Pan Dulce de Concha

Name: Pan Dulce de Concha
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 500g bread flour; 100g sugar; 7g instant yeast; 3 eggs; 150ml warm milk; 100g butter, softened; 1 tsp vanilla; 150g icing sugar for topping; 80g butter, softened for topping; 150g plain flour for topping

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

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

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

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

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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