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Mini Maple Layered Pull-Apart Bread

Servings 6 Muffin size

Equipment

  • Muffin tin
  • Baking paper

Ingredients

Bread dough

  • 155 g Bread flour
  • 20 g Sugar
  • 1 g Salt
  • 2 g Active dry yeast
  • 10 g Condensed Milk
  • 25 g Egg
  • 70 mL Milk
  • 10 g Butter
  • Egg wash
  • Maple Syrup

Butter layer

  • 60 g Butter 10cm x 10cm

Instructions

Knead the dough

  • In a large mixing bowl, add bread flour, sugar, salt, active dry yeast, condensed milk, egg, and milk.
  • Use a hand mixer with a dough hook or you can also hand knead the dough, knead the dough until it becomes smooth.
  • Add 10g of butter and knead until it becomes a smooth dough again.
  • Cover and leave at a warm place for first proof for around 45-60 mins or until the dough doubles in size.
  • While waiting for the bread to rise, prepare the butter layer. Fold a 10 x 10 cm area on baking paper, it is for wrapping the butter.
  • Cut the 60g butter into thin slices, and fill the 10 x 10 cm area. Cover it, and use a rolling pin to flatten and spread to all the corners. Leave it in the freezer until ready to use later.
  • Brush the muffin tins with butter. We will make 6 in total, so brush 6 muffin spaces.
  • When the dough is ready, take it out from the bowl, and flatten it to a square around 18 x 18cm. (It doesn't have to be accurate, as long as you can wrap the 10 x 10 cm butter in it.)
  • Put the butter on top of the dough, and wrap it with the dough. Use the rolling pin to press it down, then roll it out to a rectangle. Roughly divide it into 3 parts, fold the outer parts towards the middle. Repeat this folding step 3 times - flatten to a big rectangle and fold it.
    Tips: Whenever the dough is bouncing back when you try to stretch it, you need to rest the dough - wrap it up and put it in the freezer for 15 mins. You can also do it every time after you fold the dough.

Shape the dough

  • After the last time of folding, flatten the dough into a big rectangle. Then divide it into 24 strips.
  • First, take 2 strips to inter-wrap with each other like a "U" shape. Then add 2 other strips wrapping outside. Put it in the muffin tin.
  • Cover it with cling film, and leave it in a warm place to rise for 30 mins.

Bake the bread

  • Pre-heat the oven at 180°C.
  • When the 30 mins are up, add some egg wash on top.
  • Bake it for 15 mins or until it's golden.
  • Once it's out of the oven, brush a layer of maple syrup on top, and it's ready to serve!
Author: namethedish