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Pan Dulce de Concha

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Pan Dulce de Concha

Mexico's beloved sweet bread with a crunchy sugar crust scored in a shell pattern. Scoring the shell pattern into the topping paste before it goes in the oven gives concha its signature cracked, shell-like crust once baked.

Total time
50 min
Prep
30 min
Cook
20 min
Difficulty
medium
Cuisine
Mexican
vegetarian

Ingredients

500gbread flour
100gsugar
7ginstant yeast
3eggs
150mlwarm milk
100gbutter, softened
1 tspvanilla
150gicing sugar for topping
80gbutter, softened for topping
150gplain flour for topping

Instructions

1

Mix flour, sugar, yeast, eggs, milk, butter and vanilla into a dough. Knead 10 minutes. Prove 1 hour.

2

Mix topping: icing sugar, butter and flour into a paste.

3

Shape dough into 12 balls. Press topping circles on top. Score a shell pattern.

4

Prove 45 minutes. Bake at 180°C for 18 minutes until lightly golden.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories
956
Protein
22.8g
Fat
43.5g
Carbs
118.6g
Fiber
3.8g
Sodium
78mg

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