Conchas (Mexican sweet bread)
Conchas (Mexican sweet bread)

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, conchas (mexican sweet bread). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Conchas are a soft and sweet Mexican bread with a white topping that resembles the surface of a seashell. This is where the concha gets its name, since "concha" means "shell" in Spanish. The classic color of the topping is white, but it can also be pink, yellow, or brown (which is chocolate flavored).

Conchas (Mexican sweet bread) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Conchas (Mexican sweet bread) is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook conchas (mexican sweet bread) using 15 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Conchas (Mexican sweet bread):
  1. Take 3 tsp active dry yeast
  2. Take 1/2 cup warm water (105°-115°F)
  3. Make ready 1/2 cup lukewarm milk (scalded then cooled)
  4. Prepare 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  5. Make ready 1/3 cup butter (softened)
  6. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  7. Get 1 egg
  8. Prepare 3 1/2 cup all-purpose flour (possibly 4 cups)
  9. Prepare flavored topping dough
  10. Make ready 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  11. Make ready 1/4 cup butter (or margarine)
  12. Take 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  13. Prepare 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  14. Prepare 1/4 tsp vanilla
  15. Get 1 1/2 tsp orange zest

I started developing the recipe for back in August, and because they need a good amount of attention, I only got to test them a few times. Soft inside and crunchy outside, these shell shaped buns with a shell pattern on the top are perfect with a cup of hot chocolate or coffee! Sweet Bread literally translates to pan dulce in Spanish. While concha in English translates to seashell.

Instructions to make Conchas (Mexican sweet bread):
  1. Dissolve yeast in warm water in large bowl.
  2. Stir in milk, sugar, butter, salt, egg and 2 cups of the flour
  3. Beat until smooth.
  4. Stir in enough remaining flour to make dough easy to handle.
  5. Turn onto a lightly floured surface.
  6. Knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes.
  7. Place in a large greased bowl, then turn greased side up.
  8. Cover and let rise in a warm place until double, about 1 1/2 hours. The dough is ready if it leaves an indentation when touched.
  9. Meanwhile, prepare Flavored Topping Dough. Refer to step 12
  10. Once your concha bread dough has rised, Punch dough down; divide into 12 equal pieces.
  11. Shape each piece into a ball place on greased cookie sheet.
  12. FLAVORED TOPPING DOUGH: Beat sugar and margarine until light and fluffy.
  13. Topping Dough: Stir in flour until mixture is the consistency of thick paste.Divide into 3 equal parts.
  14. Topping Dough: Stir cinnamon into one part, vanilla extract (coconut extract is delicious as well) into one part and orange zest into another part. I like to also color the vanilla and orange zest parts with food coloring the cinnamon part will be brown on its own.
  15. Divide each part of topping dough into 4 equal pieces. (So you should have twelve all together)
  16. Pat each piece into a 3-inch circle.Place 1 circle of Topping Dough on each ball of dough, shaping it down over the ball.
  17. Make 5 or 6 cuts across the topping, using a table knife, to form a shell pattern. Cover and let rise until double about 40 minutes.
  18. Heat oven to 375°F. Bake buns until golden brown, about 20 minutes.

Makes sense given that conchas look like seashells! When I moved back to California after I graduated college, I realized I literally knew nothing about Mexican food. Concha (plural conchas, meaning "shell" in Spanish) is a traditional Mexican sweet bread roll (pan dulce). Conchas get their name from their round shape and their striped, seashell-like appearance. A concha consists of two parts, a sweetened bread roll, and a crunchy topping.

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