Melon Bread Cookie Dough. Melon Pan is sweet bread covered in a thin layer of crisp biscuit/cookie crust with grid line pattern on top. The Japanese word for bread is "pan (パン) Other theories on the origin of the name says the word "melon" comes from "meringue (メリンゲ)", which is placed on top of the bread dough before. Today, I'm going to be making, Japanese Melon pan.

Melon-pan is another popular traditional Japanese snack bread. A typical melon-pan is made of a bread dough covered with a thin layer of a cookie dough. The name comes from the melon like appearance, such as a cantaloupe. You can cook Melon Bread Cookie Dough using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Melon Bread Cookie Dough

Prepare 100 grams of Butter.
It's 60 grams of Sugar.
You need 2 of Eggs.
You need 6 of drops Vanilla oil.
You need 275 grams of Cake flour.

These melon bread rolls, or "melonpan," are my family's absolute favourite. I make them for my son who loves melonpan. To prevent the cookie dough from cracking when it's baked: -When you are rolling out the cookie dough with a rolling pin, make sure the middle part is thick and the edges are. Extra soft melon bread coated with cookie dough is an excellent bakery product for serving as desserts.

Melon Bread Cookie Dough step by step

Sift the cake flour. Mix the eggs and vanilla oil together well..
Return the butter to room temperature to soften it, then mix well with the sugar until it turns white..
Add in the egg a bit at a time and mix well between each turn to keep it from separating..
Mix in the cake flour over 3 turns. Please mix while kneading well in order to turn this into a hard-to-break dough..
After it has all gathered up, knead it tightly into a ball while stretching the dough out in your hand..
Divide the dough 50 g balls and place in a shallow dish. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit in the fridge for about an hour..
Place into a plastic bag if you won't be using it right away, place into a ziplock bag on top of that, and freeze it. Let it unthaw naturally when you are ready to use it..
Sandwich the cookie dough in plastic wrap and roll it out thinly. Wrap the cookie dough around the rolled up bread dough and coat in granulated sugar. Cut a lattice pattern with a knife and then please bake it..

The extra soft bread dough is coated with a thin layer of crunchy cookie dough. You can make homemade melon pan (as it is also spelled) with simple baking tips. To test if it is done, poke a hole in the center of the dough with your finger. Roll each out into a flat disk shape. This melon bread is absolutely exquisite.