Roti Boy / Mexican Coffee Buns
Roti Boy / Mexican Coffee Buns

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, roti boy / mexican coffee buns. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Roti Boy / Mexican Coffee Buns is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Roti Boy / Mexican Coffee Buns is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Mexican Coffee Bun (Rotiboy) - Sweet bun with coffee topping and butter filling. It's popular in Malaysia and Asia. For the Mexican coffee bun recipe, I turned to my contributor Siew Loon.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have roti boy / mexican coffee buns using 24 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Roti Boy / Mexican Coffee Buns:
  1. Make ready A. Coffee Topping
  2. Get 200 g softened butter
  3. Prepare 160 g icing sugar
  4. Take 3 lightly beaten eggs
  5. Take 2 tbsp coffee essence - highly recommended
  6. Get (Or use 1tbsp hot water + 2 tbsp coffee)
  7. Take 1/4 tsp - 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon
  8. Take 200 g flour
  9. Take B. Filling #1 (salty & buttery)
  10. Get 17 small cubes of salted butter (10g each)
  11. Get C. Filling #2 (sweet & salty)
  12. Get 200 g Salted butter
  13. Make ready 30 g soft dark brown sugar
  14. Make ready Pinch salt
  15. Get D. For the Bun
  16. Take 270 ml water
  17. Prepare 8 g active dry yeast (2 1/4 tsp)
  18. Prepare 1 lightly beaten egg
  19. Get 75 g castor sugar (3tbsp)
  20. Get 500 g bread flour
  21. Make ready 20 g milk powder (2 1/2 tbsp)
  22. Get 1 tsp salt
  23. Get 5 g bread improver (1 tsp)
  24. Make ready 60 g softened butter

Also a copycat of Pappa Roti. These are delicious and so different- Not really Mexican, they are from Malaysia. It is like a thin coffee butter cookie spread over the bun. When you bite into these the outside is crisp while the inside is soft and buttery.

Instructions to make Roti Boy / Mexican Coffee Buns:
  1. A. Coffee Topping - cream butter and sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy. Then add beaten eggs. Mix again. Next, add coffee essence & ground cinnamon. Stir to combine. Then, Sift in flour and mix until well-combined. You’ll have a paste. Transfer this mixture to a pastry piping bag with round tip attached to it. Into the fridge until ready to use.
  2. B. Filling #1 - cube salted butter and keep in the fridge before using.
  3. C. Filling #2 - cream butter, sugar & pinch of salt. Keep in the fridge before using. Scoop generous amount of this mixture onto flatten dough (if using) & seal neatly.
  4. D. For the Bun - In a bowl, mix yeast, egg, water and sugar. Leave to proof for 5-10mins. Next, Place flour, milk powder and salt in a bowl of a stand mixer with attached dough hook. Add proofed yeast mixture. Mix until well combined using low speed. Then, add butter and mix for another 5 minutes until dough is soft and pliable.
  5. Remove dough from mixing bowl and keep kneading by hand for another 10mins until dough is stretchy and not breaking when stretched. (Refer to my previous Roti Boy recipe's note on how to check if dough is ready). cover dough & let it rest for 30mins or double in size.
  6. Divide dough into equal portions. I like mine small for kids lunch box, so my balls weigh around 45g each. Lightly Roll each portion into a ball. Do not press or knead dough so much at this point. Then cover and set aside for 10 minutes.
  7. After 10mins, Next, flatten each dough and place a cube of hard butter into the center of the dough. Gather the edges and pinch to seal. Lightly roll buns into balls and place on a greased baking tray. Proof buns for at least 45 minutes. Cover with greased cling film.
  8. 10mins before baking, preheat oven to 160-170°C.
  9. Next, pipe the topping in a spiral pattern onto the buns. Bake at 160-170°C for 15 minutes or until the buns are lightly brown. Note: different oven has different temperature so adjust oven accordingly when baking. Serve warm.

Have tried quite a few recipes for these Mexican Coffee Buns (aka Roti Boy. I was among those who would queue to buy these buns when they were in I simply love the coffee aroma of the buns.) All the recipes yield yummy buns but a few fall short somewhere, either the topping is too liquid or would. First marketed as Mexican coffee buns, they consist of a leavened dough that is filled with butter and topped with a layer of coffee-infused buttercream. Nowadays, the franchise has spread throughout Asian and Arab countries, and their signature bun is better known as rotiboy or roti kopi. These are pillowy soft, butter flavored sweet buns with a crispy coffee flavored topping and butter filling.

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