Ingredients:
★ 190 g Milk
★ 10 g Dry yeast
★ 190 g Bread flour
★ 8 g Salt
★ 220 g Eggs
★ 440 g Bread Flour
★ 250 g Butter
★ 125 g Sugar
★ 100 g Strawberries (sliced)
Directions:
★ First thing you're going to do is combine the milk, yeast, and flour in a bowl and mix. Cover with a towel or some plastic wrap and allow to sit for an hour.
★ After you have allowed that to sit for an hour, combine with your salt, eggs, and bread flour. Mix together until well combined (it'll be sticky), and then place in a mixer. Now, for three minutes you're going to alternatively add your room temperature butter and sugar in until they're both gone. This method of mixing, ladies and gents, is called the modified sponge method. Congrads, you know a term for culinary school now~
★ Now you're going to place your dough in a refrigerated container that will hold twice the size of the dough. Cover, and place in your refrigerator. Allow to set overnight. If you don't, your dough's not going to be as well as blended as the refrigerated one, and therefore not as good and a lot harder to handle. So be patient and just let it fridge!
★ Now, it's a new day. Get out your dough and portion it so that each dough slice is 75 grams each. You're going to "pre-shape" each weighed out portion to a round ball - So flour your surface and then roll each portioned piece to a ball. Allow these to sit under a piece of plastic wrap for about 20 minutes. While you wait, you can spray down some muffin trays with pan-spray so you'll be ready for the next step.
★ Now, stick each ball of dough into your muffin tray till it's filled up. Then you're going to cover your muffin trays with damp towels until your dough has doubled in size. After this happens, flour your thumb really well and then stick it into each dough ball, creating a "doughnut hole" into the center of each one.. Otherwise you'll have a big problem on your hands after this is all said and done. After that's done, stick it in a 350 degree F oven until they're golden brown colored.
★ Take out of the oven, un-mold from the trays, and place them on a cooling rack. Allow for them to cool before icing or powder sugaring.
★ Enjoy!
