Jamaican Sugar Bun
The Recipe For This Sweet Treat!

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Jamaican Sugar Bun Recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 5 eggs
• 1 cup warm milk (I used coconut milk)
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp yeast
• 3 tbsp soften butter

PROCEDURE

• Step 1: Add a cup of warm milk to your mixer. Along with ⅓ cup of sugar and 1tsbp of salt and combine these ingredients. 


• Step 2. Add 2 tablespoons of yeast to 3½ cups of all-purpose flour and slowly add it to your liquid mixture. 


• Step 3: Beat 3 eggs and add them slowly to the mixture as well. Followed by ¼ cup of melted butter. Continue mixing until a dough is formed. If your dough becomes slightly too soft, add a small amount of flour until it gets the desired thickness.


• Step 4: Put your dough in a greased pan to rest. Rub butter over the dough and cover the container with cling wrap. The dough will be ready in an hour but it can be left overnight just the same. 


• Step 5: On a flat, floured surface and using a floured rolling pin flatten the dough into a square (30x30 in), trimming the ends to make a perfect square. 


• Step 6: Cover the surface of the dough with a butter knife. Then, modestly cover the surface of the dough with brown sugar, make sure to get the corners as well.


• Step 7: Now it is time to roll your dough into a log, similar to a swiss roll. This will give your sugar bun the delicious sugary rolls we all love. 


• Step 8: Cut your dough into quarters and then cut them into pinwheels about an inch in thickness. You should be able to see individual layers in each cross-section.


• Step 9: Add them to a greased baking pan.


• Step 10: After you’ve done this, the next step is to brush the dough with egg wash. Beat your two remaining eggs to make the egg wash.


• Step 11: Add more sugar to the sides of the buns facing up, you can use as much as you wish. Don’t go overboard now!


• Step 12: Cover with cling wrap or a dishcloth and allow it to rest for an hour. 


• Step 13: Put them in the oven for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.

 When they are done, brush them again, this time with melted butter. Your delicious Sugar Buns are now ready. You can have them with cheese, milk, or on their own.

Icing Recipe

INGREDIENTS

• Egg Whites
• Icing powder
• Vanilla Extract

PROCEDURE

1. Sift your sugar twice and put half your amount in a large bowl.


2. Whisk your eggs very lightly and add a little at a time, along with the vanilla extract to the icing sugar while mixing.


3. Usually, you would mix until the mixture becomes stiff and put it on cakes. However, you want your icing to be a little syrupy to have it drizzled on your sugar buns, so in this case, you wouldn’t mix until it is still but until it becomes a syrup but not too runny.

 Using a spoon, drizzle as much as desired over your sugar buns and enjoy.

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