Beautiful Burger Buns

Again, lots of love and goes out to King Arthur Flour. Their website has some of the BEST bread recipes and this is no exception. I had never made hamburger buns before, but they're really not that much different than making a regular loaf of bread or rolls. Simply mix and kneed the dough, allow it to double in size, gently deflate and form into 3" rounds that are 1" thick (as you can see, I didn't do so well making them evenly sized). Then you let those rise for another hour, brush with egg wash and sprinkle with sesame seeds then bake at 375 degrees for 12-15 minutes. The recipe for these buns can be found here. I made spicy hamburgers which were great on these slightly sweet buns and we've used the rest of them as sandwich bread this week.

The best sandwich bread...ever...

I love bread and when it comes to bread, no one does it better than King Arthur Flour. I signed up for their eNewsletter several months ago and one of them referenced Walter Sands bread. Walter Sands was the owner and president of King Arthur Flour from 1943 to 1968. He created the bread recipe and made it every week. I decided to give it a shot a few weeks ago and haven't turned back to store bought bread since. You can find the recipe for a 9" loaf in their baking banter blog. I replace 1/4 cup of the all-purpose flour with 1/4 cup of potato flour to keep the loaf moist and kneed it using my kitchen aid mixer. I highly recommend the bowl scraper mentioned in the blog too!