Melon Pan Toast tastes just like Melon Pan, but it’s so much easier to make it with only 5 simple ingredients. Melon Pan (メロンパン) is a popular Japanese sweet bread, and it’s found everywhere in Japan from bakeries to convenience stores. Soft white Japanese milk bread is covered with a thin cookie crust on top, and the signature grid lines on the surface resembles a melon even though the flavor is nothing like melon. Homemade melon pan is very tasty of course, but it’s quite time consuming to make it from scratch. If you have a sudden craving for a melonpan, try this much simpler version! You will have a scrumptious melonpan-like toast ready in 10 minutes!
Melon Pan Toast
Ingredients
- 2 slices Shokupan or sliced bread
- 2 tbsp salted butter (room temperature)
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar (divided)
- 4 tbsp cake flour or all purpose flour (1/4 cup)
- 1/8 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Mix soft butter at room temperature and 1 tbsp sugar in a small bowl. Add vanilla and mix well. Add the flour and mix until smooth.
- Spread the butter mixture on the surface of the bread. Score with a knife diagonally in a grid pattern. Sprinkle the rest of the sugar and toast in the oven or bake at 350F until lightly browned.
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