Pan de Muerto

Name: Pan de Muerto
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 500g strong bread flour; 4 eggs; 120g butter, softened; 100g sugar, plus more for dusting; 7g dried yeast and 1/2 tsp salt; Zest of 1 orange and 1 tbsp orange blossom water; 80ml warm milk

Pan de muerto/pahn deh MWEHR-toh/

Also known as: Day of the Dead Bread, Bread of the Dead, Mexican Sweet Bread for Dia de Muertos

About this dish

A soft, sweet bread flavoured with orange blossom and orange zest, decorated with dough 'bones' and dusted with sugar.

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Ingredients

🌾500g strong bread flour

🥚4 eggs

🧈120g butter, softened

🍬100g sugar, plus more for dusting

🧂7g dried yeast and 1/2 tsp salt

🍊Zest of 1 orange and 1 tbsp orange blossom water

🥛80ml warm milk

Method

Serves 2

Mix the flour, sugar, yeast, salt, eggs, milk, zest and orange blossom water.

Knead in the butter until smooth and elastic, then leave to rise until doubled.

Shape into rounds, saving some dough to roll into 'bones' and a small ball for the top.

Stick on the decorations, leave to rise again and bake at 180°C (350°F) for 30 minutes.

Brush with melted butter and coat in sugar.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Pan de muerto is baked for the Day of the Dead (1–2 November) and placed on family altars as an offering, as well as eaten with hot chocolate.

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