Conchas Recipe

Name: Conchas Recipe
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 45 min
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 500 grams (3-¾ cups) All-Purpose Flour plus extra for dusting; 125 grams (½ cup + 2 tablespoon) Sugar; 7.5 grams (2- ½ teaspoon) Rapid Rise (or Quick Rising) Instant Yeast. (SEE NOTES IF USING ACTIVE YEAST); 3 grams (½ teaspoon) Salt; 100 grams (½ cup) Non-Salted Butter at room temperature; 100 ml eggs (use a measuring cup, it equals about 6-½ Tbps); 5 ml (1 teaspoon) Vanilla extract*; 120 ml (½ cup) of Milk warm; 100 grams (½ cup plus 1 teaspoon) Vegetable Shortening plus extra to grease the dough and baking sheets; 100 grams (⅞ of a cup) Confectioner Sugar; 120 grams (1 cup) All-Purpose Flour; 5 grams (2-½ teaspoo) Cocoa powder for half of the topping, if desired; 5 grams (1 teaspoon) Cinnamon optional for the white topping

Instructions

Prep:25minCook:20min

Among all the different kinds of traditional Mexican Pan Dulce (“sweet bread”), Conchas are without a doubt the most popular and recognizable. No other pan dulce is more representative of Mexico and its love of bread.

Updated at: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:08:06 GMT