will stick to the pan.
• Cookies are soft with crunch edges at first but get completely crunchy upon cooling.

GUYANESE COCONUT BUNS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add butter, and cut in using a pastry blender or a fork until the mixture resembles fine crumbs. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, vanilla extract, and almond extract. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, and pour in the wet ingredients. Add coconut, and mix just enough to blend. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

COCONUT BUNS

Steps:

• In a big bowl, mix all dry ingredients (flours, salt, yeast) . Make a little well in the middle and pour the coconut milk and honey water. Mix with spatula until it forms a dough.
• Add melted butter and knead for about 10-15 minutes by hand until it become soft and elastic.
• Put it in a bowl, cover it with damp towel or plastic wrap and let it sit in a warm place for an hour.
• Divide the dough into 24 pieces of small ball. Put it on the baking sheets and let it sit one more time for 15 minutes. Preheat your oven to 200ºC.
• Brush with the eggwash and sprinkle with bit of salt. Bake for 20 - 25 mins or until golden brown on the top of the buns.
• Brush again with melted butter right after it came out of the oven to get a lasting shine.