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 6-1/2 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 teaspoon) 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: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 06:35:31 GMT