for 14 pieces

Dough

500 g	white flour
1 ½ tsp	salt
50 g	sugar
½ cube	yeast, crumbled
50 g	butter, cut into pieces
3 dl	milk

Filling

60 g	black sesame seeds, roasted
100 g	butter, soft
2 tbsp	liquid honey

To shape

a little

white flour

To bake

2 tbsp	liquid honey
1 tsp	water

How it's done

Dough

In a bowl, mix the flour with all the other ingredients up to and including the yeast. Add the butter and milk, mix, knead to form a soft, smooth dough. Cover and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1½ hrs. until doubled in size.

Filling

Blitz the sesame seeds in a food processor to make a paste. (approx. 5 mins.) Place the sesame paste,

butter and honey in a bowl, mix well.

To shape

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle (approx. 42 x 50 cm). Brush one half of the dough with the sesame, fold the other half over the top, press down gently. Cut the dough lengthwise into strips approx. 3 cm wide. Twist the strips, shape each one into a button. Place the buttons on two baking trays lined with baking paper.

To bake

Approx. 35 mins. in an oven preheated to 160 °C (convection). Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly. Place the honey and water in a small bowl, mix, brush the buttons with the mixture, allow to cool slightly on a rack.

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