Melon Bread With Custard Cream Filling. We are making Cream Pan filled with a generous amount of pastry cream. This bread has been popular in Japan since I was a child. This is the most popular sweet bread in Japan.

The traditional recipe is, wrap thick custard cream in sweet dough and bake. Melon Pan is sweet bread covered in a thin layer of crisp biscuit/cookie crust with grid line pattern on top. There are some Melon Pans that include chocolate chips, cocoa powder, or even matcha, and some bakeries put custard (cream) inside the bun. You can cook Melon Bread With Custard Cream Filling using 20 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Melon Bread With Custard Cream Filling

You need 300 grams of Bread flour.
It's 1 of & 1/2 teaspoons Dry yeast.
Prepare 2 tbsp of Sugar.
You need 8 grams of Butter.
It's 1 tsp of Salt.
It's 50 ml of Milk.
It's 150 ml of Water.
It's of [Making the Cookie Dough].
It's 130 grams of Cake flour.
It's 1 tsp of Baking powder.
You need 60 grams of Butter.
It's 50 grams of Sugar.
You need 25 grams of Beaten egg.
You need 1 dash of Melon Oil (You can also use vanilla essence).
You need 1 of Granulated sugar.
It's of [Custard Creme].
You need 2 of yolks Egg Yolks (Medium Sized).
It's 200 ml of Milk.
You need 35 grams of Sugar.
It's 15 grams of Cake flour.

These sweet buns are covered in cookie dough and stuffed with strawberries and cream. Great recipe for Pancake Mix Matcha Melon Bread. I tried making melon bread with green tea powder while keeping the melon bread flavor intact. Have you ever had Japanese bread ?

Melon Bread With Custard Cream Filling instructions

[Baking the Dough] Add all of the ingredients into a bread maker and set it to make the dough till the first rising. Knead it for 15 minutes and then let it rise for 40..
How to make the cookies: In a bowl add in the softened butter and sugar and mix..
Add in the eggs and melon oil and mix..
Mix together the flour and the baking powder and sift it in. However, set some aside. Mix it with a spatula and knead it with your hands..
Knead it until the dough is no longer floury and it comes together. If it still sticks to your hands, add in some of the dry flour and baking powder mix to make it a little more dry..
Cover the dough in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for 20-30 minutes..
How to make the custard. Put the egg yolks and sugar in a heat proof bowl and mix together..
Sift the cake flour in and then mix it till it's no longer floury. Then add the milk in and mix..
Gently cover the bowl with plastic wrap and microwave it at 600W for 3 minutes then whisk it..
Heat again in the microwave for 1 minute. Take it out and mix it again with a whisk..
Cover it with a damp wrung out dish cloth so it doesn't dry out and the custard is done once it's cooled down..
Once the dough has risen a second time, divide the dough into 10 portions, form them into balls and let them sit for 10-15 minutes. Cover then with plastic wrap so that they don't dry out..
Next take the cookie dough, divide it into 10 portions and form them into balls..
Now, take the cookie dough and on top of some plastic wrap, roll out the dough into a circle. They should be roughly about 10 cm in diameter..
Once you have rolled out the bread dough itself, place the custard on top and form the dough back into balls. Place the custard toward the bottom of the dough and tightly close it after forming it..
Next place the ball of dough that you just made and place it on top of a rolled out piece of cookie dough..
Take the dough in your hands and form it into a ball. Next with the back of a knife, make lines in the dough and cover with granulated sugar..
Next, arrange the dough on parchment paper, cover it with plastic wrap, and let it rise a second time for 30 minutes..
Bake at 350°F (180°C) for 15 minutes. Once they are done baking, transfer them to a baking rack to cool and they are ready!.
My friends who come over to visit all rave about this..

Our food culture is based on rice, but we also have many kinds of own bread as well like An-pan (sweet bean paste in the bread), Curry-pan, Yakisoba-pan etc… Original Melonpan doesn't have any filling, but it's also nice to put custard cream inside ❤. Custard buns are soft milk bread filled with creamy custard filling in the centers. They are delightful soft buns that make perfect snacks or breakfasts. It may seem to you that I am slathering the blog with bread recipes lately, and I have no argument with that. Learn how to make homemade custard cream (pastry cream) and use it as a delicious filling for popular western sweets like cream puffs and éclairs.