Bread Machine Hamburger Buns
I love to make these homemade buns for things like French Dip, meatball sandwiches, hamburgers, Maple BBQ Chicken or any dish requiring a nice soft homemade bun
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Place all ingredients in bread pan, select Dough setting, and Start. When dough has risen, the machine will beep. Turn off machine and remove bread pan.
  2. Turn out dough onto a floured countertop or cutting board. Gently roll and shape dough into a 12 inch rope.With a sharp knife, divide dough into 8 pieces for hamburger buns or 12 pieces for hot dog buns.
  3. Grease a baking sheet. Roll pieces of dough into balls and flatten for hamburger buns or shape into 6-inch rolls for hot dog buns. Place on prepared baking sheet.
  4. Cover and let rise in warm oven 10 to 15 minutes until almost doubled. (Hint: To warm oven slightly, turn oven on Warm setting for 2 minutes, then turn it off, and place covered dough in oven to rise. Remove sheet from oven to preheat).
  5. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown. Remove from oven and cool on racks. When ready to use, split buns in half horizontally. (These cook in my oven in 12 minutes, keep an eye on them!)
Recipe Notes

Stacy’s Notes:

  • I have always used the ratio of 2 cups all purpose to 1 cup whole wheat, and have never tried subbing bread flour or any other type of flour.
  • I always use shortening, but I imagine you could substitute vegetable or even olive oil for the shortening.
  • If you make buns, this recipe should yield 6 extra large buns or 8-10 medium to large buns, or at least 12 hot dog buns.
  • I always rise these directly on the pans that I am going to bake them on (I use my Silpats to line my cookie sheets, or you can use parchment paper).  I tried one time to rise on something else and then move them onto a baking sheet or baking stone, and they deflated a lot if you move them, so I would not recommend that.
  • After taking out of the warm oven (first rise), I let them rise another 45 minutes or so (covered, in a warm spot) on the counter before baking.
  • I baked for 12 minutes in my oven at 400 degrees
  • These should freeze well, wrapped well in plastic wrap, for a month or two.

Enjoy!