Big Poufy Buns Recipes

TASTY BUNS

Steps:

• Stir together 2 cups flour and the yeast. In a separate bowl, heat milk, water, oil, sugar and salt to lukewarm in microwave. Add all at once to the flour mixture, and beat until smooth, about 3 minutes.
• Mix in enough flour to make a soft dough, 2 to 3 cups. Mix well. Dust a flat surface with flour, turn dough out onto floured surface, and let rest under bowl for about 10 minutes.
• Shape dough into 12 slightly flat balls, and place on greased baking sheet to rise until doubled in size.
• Bake in a preheated 400 degrees F (200 degrees C) oven for 12 to 15 minutes.

BIG POUFY BUNS

Steps:

• 1. Use your bread machine to mix and knead the dough and you will get a much more tender roll than if you mixed and kneaded by hand. In the order suggested by your bread machine manufacturer add the ingredients and half of the butter.
• 2. Grease a 13x9" pan with 2 tablespoon butter (reduce this to 1 tablespoon if not using pizza stone).
• 3. Set bread machine to the dough cycle. My machine's cycle is 1 hour 20 minutes. Remove the dough from the pan and let rest for 10 minutes, covered with a damp, clean tea towel.
• 4. Divide dough into 12 equal pieces and shape into balls. Place into the greased baking dish 3 across and 4 down. They fit perfectly in a 9x13" pan. Cover again with a damp tea towel and let rise for 30 - 40 minutes until ALMOST doubled.
• 5. Bake in a pre-heated 350 oven for 22 - 25 minutes. check them at 20 minutes. THIS PART IS IMPORTANT - bake on a pizza stone if you have one and make sure you put them in the bottom third of the oven or the bottom of the rolls will be pale and soggy. Preheat the oven for at least 20 minutes to make sure the stone is really hot. If you do not have a pizza stone well you should definitely get one but bake the rolls on the bottom rack of your oven.
• 6. If they brown too fast you can lay a sheet of foil over them after 15 minutes. Remove them from the oven and brush them with softened butter - go ahead, don't be shy, use 2 Tablespoons.. do it. Just do it.
• 7. Notes:I just put my water, milk and butter in a small pan on low to heat while i measure everything out. You can do this by hand just make sure to knead for about 10 minutes till dough is elastic and no longer sticky. Machine makes it a breeze. Kitchen-aid mixer will knead it for you in about 5-7 minutes. These are substantial rolls and sometimes people can only eat one and may not even finish that so you can make 24 rolls just divide dough in 24 even amounts but still use 9x13. Be sure and use real butter, no margarine. Also if you do not have bread flour then regular flour will work almost as good.

SOFT-N-FLUFFY HAMBURGER BUNS

Steps:

• Place the water, canola oil, flour, sugar, salt, vital wheat gluten, and yeast into the pan of a bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer, select the Dough cycle, and turn on the machine. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
• When the cycle is finished, remove the dough to a lightly oiled work surface, and knead for 2 to 3 minutes. Cut the dough into 12 equal-size pieces, and roll the dough into balls by cupping your hand, with open fingers, over each piece of dough. Roll gently, with just a little pressure, to form a dough ball with a silky surface. Place the dough balls onto the parchment-lined baking sheets, and flatten each dough ball gently into a bun. Cover with a cloth and let rise until doubled, 30 to 45 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bake the rolls in the preheated oven until the tops are golden brown, about 12 minutes. Let cool on racks before slicing.

PUFFY CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES - LEVAIN COPYCAT RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In the bowl of your stand mixer, beat together the cold butter and sugar until barely combined, about 1 minute on lowest speed. Do not beat until creamed or fluffy! Add the egg and vanilla and continue to beat until combined.
• Mix together the dry ingredients and add them to the butter and sugar mixture. You should have a very stiff, lightly sticky dough. If needed, add another tablespoon of flour. Add the chocolate chips and nuts and mix until combined.
• Measure out the dough in equal portions depending on the size you want them. Levain Bakery makes 6oz cookies, I made 3oz cookies. Place the cookies on your baking sheet and place the baking sheet in the refrigerator for 5 minutes to chill the dough again. This will help prevent the cookies from spreading.
• Bake for 11-13 minutes or until the outsides are lightly browned and the insides are mostly done. Cool on a wire rack.

BIG BATCH BUNS

Steps:

• Mix the 1 3/4 cup water, sugar and yeast in a large container and let sit to raise.
• Mix the 3/4 cup sugar, dry milk, salt, oil, flour and hot water.
• Stir both mixtures together and add flour as needed to make dough that is not sticky. (This will be at least 8 cups, maybe more!).
• Kneed for 15 minutes until dough is elastic (this is where the fun family time comes in - let each kid kneed for 5 minutes -- ) Place in a LARGE oiled bowl, cover and place in warm, draft free area to rise. (We always used the large - 32 cup - Tupperware bowl with the lid sealed on. When the lid pops off, it's ready to punch down.).
• Punch down and separate, divide and create!
• Basic baking instructions are to bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.

GREAT BIG POUFY BUNS

Steps:

• Heat the water and milk with the butter until it reaches 110*.
• Put all ingredients (except seeds and egg wash) into your bread machine pan according to the manufacturers directions and set cycle to dough.
• Butter a 9x13" pan. Remove dough from pan and place in a buttered bowl and punch down, turning the dough over, and cover with a wet tea towel. Let rest 10 minutes.
• Shape dough into 12 even pieces and roll into balls. Place them three across and four down in your pan. Brush with melted butter (or beaten egg and topped with seeds) and let rise for 30 minutes (or until almost double) while you preheat your oven to 375*.
• Bake for 20 - 25 minutes, covering with foil after 15 minutes if the tops brown too much.

SOURDOUGH BRIOCHE BURGER BUNS

Steps:

• Melt the butter and set aside.
• In the mixing bowl for your stand mixer, stir together the water, sourdough starter, eggs, honey, 3 1/2 cups bread flour, sea salt and yeast.
• Put the dough hook on your stand mixer, set the mixer to speed 2 and knead for about 7 minutes. While the dough is kneading, drizzle the butter in, a bit at a time and flour, a bit at a time (alternating between butter and flour until the butter is gone). Keep adding flour, just a bit at a time, until the dough stops picking up the flour. Keep kneading until the dough picks up all the flour in the bowl.
• Shape the dough into a ball, put a little bit of olive oil on your hands and coat the dough with oil. Set the dough back in the bowl, cover and let rise for at least an hour or up to 4 hours. (If using yeast, the dough might rise all the way to the top of the bowl!)
• Remove the dough from the pan and cut into 3 pieces. If baking right away, cut each piece of the dough into 4 - 8 pieces (depending on how big you want your buns). 4 pieces will yield large buns suitable for 1/4 lb. burgers, 8 pieces are more slider sized buns. Alternatively, you can wrap the dough loosely in plastic wrap and refrigerate at this point to be baked later.
• Shape each piece of dough into a spherical shape by using your fingers to stretch the top of the dough down and pinching it underneath. Keep doing this, rotating as you go, until the ball of dough is nice and round. Oil each ball with olive oil and set on a baking sheet, leaving plenty of space between balls. Cover with plastic wrap or a clean towel and let rise in a warm place for about 45 minutes (if using yeast) or 1 - 2 hours if not, until the buns are nearly doubled in size.
• Preheat the oven to 400 F. Bake at 400 F for about 15 - 20 minutes or until the buns are golden brown on top and firm when tapped.
• Remove from oven and brush lightly with olive oil. Let cool for at least 10 minutes before cutting.