Honeycomb Bread
Honeycomb Bread is widespread and delicious baked goodness stuffed with cream cheese, topped with sesame seeds and Nigella seeds, and drizzled with utterly divine honey.
Ingredients
For the Dough
- 2⅔ cups flour
- ¼ cup oil
- ¾ tablespoon yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1½ tablespoons powdered milk optional
- 1 cup warm water or warm milk
For the Egg Wash
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon milk
For the Filling and Topping
- 12 ounces block of cream cheese about 1½ cups
- ⅓ cup honey or more, to taste
- 3 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 3 tablespoons Nigella seeds
Instructions
How to Prepare the Dough?
- Mix 1 cup of flour with the yeast, sugar, salt, baking powder, and powdered milk (if using).
- Once mixed, add the warm water or warm milk and whisk together well until no longer clumpy. Cover it and set it aside in a warm place for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, you should see the mixture look bubbly and frothy.
- Add the remaining 1⅔ cups of flour and the oil. Mix in your stand mixer (or by hand) until smooth and soft dough forms, about 5-7 minutes. Now it’s ready to use.
How to Form and Bake the Honeycomb Bread?
- Divide the dough into 35 mini pieces (this mimics the small honeycomb bread balls) or you could make them larger.
- Cut each brick of cheese into equal pieces, a full block of cheese makes 24 pieces.
- Spray your round or rectangle pan lightly.
- Spread a dough ball into a round flat circle and add the cream cheese to it.
- Close the ends and ball it up and place it into your tray. Repeat until finished.
- Whisk the egg with a tablespoon of milk with a fork and brush it on top of the dough balls.
- Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and nigella seeds and bake at 400℉ for 20-25 minutes or until golden.
- Once out of the oven, immediately drizzle with honey.
Notes
- You can shape the dough larger than the shape I made. For the presentation and mini meze or appetizers, I recommend mini ones like these.
- Instead of normal honey, you could use hot honey for a kick.
- You could use cream cheese in the tub, it might get a little messy.
- Make sure that the cream cheese you add is cold so it can be cut into cubes without spreading.
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