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Yakitate Abunai! recipe - Making it

How to make your own delicious melonpan! (part 2)

Written on 01/02/2012 by Patrick Bregman

In my previous post I told you what the ingredients for melonpan are. In this post, let's take a look at how you actually make both doughs! If you missed the ingredients post, it's here: Yakitate Abunai! recipe - Ingredients

Putting it all together

So, now that you have all the ingredients ready it's time to start making some melonpan! But, before doing that, let me give you just one tip. It is the easiest to make this with two people, one for the cookie dough and one for the bread dough. This about halves the time to make the doughs, because you can make two of them together.

Bread dough

Alright, let's make that bread dough! Start of by putting the flour on the workbench (or wherever you're making it), and make a crater in it.

Then, put the yeast on the outside of the flour crater to make sure it doesn't get wet when you add the water.

The next step is to add all the other dry ingredients. But before you can do that, you need to knead the butter and the sugar together, this'll make it easier for you in a bit. After you've kneaded the sugar and butter, you can add that and the salt and milk powder to the inside of the crater. After this you can add a bit of water and mix everything by slowly adding more and more of the flour to the mix on the inside of the crater. Keep adding water until everything is mixed together.

After you've done this, you should have something that looks like the picture below. When you have this, keep kneading it to make more gluten in it. You can pull the dough apart and see if you can see through it (without breaking it). If you can, it's done! Next thing that needs to be done is to add the stuffing (the chocolate, fruit, jam/marmalade or what you are going to use for it). To add this, first split your dough up into as many pieces as you had ingredients for. Next, flatten the pieces of dough, put the stuffing on top of it, and make a ball out of it while making sure the stuffing stays inside.

The finished dough should look something like the picture below. For now, put it aside and make the cookie dough!

Cookie dough

To make the cookie dough, first make sure you have everything ready and get a bowl to mix everything. When you have that, start by kneading the butter and the sugar together. When you've done this, put the kneaded butter in the bowl and add bits of the egg while mixing it.

Mix the butter/sugar with little bits of egg

Next step, add the flour to the mix. Keep mixing it so it gets nice and mixed together!

If you've mixed everything together it should look like the picture below. When you have this, make as much pieces of cookie dough as you have bread dough.

Final steps

So, now you have your cookie dough and your bread dough. And if you did everything correctly, there should even be the same amount of cookie and bread doughs. What's next is actually pretty easy. Flatten the cookie doughs (I recommend using a rolling pin) and put them around the bread dough. This should entirely cover the bread dough. If it was thick enough you can try making nice shapes in the cookie dough.

After this, preheat the oven on 180 ºC. When the temperature is right, put the melonpan in for 15 to 20 minutes. You can of course stay in front of your oven and watch what happens, but you can also pick up a nice manga or book and read a bit to spend some time. When it's done, get them out of the oven, let then cool down a bit and try them!

The bigger picture

You can find bigger pictures in my Flickr album Yakitate Abunai!. The pictures were taken by me, the caption was done by Ellen. Thanks Ellen!

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