Easy Homemade Hot Dog Buns

Easy Homemade Hot Dog Buns

Easy Homemade Hot Dog Buns

These Easy Homemade Hot Dog Buns are perfectly soft and delicious! The dough is super versatile and can be used to make hot dog buns, subs, or hamburger buns. I provide tips and explain the basics to help you get perfect results every time, with this hot dog bun recipe!

Step by step instructions to make soft, perfect homemade hot dog buns. Now you can also make delightfully soft and milky hot dog bread with this New England hot dog bun recipe, perfect for Maine lobster rolls.

Make a softer, more buttery and milky variation of this with my New England Hot Dog Buns recipe. 

There’s a saying that the noblest of all dogs is the hot dog, because it feeds the hand that bites it. It may also be the most popular dog in America this time of year.

Although hot dogs were not on our menu this past fourth of July weekend, we enjoyed quite a few the week before, with these delicious, soft, easy Homemade Hot Dog Buns that I made.

I think that being able to handle and bake dough that’s versatile enough to be hot dogs, subs, or hamburger buns is a basic yet fantastic skill to have. This hot dog bread is easily one of my favorite homemade bread recipes!

So, to all my American readers, how was your fourth?

Store-bought vs homemade hot dog buns

Hotdog buns 

It’s easy to find hot dog buns anywhere, but not all of them taste the same. Supermarket hot dog buns are generally,

Too hard or dense

Collapse and disappear in your mouth

Have too many chemicals to increase shelf-life

Have an artificial taste

I do love my bread buns to be soft, but no one wants buns that are so flimsy that they simply dissolve in your mouth?

After a particularly disappointing experience with magical, disappearing hot dog buns at a local chili dog establishment, I started making my own hot dog buns at home.

And thanks to my husband’s killer chili, and good sausages, we’ve never been disappointed in chili dogs or hot dogs ever since!

A quick and easy hot dog buns recipe

These buns are so soft, and they stay soft the next day and the day after, but they are strong enough to hold up under even the thickest of hot dogs and sausages. They are fluffy and deliciou

Course: Breakfast/Lunch/DinnerCuisine: AmericanKeyword: bread, buns Prep Time: 15minutes minutesCook Time: 15minutes minutesResting Time: 50minutes minutesTotal Time: 1hour hour 20minutes minutes Servings: 8 rolls Calories: 242.2kcal

Ingredients

2 teaspoons yeast

2 tablespoons sugar

1 cup milk warm

2¾ cups flour

½ tsp Salt

2 eggs

3 Tbsp butter Melted

Instructions

Mix the yeast, 1 teaspoon sugar, and warm milk and leave to proof—about 5 minutes.

Combine two and a half cups of flour, the remaining sugar, and salt. Mix well.

Add the proofed yeast, one egg, and melted butter, and use a sturdy spoon to mix until everything comes together in a rough, shaggy mass of dough.

Cover with a plastic wrap or a tight-fitting lid and leave to rest for five minutes.

Remove the lid, turn the dough to a lightly floured work surface and knead, gradually adding the leftover quarter cup of flour – your dough will still be soft, but don’t be tempted to add more flour.

Return the dough  the bowl and grease the surface with a bit of oil or melted butter, cover with a plastic wrap or a tight-fitting lid, and leave to rest for 30 minutes.

Punch down the dough to remove any trapped air and transfer it back to a lightly floured work surface.

Divide the dough into eight pieces, roll each out about 6 inches long, and pinch down the sides and ends.

Place the buns, seam-side down, on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Make the egg wash by whisking one egg, then brush the buns with the egg wash.

Cover the loaves and leave them to rise for 15minutes. They should become nicely puffy.

Place in a 350F preheated oven and bake for 12 to 15 minutes.

Notes

Measure the flour by gently scooping it into a cup, then use the dull side of a table knife to sweep off the excess.

Nutrition

Serving: 0g | Calories: 242.2kcal | Carbohydrates: 37.6g | Protein: 7.2g | Fat: 6.8g | Saturated Fat: 3.7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1.8g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 55.9mg | Sodium: 207.6mg | Potassium: 115.7mg | Fiber: 1.4g | Sugar: 4.6g | Vitamin A: 240IU | Vitamin C: 0.003mg | Calcium: 51.7mg | Iron: 2.2mg

If you liked this recipe, don’t forget to check out my Loaded chili Dog—another tasty treat worth trying!

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