Baked concha’s for the first time 😋🐚🩷

They look amazing! 🤤

Recipe
I watched a bunch of videos on how to make them and read a bunch and took small portions of each to make the ones I ended up with. Most recipes are similar so I’m sure if you use one from a website they’ll turn out great.

You can make 10-16 concha’s with the recipe it just depends on how big you want them.

For the concha dough

510 grams of bread flour,
125 grams of sugar,
8 grams of instant yeast,
A pinch of salt,
A stick of unsalted butter (cubed) (vegan butter works too),
2 large eggs (100 ml) (there are vegan alternatives to eggs in recipes but I’m not sure which to use yet, maybe aquafaba could work 🤔),
4ml (or 5ml) of vanilla extract (you could use other extracts to experiment with flavors),
125 ml of warm milk (soy milk works too),

For the sugar dough

I used 100 grams of butter (Crisco works too),
100grams of confectioners sugar,
100 grams of flour (I use bread flour but you can you regular all-purpose flour too),
and if you want chocolate use 4-6 grams of cocoa powder,
for pink I used freeze dried strawberry ground up into a powder with a little food coloring or you can use strawberry nesquick powder,
for white I added the smallest amount of cinnamon just to add a little spice.

I used my hands for the whole process because I don’t have a strong stand mixer but if you have a stand mixer with a bread hook you can use that lol.

Steps

-mix the dry ingredients well and then add The cubed butter until well combined and feels kinda like sand.

-then add the eggs and vanilla and mix it roughly with your hands just to get it somewhat combined. It’ll be sticky and stuck to your hand that’s means you’re doing it right. Now add half the milk in and combine well before adding the rest (you might need to use more milk or less depending on your flour). Mix it for about 5-10 minutes— you’ll know when it’s done if the dough is only slightly sticky but soft. It should be stretchy.

-now place it in a greased bowl. Place plastic wrap over the dough and a kitchen towel over the bowl. Place in a warm place for 1-2 hours and let it rise until it looks double its original size. (It’s cold where I live in New Jersey rn so I had to preheat the oven to 100 degrees Fahrenheit for 5 minutes and then turn the oven off and leave it open for 3-4 minutes to let it cool down a little. I also place the bowl with the dough into another bowl with warm water (kinda like a Maria bath) to keep the dough slightly humid. Then place it in the oven until it rises- make sure the oven is off before placing it in though)

-after the dough rises take it out the bowl and divide it into 10 (you can make 10-16 concha’s just divide the dough into the amount you want.) equal portions and place them on a greased baking tray with a good amount of space between them. Spread a small amount of butter over each dough ball so that the sugar dough sticks on top. You also want to divide the sugar dough into pieces so you can place them on top of the concha dough.

-now for the sugar dough divide it into 10 (make the same amount as you did with the concha dough) equal parts and roll into a ball use a tortilla press to make flat circles. Now place the flat sugar dough and press it firmly on top of the concha dough. Use a sharp knife to slice only the sugar dough to make the markings on top.

-now let them rest for one to two hours in a warm spot with a kitchen towel placed gently on top. Once they’ve doubled in size you’re ready to bake.

-preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit and place them in for 20- 25 minutes until the edges of the dough look slightly golden. (I put a small pan of water at the bottom of my oven to keep it a little humid in the oven.)

-and now after you take them out the oven let them cool down a bit and enjoy!!!!

-sorry if this recipe doesn’t make sense or it’s hard to follow I’m writing this down from memory lol.

My FAVORITE pastry ever! They look great!

Perfect, now you only hot chocolate

Gimme

Those are legit good they look like from my local Mexican bakery well done

These look perfect!

I love Pan Dulce

Commenting for recipe. They look great

Look at those amazing colors!

Conchas are my favorite. My favorite thing on Saturday morning is to heat one up and eat it in bed.

[All I can say is this](https://giphy.com/gifs/OVT7dpga3Ve3i2tTBE)

Love this, makes me happy.

These look perfect 👌

These look so delicious!

¡Qué rico!

Oh my god — salivating 🤤

First time? WOW great job they look great

Wow!!!! 🎉🎉🎉