Chocolate Whole Wheat Oats Buns

Sharing a picture of my chocolate whole wheat oats buns that I made for our breakfast.  I added cocoa powder just for fun and stuff a few chocolate chips as filling.  The above picture is the unbaked buns but ready for oven.

This is the baked buns.  Guess I shouldn't decorated the buns with chocolate chips on top as it soften and sort of melted a little when baked in the oven.  Kinda messy for my girls to eat too.  But they loved the chocolate chips as filling!



Ching's Chocolate Whole Wheat Oats Buns

Ingredients:

• 400ml milk (2%, 1% or fat free)
• 2 Tbsp. butter, cut into small cubes
• 5 tsp. granulated cane sugar
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 cup bread flour minus 2 Tbsp. (scoop out 2 Tbsp.)
• 2 Tbsp. specially dark cocoa powder (or normal cocoa powder)
• 1 cup old fashioned oats
• 1 tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. instant yeast
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• Semi-sweet chocolate chips, as needed

Methods:

1.   In your bread maker, add ingredients according to what I listed above except the chocolate chips.  Press to Dough function and let it run its cycle.

2.  After that, take out the dough, punch it and give it a few kneads.  Divide into balls.  Take one ball dough, flatten it and place some chocolate chips inside.  Close it and shape into ball.  Arrange in a butter spray pan (round, square, rectangle, any pan you have).  Finish the rest.  You will need 2 pans.  Let it proves for a second time until double in size, about an hour.

3.  Preheat oven to 375'F.  Bake for 12 minutes.  Cool on wire rack before storing in an air-tight container.  Should remain soft up to 3 days.