How to Make Perfect Conchas (Mexican sweet bread)

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Conchas (Mexican sweet bread) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Conchas (Mexican sweet bread) is something that I have loved my entire life.

All Reviews for Conchas (Mexican Sweet Bread). Conchas (Mexican Sweet Bread). this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Conchas are a soft and sweet Mexican bread with a white topping that resembles the surface of a seashell. This is where the concha gets its name, since "concha" means "shell" in Spanish.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have conchas (mexican sweet bread) using 15 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Conchas (Mexican sweet bread):

1. Make ready active dry yeast
2. Make ready warm water (105°-115°F)
3. Get lukewarm milk (scalded then cooled)
4. Get granulated sugar
5. Take butter (softened)
6. Get salt
7. Take egg
8. Take all-purpose flour (possibly 4 cups)
9. Prepare flavored topping dough
10. Get granulated sugar
11. Make ready butter (or margarine)
12. Take all-purpose flour
13. Make ready ground cinnamon
14. Take vanilla
15. Prepare orange zest

While concha in English translates to seashell. Makes sense given that conchas look like seashells! When I moved back to California after I graduated college, I realized I literally knew nothing about Mexican food. These sweet and fluffy Conchas are one of the most popular types of pan dulce in Mexican bakeries!

Instructions to make Conchas (Mexican sweet bread):

1. Dissolve yeast in warm water in large bowl.
2. Stir in milk, sugar, butter, salt, egg and 2 cups of the flour
3. Beat until smooth.
4. Stir in enough remaining flour to make dough easy to handle.
5. Turn onto a lightly floured surface.
6. Knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes.
7. Place in a large greased bowl, then turn greased side up.
8. Cover and let rise in a warm place until double, about 1 1/2 hours. The dough is ready if it leaves an indentation when touched.
9. Meanwhile, prepare Flavored Topping Dough. Refer to step 12
10. Once your concha bread dough has rised, Punch dough down; divide into 12 equal pieces.
11. Shape each piece into a ball place on greased cookie sheet.
12. FLAVORED TOPPING DOUGH: Beat sugar and margarine until light and fluffy.
13. Topping Dough: Stir in flour until mixture is the consistency of thick paste.Divide into 3 equal parts.
14. Topping Dough: Stir cinnamon into one part, vanilla extract (coconut extract is delicious as well) into one part and orange zest into another part. I like to also color the vanilla and orange zest parts with food coloring the cinnamon part will be brown on its own.
15. Divide each part of topping dough into 4 equal pieces. (So you should have twelve all together)
16. Pat each piece into a 3-inch circle.Place 1 circle of Topping Dough on each ball of dough, shaping it down over the ball.
17. Make 5 or 6 cuts across the topping, using a table knife, to form a shell pattern. Cover and let rise until double about 40 minutes.
18. Heat oven to 375°F. Bake buns until golden brown, about 20 minutes.

When I moved back to California after I graduated college, I realized I literally knew nothing about Mexican food. These sweet and fluffy Conchas are one of the most popular types of pan dulce in Mexican bakeries! To this day, someone always brings a bag of assorted Mexican sweet breads from a local bakery on Sundays for dessert and at least half of the bread in there is conchas. I have conchas to share with you today! These babies were a labor of love.

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