Dessert buns

Dessert buns: Delightful sweet bite. Image: Msi Muzi Mathebula

Dessert buns: Soft and featherlight sweet treat

Bring some featherlight sweetness to your Christmas dessert table this festive season with this dessert buns recipe.

Dessert buns

Dessert buns: Delightful sweet bite. Image: Msi Muzi Mathebula

Want to try a new dessert recipe? These pillow-soft dessert buns are an excellent sweet treat to prepare for the family for the festive season. Having a celebration without some sweetness is just not complete.

You will be surprised how these seemingly simple buns can transform into a mouth-watering dessert. Dress them up with whipped cream and a colourful array of berries and all your guests will be licking their lips to dig into this dessert.

When preparing these dessert buns, make sure you have set aside enough time. Although the preparation time and baking time are only 20 minutes respectively, you need to allow the dough to rise for one hour and 25 minutes at two different intervals. So, this is not a dessert you can whip together in a few minutes.

With this delightful dessert buns recipe up your sleeve, you will bring some featherlight sweetness to the Christmas dessert table. Let us know in the comments if you plan to try out this recipe.

Dessert buns recipe

5 from 1 vote
Recipe by Msi Muzi Mathebula Course: DessertCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy
Servings

12

servings
Prep time

20

minutes
Cooking time

20

minutes
Rising Time

80

minutes
Total time

2

hours 

Ingredients

  • 1 cup 1 milk

  • cup white sugar

  • cup butter

  • 1 tablespoon 1 active dry yeast

  • 4 cups 4 all-purpose flour

  • ½ teaspoon ½ salt

  • 2 2 eggs

  • 2 tablespoons 2 vegetable oil

Method

  • In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the milk, sugar and butter. Heat until slightly warm to the touch, then remove from the heat and stir in the yeast. Let it stand until foamy; this takes about 10 minutes.
  • In a large bowl, stir together the flour and salt. Mix in the eggs, oil and yeast mixture. Mix until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and continue to knead until the dough is smooth and elastic; this takes about 10 minutes.
  • Grease a large bowl with 1 tablespoon of oil. Place the dough into the bowl and turn once to coat. Cover and let it stand in a warm place until double in size; this takes about 1 hour.
  • Use the remaining oil to grease a cookie sheet or 9×13 inch pan. For plain rolls, punch down the dough and divide it into 12 equal pieces. Roll the pieces into balls and place them into the greased pan side by side. Let the dough rise for 20 to 25 minutes, or until almost double. Preheat the oven to 190°C.
  • Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, until the rolls are golden brown. And serve with whipped cream and berries.

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