Exquisite Melon Bread. Melonpan are Japanese sweet buns covered with a thin layer of cookie dough. They take many steps to make but freshly-baked Melonpan are scrumptious! Melon Pan is a classic Japanese sweet bread covered in a thin layer of crispy cookie crust.

This melon bread is absolutely exquisite. It looks like melon, it had a crispy crust and an amazing This recipe calls for a really traditional sweet bread. As often is the case with Asian cuisines, this. You can have Exquisite Melon Bread using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Exquisite Melon Bread

It's of Bread dough.
It's 300 grams of Strong flour.
Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of Dry yeast.
It's 2 tbsp of Sugar.
You need 8 grams of Butter.
You need 1 tsp of Salt.
You need 50 ml of Milk.
You need 150 ml of Water.
Prepare of Cookie dough.
You need 130 grams of Cake flour.
You need 1/2 tsp of Baking powder.
You need 60 grams of Butter.
Prepare 50 grams of Sugar.
It's 25 grams of Beaten egg.
It's 1 dash of Melon oil (or vanilla extract).
Prepare 1 of Granulated sugar.

Melon Bread, or Melon Pan, is a sweet Japanese bread. The bread is commonly eaten in Japan and is a very Melon bread is a fluffy bread topped with sweet cookie dough and lightly dusted with sugar. Melon Pan is sweet bread covered in a thin layer of crisp biscuit/cookie crust with grid line pattern Does it taste like melon? No, traditionally the bread does NOT include melon flavor or the fruit itself.

Exquisite Melon Bread step by step

Put all the Bread dough ingredients in a bread maker, press start and wait for the dough to proof (1st proofing). Kneading: 15 minutes, 1st proofing: 40 minutes..
Make the cookie dough. Add the softened butter and sugar into a bowl, and mix..
Add the egg and melon oil to Step 2, then mix..
Combine the cake flour and baking powder, and sift. Then add into the bowl from Step 3, but leave a small amount for adjusting the consistency later. Mix with a spatula, and knead with hands..
Knead until it's no longer floury and it doesn't stick to your hands, roll into a ball. If it sticks to your hands, add the remaining flour mixture from Step 4 to adjust the consistency..
Wrap the Step 5 cookie dough with plastic wrap, and let it sit in the fridge for 20 ~ 30 minutes..
When the bread dough from Step 1 finished the 1st proofing, divide into 10 portions. Roll into balls, and let them sit for 10 ~ 15 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap to prevent them from drying..
Divide the cookie dough from Step 6 into 10 even portions, and roll into balls..
Place the cookie dough from Step 8 between two sheets of plastic wrap, and roll them out with a rolling pin. Make 10 cm diameter circles..
Press the air out from the Step 7 bread dough. Gather up the dough towards the bottom and form into balls. Place the seams up, and put them on the Step 9 cookie dough..
Put Step 11 in your hands, and form into balls. Make lines with the back of a knife, and sprinkle with granulated sugar..
Arrange Step 11 on a baking sheet, and cover with plastic wrap. Let them proof for the second time (2nd proofing) for about 30 minutes..
Bake in the oven for 15 minutes at 180℃. When baked, place on a rack right away. Let them cool, and they're done..
You can make Melon Bread with Custard Cream using the same method..

Exquisite Melon Bread Recipe by cookpad.japan - Cookpad. Japanese Melon Bread Recipe - Nitha Kitchen. Extra soft melon bread coated with cookie dough is an excellent bakery product for serving as desserts. Interested in making fresh melon bread at home? Melon bread (melon pan) is a type of sweet bread from Japan.