Cinnamon nut buns

If you love eating bread, I believe you will think about buying a bread maker (or Home Bakery in Japan ^^).

It's very convenient, because you don't have to knead the bread or even own the oven to enjoy freshly baked bread at home.

I received Panasonic automatic bread maker last month, and have so much fun testing it.

You can make simple bread (there are so many recipes, soft bread, quick bread, whole wheat, or French bread) by using the machine programs. Only put everything in the bread maker pan (the yeast will be putted in the yeast dispenser on the top of the lid) select the menu then press start, easy. The yeast dispenser is good idea, because if you put it into the pan directly, it can contact the salt and die before having a chance to create gas. One of the great function (in my opinion) is Panasonic automatic bread maker will adjust the time when making bread from the temperature of the bread, so you will get good texture bread each time that you making it. 

When using bread maker, one important thing is the size of the bread, you can't use more than 300g of flour for this Panasonic automatic bread maker (SD-P104) as too much of the ingredients means different baking time that's not suitable for this machine.
The Panasonic automatic bread maker comes with measuring cup and measuring spoon, and operating instructions (with recipes), so you don't have to worry about the bread recipe that you need for this bread maker. 
There are 13 menus in this machine, 8 for making different kinds of bread, 2 for making dough (bread and pizza dough), 1 for making Dumpling skin dough, 1 for baking cake and the last one is making Nama chocolate (interesting ^^). You can find all of the recipes in the operating instructions.

At Panasonic cooking lab, we had a chance to try different recipes, using bread maker for making simple white bread, cake and kneading dough ^^, (you can see the photos here).
I tried different menu like quick bread, soft bread, and even baking cake (will show you the recipe next time). The timer menu is convenient for people who want to have freshly baked bread in the morning, you only need to put all the ingredients into the bread maker and set the finished time that you want, and go to sleep, hehe.
Anyway, from many menus in this bread maker, I love this one "Pineapple bread/Stuffed bread menu 8" as you can create different bread from the bread maker without using oven ^^. The bread maker will make the dough for you, when the dough ready you can use your imagination to crate fabulous bread to suit your taste. Add the flavour and ingredients that you like, then put the prepared dough back into the bread maker and it will do the rest of the job for you.

* The difference between using bread machine and hand knead
When making bread with bread machine, you don't need to learn the trick and technique for making good bread. Knead by hand is not hard if you make it often, but for some people, it's not easy. Many people use too much flour to prevent the dough to stick thieir hands and end up with hard texture bread, or bad texture because the kneading process is not enough. 
With bread machine you can prevent this problem, you don't need to knead dough by yourself (or don't need to learn to do it). The bread machine kneads bread without adding more flour (as the formula is already calculated), and it will knead until the dough is ready. So using bread machine is the right answer for anyone who want good bread without making an effort ^^

This time I make Cinnamon nut buns, one of my favorite bread, I adjust the recipe to create soft bread, that I think everyone will love it too.

*If you live in Thailand and interest in Panasonic automatic bread maker SD-P104
You can find it in The Mall, Paragon and Emporium 
Central Rama 9 and Robinson 
Siamworachak, Akibahara Srilom, and Sinsiam 
The price is 8,990 Bath with 1 year warranty

Cinnamon nut buns

3.5g (1/2 tbsp) ................................. Instant yeast 

200g .................................................. Bread flour

20g ..................................................... Unsalted butter, soft

36g ..................................................... Granulated sugar

6g ....................................................... Powdered milk

4g ....................................................... Salt

30g .................................................... Egg (beat to combine)

120g ................................................... Cold milk

Filling

10ml .................................................. Milk

100g .................................................. Pecan nuts

1/2tsp ............................................... Cinnamon powder

100g .................................................. Granulated sugar

Topping

80g .................................................... Icing sugar

1-1 1/2tsp .......................................... Milk

Put bread flour, sugar, powdered milk, salt and butter into the bread pan.
Mix the egg and milk together, then pour into the bread pan.
Insert the bread pan into the bread maker.
Close the lid and pour yeast into the yeast dispenser.
Select Pineapple bread/Stuffed bread menu 8 then press start.

Meanwhile, roast the pecan nuts until fragrance (180C about 7-10 minutes or 5 minutes in toaster oven) then coarsely chop.
Mix the sugar and cinnamon powder together.

 

After 55 minutes, remove the dough from the bread maker when the bread maker starts to beep.

Roll the dough into 15x25 cm, coat 3/4 of the dough with milk  and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and chopped pecan nuts.

Roll the dough into cylinder and cut into 4 pieces.

Remove the kneading blade from the bread maker pan, and put the dough into the bread pan. Close the lid, the bread maker will restart automatically.

After finished, remove the bun from the bread maker pan, and let it cool on a wire rack.
Mix the icing sugar and milk together then drizzle over the bun.

Cinnamon nut buns