Chocolate Chips Bun

Using the recipe I baked recently for the Hot Cross Buns and the balance toppings from them, I decided to modify the recipe by changing it to chocolate chips. Hoping that these buns would attract the girls more.

 To make the chocolate dough, I had added 1 tsp of chocolate emulco and added some chocolate chips to the dough. But I would suggest to add tne chocolate chips into the dough ONLY after the 1st proofing as we would need to knead on the dough before and after the 1st proofing. Otherwise the chocolate chips would melt a little and it would be rather unmanageable.

 As you could see in my picture below, I had added the chocolate chips before the 1st proofing and ended up with the uneven round dough.

 Fortunately, some of the "round" dough did proofed up a little nicer than the rest...hehehe....

Using the balance topping, I had also used about 1 tsp of chocolate emulco. Piped it around the dough.

  And here, specially chosen the most decent looking chocolate chips bun I had baked tonight.

These buns did not really captured my girls' attention except for Nat. She said it was delicious. And surprisingly, hubby told me it was great and he had asked me for another one... As for me, I did liked them as well.

These buns were soft and with the chocolate chips too..., yum yum yum...:))

Using the same recipe from the Hot Cross Buns with my own modifications.