Milo buns ( melted choc chips)

Upon a request from my daughter, I made this batch with choc chips again.  She has such a sweet tooth,  at times she would just keep on topping up more and more nutella on the buns I made. :)



My children really love these buns, maybe because they love chocolate?  These have a really strong flavour of Milo, really good..

                              These choc chips just melt into your mouth as you start to chew it..

Beautiful french Lavenders....

Here's the recipe:

Lukewarm water,  1 cup
Oil,  1 tablespoon
Sugar,  1 and 1/2 teaspoon
Salt,  1 teaspoon
Skim milk powder,  1 tablespoon
Egg,  1 egg
Bread flour,   3 cups
Instant yeast,  1 teaspoon


Milo powder  1 cup
Whipping cream  2 tablespoons (  you may use 2 tablespoons of yogurt too, I had so much  heavy cream left,so I used these instead, it should help moisten the texture of bread).
Melted choc chips   choose your own amount.

Simply beautiful ground covers...

Just like my Coffee buns, this dough is very sticky.  Gently knead twice for 10 seconds and 10 minutes rest in between, use scraper, spatula, oiled hands to help the job get done easily. Do not top up flour at all , you don't need to.. it's all good eventhough it looks sticky/gluey.

Method ( I used food processor):
(note: scraper, oiled hands and spatula are the main tools to help get job done easily here).

1.  Prepare sponge.  Whisk yeast, sugar and lukewarm water together until well dissolved in a jug.  Let it sit for 5 minutes, when you see foam appearing on the surface of the jug, it's good to use.  Together with the beaten egg and heavy cream in the same jug, cover and chill in fridge for 10 minutes for later use.

2. Meanwhile,  get ready salt, flour, milo powder, skim milk powder in the food processor.  "Pulse" two or 3 times.

3. Pour in oil while you "Pulse" two to 3 times.

4. Gradually pour in wet yeast mixture and "Pulse" very briefly just enough to bring everything comes together. (note: over knead is not good).

5. Scrape dough out and roll into a ball shape.  Add in your choc chips now. Gently knead of 10 seconds and rest dough for 10 minutes, do that twice.
 Let it sit and rise for one hour or until size is doubled.

6. Deflate air bubbles and roll into a ball shape.  Rest gluten for 10 minutes.

7. Using scraper and spatula, scrape and roll them into a ball and place them onto the baking tray close to each other ( for pull-apart buns).  let it rise again or until size is doubled.

8. Bake in pre-heated oven 175 to 180c, 20 to 25 minutes  ( different oven varies). Just watch out as we have milo in as well,  you don't want to burn the buns.   I did a quick spray of water before going into the oven.

9. Good luck!