When my lovely blogging friends Jenny and Helen announced that they’ll run an online version of The Great British Bake Off – the Great Bloggers Bake Off – I knew that I wanted to get involved. I’m no master baker, in fact I’m not even a regular hobby baker, but I thought that this would be THE chance to get a little more confident in terms of baking. My nan is an avid baker and creates the most beautiful cakes and I’d really love to follow in her footsteps and be able to bake cakes that friends and family enjoy and maybe even want to recreate at home.
The Great Bloggers Bake Off is running for the second week now (I missed week one as I was on holiday, but more on that soon) and this week’s theme was bread. On the show, bakers made bread sticks, English muffins (crumpets) and wowed the judges with their bready showstoppers, but if I am honest, I panicked at the idea of making crumpets and bread sticks seemed a little boring – they’re probably not, if you really can bake, but hey ho. In the end, I decided to go for cheese buns.
When I formed the little bread roll shapes, I thought I had seriously messed them up, but after 12 minutes in the oven, they turned out lovely. Amy liked them so much, that she had two of them before I could even write this post, but try them yourself. Here’s the recipe
Ingredients for 12 small or 6 big cheese buns:
2tbsp dry yeast
1/2 pint warm water
2tbsp sugar
2tbsp garlic powder
50g melted butter
50ml olive oil
dry parsley to taste
375g self-raising flour
1tsp salt
250g grated cheese of your choice
Method:
1. Mix yeast and warm water in a bowl and set aside for a couple of minutes. Then add sugar and garlic powder as well as the melted butter, olive oil and parsley. Slowly fold in a little flower at a time and season with salt
2. Cover the dough with a wet cloth and leave to rise in a warm place, approximately 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 190ºC.
3. Form 12 small rolls or 6 big rolls, sprinkle with cheese and place on a greased baking tray.
4. Bake at 190ºC for about 12-15 minutes or until the bread is golden brown. You want the cheese to be bubbly, they’re cheese buns after all!
will try these next weekend
Good luck and make sure to let me know how you get on with them x
These look very tasty.
They actually were, I was quite proud of myself 😉
Wow, these look delicious! I absolutely love cheese buns- yum!
Cheese buns are my sister’s favourite. I will definitely have to make them for her x
These look lovely
Thank you, I think taking the time to go outside and take a nice photo really made the difference 🙂 x
love cheesy buns thanks so much for linking up to Bake it at The good life mum xx
My pleasure, thanks for hosting x
ooooooh Carolin you spoil me with your cheesey buns! Yummy i think my OH would love these – not sure about the boys but maybe as they love bread and cheese. they really do look yummy scrummy! thank you for joining in 🙂 xx
Amy loves them, I think I will have to make them again. They were really quick to make as well, so it’s not that I stood in the kitchen for hours 🙂
Love the look of you buns!
*fnarr fnarr*
Seriously though, they look super x
Haha, I knew someone would say that. Why am I not surprised that it was you? 😉
I am a sucker for cheese bread, which means there’s no hope for me in the land of kase brezen! These look delicious! 🙂
Haha true, you can get these on every corner 😉
These look delicious! When am I coming for dinner again 😉
Whenever you want my lovely and you can even stay for breakfast – in the loft room with Penny 😉 x
Perfect lunch box recipe – thanks for that. I’ve missed the first 2 as I was away but I want to be in on the next one for sure – see you there
Oh I’m scared of this week. The theme calls for something pretty and dainty – not sure I can pull that one off x
Yum, I love cheesy rolls!
Me too, but only if they are not to overpowering x
Oh these look tasty. Sounds like a good choice. I found making bread really hard. I would try again though, I think.
I was worried that these wouldn’t turn out how promised in the recipe, especially as the dough had quite a funny consistency when I formed the rolls, but once they came out of the oven they seemed perfectly fine x
Oh I definitely want to have a go at making these, yummy. Mich x
Inexpensive too, these can be quite expensive in the shops.
I was also going to say perfect back to school lunch box filler – look fantastic.
Ohhhhh lovely! Thanks for sharing! I love anything cheesey – like cheese scones – so I will have to follow your recipe!
They do look delicious!
Oh those look so good! And squishy! I’ve never managed to make bread that doesn’t have a hard crust – how do you do that?! I’m getting back into bread making so I’ll give these a go.
They look lovely. I really like cheesy bread. x
Salivating, love love love cheese buns and the idea of the blogger bake off!
I baked these yesterday afternoon and have just finished the last one this morning for breakfast! So cheesy and tasty! Thank you!
So glad you liked them. And really easy, aren’t they?
Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesday too, wow these look amazing! Definitely would go wheaty to eat these! x
your cheesy buns look fab & I love that they are so quick!
look forward to seeing your future creations!
x
These look great, love cheese in baked goods 🙂
You’re making me so hungry!!! I want these with mature cheese, pickle and crunchy salad right now *drools* Thanks for linking this up with #recipeoftheweek. Pinned and stumbled + there’s a new linky live now. Please come and join in!
these sound utterly delicious! i’ve bookmarked these to bake very soon x
I’ve made a note of this recipe (to try when I get the chance) – being a busy mum, I like quick easy recipes.
Your cheese buns look so good hon! I must give them a try this weekend!
Thank you for linking up with the #FridayFoodie