Elephant-Shaped Ham and Cheese Rolls
- 135 grams Bread flour
- 15 grams Cake flour
- 3 grams Dry yeast
- 80 ml Milk
- 1 grams Salt
- 15 grams Sugar
- 10 grams Butter
- 25 grams Egg
- 280 grams or use your favorite dough that has risen 1 time
- 46 grams) (Dough per roll:
- 6 slice Sliced ham
- 1 slice Sliced cheese
- 6 pieces Raisins
- 1 Beaten egg to glaze the rolls
- Cut the slice of cheese into 6 pieces.
- Cut each slice of ham in half and then divide the left half into half again.
- Place a piece of cheese on top of a large piece of ham, then top with a small piece of ham and finally a larger piece of ham.
- Make 6 of these.
- In a bowl, mix all the ingredients together except for the butter.
- Then add the butter and mix well.
- Bring the dough together and knead well.
- Let the dough rise for the first time using the proofing mode of your oven until the dough has doubled in size.
- After the 1st rising is done, divide the dough it into 6 pieces and leave it to rest for 10 minutes.
- Roll out each piece of dough into an oval shape and place the stacked ham and cheese from step 2 on the upper half.
- Make sure to leave enough space on the left side.
- Take the lower part of the dough and fold it over, then firmly seal the seams closed.
- Press down gently from the top and cut the lower left part of the dough in a triangular shape.
- Be careful not to cut through the ham here.
- On the right side, make a small cut to make a tail.
- Combine the previously cut left over dough and roll them together into a ball.
- Flatten the ball into an oval shape and cut it into two pieces.
- Place on the elephant shapes to form the ears.
- Make the eyes by poking holes with chopsticks.
- Place the formed dough on a baking tray and let the dough rise for the second time (for about 30-40 minutes) using the proofing mode of your oven.
- Once the dough has risen, start preheating the oven immediately.
- Brush the dough with beaten eggs to glaze them, and press raisins into the holes you made for the eyes.
- Bake for 12 minutes in a preheated oven at 180C.
- You can bake a performing circus elephant.
- So cute.
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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/146668-elephant-shaped-ham-and-cheese-rolls (may not work)