Mickey Mouse Buns

Photo: Sandeea Cocina

Ingredients

Buns:

170 milliliters milk room temperature

100 grams sugar

2 tablespoons honey

120 grams butter, softened

40 grams fresh yeast

4 eggs (200 g)

550 grams strong wheat flour

1 teaspoon salt

Buttercream:

140 grams sugar

70 milliliters water

250 grams butter, softened

Preparation

Rub yeast and combine with flour in a large bowl. Add milk, eggs, sugar, honey, and salt, and mix until well combined. Add butter, and keep on mixing.When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly greased surface (it is a quite sticky dough), and knead with greased hands until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. Here you'll find a video showing how to knead a sweet dough by Bertinet, in case it is the first time you knead. Shape into a ball, and let the dough rest in the same bowl you've used before until it has doubled its size, it will take from 1 to 2 hours.

Divide dough into equal pieces. Then divide each pice into 3 pieces: a big one for the head, and two smaller ones for the ear.s Shape into smooth balls, and place on a greased baking sheet, forming Mickey Mouse's head. Ears should be about 0,5 cm away from the head, they will get together when the dough rises. Let it rest for 30 minutes.

Preheat oven 200 ºC (400ºF). Milk wash the buns, and bake for 10 minutes at 180ºC. Let them cool on a wire rack.

Prepare the buttercream. Heat water and sugar in a casserole, until it begins to boil. Let this sugar syrup cool. Cream butter, and beat on medium speed while gradually adding the syrup, until light and fluffy. Fill the buns with the buttercream and enjoy!