How to Make Yummy Japanese Melon pan (メロンパン)

Japanese Melon pan (メロンパン).

You can have Japanese Melon pan (メロンパン) using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Japanese Melon pan (メロンパン)

1. Prepare of Cookie dough crust.
2. It's 1/2 of softened butter (110g).
3. It's 3/4 cup of powdered sugar (90g).
4. It's 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
5. You need 1-2 of eggs.
6. It's 1 cup of and two tsp of flour and 1 cup and two tsp of cornstarch.
7. Prepare of Bread Dough.
8. You need 1 of large egg.
9. It's 3 of and ¼ cups of flour (400g).
10. Prepare 1/4 cup of sugar (50g).
11. It's 1 tsp of salt.
12. It's 1 cup of milk (250ml).
13. You need 2 of and 1/4 tsp instant yeast (7g).
14. You need 1/4 cup of softened butter.
15. It's of Toppings.
16. You need of Sugar.

Japanese Melon pan (メロンパン) step by step

1. For the cookie dough: Put the butter and the powder sugar In a bowl and stir with a rubber spatula..
2. Add vanilla and eggs little by little and mix well. Then, Sift and add the flour and cornstarch..
3. Once you are fine wrap the cookie dough with plastic wrap and leave it in the fridge for one hour..
4. For the Bread Dough: Add the one cup milk,1 egg, 2 and ¼ tsp instant yeast and mix..
5. Add the flour, sugar and salt and mix until the dough forms..
6. Then transfer it to a slightly floured counter and knead it for 10 minutes. Add the 55g softened butter and knead until smooth and elastic..
7. Make it round, put it in a bowl and cover it for about one hour or until it doubled in size..
8. After it doubled in size, punch out the gas and divide it in 12 pieces and form them into small balls. Cover them with a wet cloth and leave them for 15 minutes..
9. After the 15 minutes divide the cookie dough in 12 pieces. Then, Roll out the cookie dough (one at a time) between two layers of plastic wrap and flatten it. Place the flatten cookie dough on top of bread dough and enclose it..
10. Once all twelve pieces are done dip them in sugar and make a crisscross or diamond pattern on the dough. Place the dough on a cooking sheet and cover for 40 minutes..
11. ⏲ Bake in preheated oven at 180° for 20-25 minutes. And enjoy!.