Honeycomb Bread

Honeycomb Bread

Soft, fluffy bread shaped like a honeycomb.

A soft, airy bread shaped like a honeycomb.

Like pull-apart bread rolls.

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cups (300 ml) Milk
  • 1 tbsp Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Yeast
  • 5 cups (600 g) Flour
  • 1/2 cup (50 g) Cornstarch
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 2 Egg whites
  • 1 tea cup (50 ml) Vegetable oil
  • 50 g Butter
  • 300 g Kashkaval cheese
  • 200 g Mortadella

Instructions

  1. In a bowl, mix the warm milk with the sugar and yeast until dissolved, then leave the mixture until the yeast activates.
  2. In another bowl, mix the flour with the cornstarch and salt.
  3. Add the milk and yeast mixture to the bowl containing the dry ingredients.
  4. Add the egg whites and vegetable oil to the bowl.
  5. Knead the ingredients well until the dough comes together.
  6. Add the butter to the dough and knead until it is absorbed.
  7. Place the dough in a warm oven to rise until doubled in size.
  8. Divide the dough into pieces.
  9. Roll out each piece of dough.
  10. Place the kashkaval cheese and mortadella filling inside the dough.
  11. Shape the pieces into balls and arrange them again in the baking tray.
  12. Leave the pieces in the tray to rise a second time.
  13. Turn on the oven from both the top and bottom, then place the tray in the oven on a slightly lower rack.
  14. Once the pieces begin to color, remove the tray from the oven.
  15. Brush the top with butter after baking.

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