Red White Blue Breakfast Buns Food

RED, WHITE & BLUE BREAKFAST BUNS

Steps:

• For the dough:.
• Place the yeast, sugar and milk in the bowl of a stand mixer. Set aside for 5 minutes until slightly frothy.
• Add the egg yolks, melted butter, flour and salt. Fit the stand mixer with the dough hook and mix everything together on a medium speed for 6 minutes until soft, elastic and slightly sticky. Pour a bit of vegetable oil over the dough in the bowl, then turn the dough in the bowl to coat.
• Cover with a damp, clean kitchen towel and leave somewhere warm until doubled in volume (1-2 hours).
• Shape the buns:.
• Use some of the melted butter (from the filling ingredients) to brush the inside of a 9 x 13-inch rectangular pan.
• Tip the risen dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Divide into 4 equal pieces.
• Roll two of the pieces out into 8 x 10 inch rectangles. Brush a quarter of the melted butter over each rectangle. Sprinkle on 1 tablespoon of the sugar. Lay 1/2 cup of the sliced strawberries over each of the rectangles. Starting at the long edge, roll up into logs. Cut each log into five 2-inch pieces. Have the buttered 9 x 13 inch pan with the long edge facing you. Place the cut pieces along the bottom long edge of the buttered 9 x 13 inch pan, in rows of 5.
• Roll another of the dough pieces out into an 8 x 12 inch rectangle. Brush a quarter of the melted butter over the rectangle. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of the sugar and lay on the remaining strawberries. Starting at the long edge, roll up into a log. Cut into six 2-inch pieces. Place in a 3 x 2 grid on the top right-hand side of the buttered pan.
• Roll the last dough piece out into an 8 x 8 inch square. Brush with the remaining butter and sprinkle 1 tablespoon of sugar over it. Scatter over the blueberries, roll up into a log and cut into four 2-inch pieces. Place in a 2 x 2 grid in the top left-hand side of the buttered pan.
• Cover the pan with a damp, clean kitchen towel and leave somewhere warm for 30 minutes to rise.
• Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Once the buns have risen and the oven is preheated, remove the kitchen towel and bake the buns for 20-25 minutes until well risen and golden on top.
• Let cool completely before piping horizontal stripes along the rows to make the white stripes of the 'flag' and dots over the blueberry buns to represent the stars.

BREAKFAST BUNS

Steps:

• Filling:.
• Fry bacon until crisp, remove and set aside. Keep the grease and set aside as well.
• Place chopped onions in hot pan and carmalize, may need to add 1 Tbsp of bacon grease. Once onions are done, add the spinach and put a lid on, stirring occasionally until spinach is thawed. Remove from pan and set aside.
• Add 2 Tbsp of bacon grease back to pan, whisk and add in 6 eggs and scramble. Add other filling ingredients and combine.
• Once combined, line a cupcake pan with papers and divide the filling into 10 equal cupcakes. Top each with 1-2 Tbsp of cheese. Place in freezer to set. (this makes assembly easier).
• Buns:.
• In a machine, whisk egg, oil, sugar, water, 1 cup flour and salt until flour is smooth. Change to a dough hook and add the flour and yeast. Let knead for 5 minutes until dough is smooth.
• Let rise for 1 hour in a greased bowl, cover with saran wrap.
• Punch down, divide the dough into equal balls. (makes about 9 or 10) flatten out a piece of dough, making sure the edges are thinner than the middke and place one of the frozen fillings cfheese side down in the middle of the dough. Fold the dough up around the filling, pinch to close and lay on baking sheet pinched side down.
• Let rise for 10 minutes.
• Bake at 375 for 15-20 minutes.

CREAM CHEESE BREAKFAST BUNS

Steps:

• Sift flour into a large bowl, make a well in the middle and crumble the yeast into it.
• Dissolve 1 tablespoon caster sugar in lukewarm milk. Pour over yeast and mix with yeast and some of the flour. This first yeast-mixture should be still fluid. Cover and let rise in warm place for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile: Mix all other ingredients for the buns until smooth.
• Add this mixture to the yeast and flour. Mix first with a spoon.
• Then knead with floured hands until dough is peeling away from the side of the bowl and blistering. This step may take 10 minutes (or more). Use some additional flour, if dough is too sticky. At the end you should have a smooth dough. See note.
• Cover and let rise in warm place for about 30 to 40 minutes or until dough has doubled.
• Line out baking tray with parchment paper. Preheat oven (390°F, 200°C).
• After dough has doubled, knead again a few times. Roll out on a floured workspace. About 1/2 inch thick.
• Cut out circles of about 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 inches in diameter. Place the buns on baking tray. Let rise again for 15 minutes.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the top of the buns are slightly golden.
• Take out and let cool completely.
• NOTE on baker's yeast: also called cake yeast. It is the yeast sold as a solid block. You could replace it by dry yeast. If you use dry yeast, dissolve the dry yeast in lukewarm water prior adding it to the flour. Use as much dry yeast as you would need for 3 cups flour.
• NOTE on cream goat cheese: I like the taste of goat cheese here, but you could replace it by any other cream cheese of your choice.
• NOTE on dough: You could also use the dough hook of your food processor to knead the dough. But I prefer to do it by hand and I always have the feeling, that the texture of a hand kneaded dough is different.