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How to Make Sweet Bread Buns

Do you love the taste of Portugese sweet bread? If so, you’ll love this simple recipe for how to make sweet bread buns that are subtly sweet in flavor and soft and tender in texture.

sweet bread buns in a a bowl.

Tasty Sweet Bread Recipe

Naturally our kids absolutely love this sweet bread recipe because of the sweet, dessert-like taste. They even enjoy slathering on a layer of Nutella spread over top to sweeten the flavoring a tad bit more. I can’t say I blame them, although personally, I enjoy spreading soft butter over the warm, freshly baked and mildly sweet buns.

sweet bread bun torn apart

Inspired by the classic Portugese sweet bread and made with a mix of mostly flour, eggs, milk and sugar; these sweet bread buns are great alternative to any meal. We especially love to make these sweet buns along side our pulled pork and for any outdoor BBQ dishes such as our chicken shish kabobs and our grilled pork shoulder.

Ingredients for Making Sweet Bread Buns

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Dough

  • 4 cups all-purpose white flour (unbleached), Robin Hood or NoName brand
  • ¾ cups granulated sugar
  • 3 eggs (at room temperature)
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ½ cup melted butter
  • 1 cup warm milk (hot first then let cool to warm temperature)

Yeast

Glaze

  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp granulated sugar
removing sweet bread buns from muffin tins.

How to Make Sweet Bread Buns

Combine 2 tsp yeast, 1 tsp sugar to ½ cup warm water. Let the yeast mixture sit while preparing the dough.

Using a Stand Mixer with the dough attachment, combine flour, sugar, eggs, salt, melted butter and warm milk.

Add yeast mixture to dough mixture and continue mixing until well blended, approximately 10 minutes.

Remove dough from the mixing bowl and place on a floured surface.

Knead by hand for 3 minutes. The longer you mix, the better the dough will turn out. The dough will have a slightly sticky feel so continue to add flour to your hands and the surface as you knead.

Place dough in a large greased bowl and cover with a paper towel. Leave the dough to rise to double its size, approximately 1 to 1.5 hours.

Remove the dough and equally divide into buns, placing them in a greased muffin tray

Cover and let the dough rise for another ½ hour. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 350F.

Beat 1 tsp sugar and 1 egg together and generously brush the egg mixture over top of the buns.

dough divided and placed inside greased muffin tray for baking

Bake buns for 15-18 minutes. Check with a toothpick before removing to ensure buns cooked through.

More Homemade Bread Recipes

If you’re looking for more delicious bread recipes check out this easy homemade white bread recipe, this easy dinner rolls recipe, or the best moist banana bread recipe.

How to Make Sweet Bread Buns

Jane and Sonja
Recipe for making a dozen deliciously tasty and mildly sweetened sweet bread buns.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 2 hours 20 minutes
Cook Time 18 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Portugese
Servings 12 buns
Calories 262 kcal

Equipment

  • Stand mixer

Ingredients
  

Dough

  • 4 cups flour
  • ¾ granulated sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ½ cup melted butter
  • 1 cup warm milk hot first then let cool to warm temp

Yeast

Glaze

Instructions
 

Preparing the Dough

  • Combine 2 tsp yeast and 1 tsp sugar with 1/2 cup warm water. Let the yeast mixture sit while preparing the dough.
  • Using a Kitchen Stand mixer with the dough attachment, combine flour, sugar, eggs, salt, melted butter and warm milk.
  • Add yeast mixture to dough mixture and continue mixing until well blended, approximately 10 minutes.
  • Remove dough from the mixing bowl and place it on a floured surface.
  • Knead by hand for 3 minutes. The longer you mix, the better the dough will turn out.
  • Place dough in a large greased bowl and cover with a paper towel. Leave the dough to rise to double its size; this takes approximately 1 to 1.5 hours.
  • Remove the dough and divide into equally sized buns, placing them in a greased muffin tray.
  • Cover and let rise for another ½ hour. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 350F.

Making the Glaze

  • Beat 1 tsp sugar and 1 egg together and generously brush the mixture over top of the buns.
  • Bake buns for 15-18 minutes. Check with a toothpick before removing to ensure buns cooked through.

Nutrition

Calories: 262kcalCarbohydrates: 34gProtein: 8gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 77mgSodium: 293mgPotassium: 111mgFiber: 2gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 349IUCalcium: 40mgIron: 2mg
Keyword bread, buns, white bread
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