39 bun dough recipes

Fluffy steamed buns filled with sweet Chinese BBQ pork. These dim sum favorites take time but reward with pillowy soft dough and savory-sweet char siu filling. Makes 12 buns.

A soft yeast dough stuffed with a quick filling of ground beef, cabbage and cheese is reasonably simply and surprisingly addictive. This mid-western Germany classic is perfect for Oktoberfest or any time of year.

Piroshki: golden Russian stuffed buns of soft yeast dough wrapped around savory beef, mushroom, or buckwheat fillings, then baked or fried. The portable hand pie of Russian home cooking.

Pretzel bread buns, soft deli-style rolls with a chewy, mahogany pretzel crust from a quick baking soda bath. Bread machine dough makes them easy, ready for burgers and sandwiches.

Homemade cinnamon rolls in 90 minutes: soft yeast dough rolled with brown sugar-cinnamon butter, sliced into 12 buns, and baked in muffin tins until golden and sticky-sweet.

Amy Scherber's bakery-quality pecan sticky buns. Soft yeasted dough with autolyse rest, caramel-pecan bottom, cinnamon swirl. The classic NYC bread shop sticky bun at home.

Basic yeast dough is an enriched egg-and-shortening dough that's the foundation for cloverleaf rolls, cheese crescents, sesame buns, or cinnamon loaf. Make ahead and refrigerate up to 5 days.

Prune Buns are old-fashioned yeasted sweet buns filled with prune preserves - built on an overnight sponge starter and a butter-rich dough, finished with powdered sugar.

New York crumb buns with rich enriched dough and a thick almond paste cinnamon crumb topping. The classic deli pastry from old-school Brooklyn and Queens bakeries.

Caramel sticky buns: soft yeast rolls baked over a caramel topping and inverted to reveal a glossy caramel glaze. A food-processor dough for quick sticky buns in about an hour.

Lemon sticky buns made with frozen bread dough, lemon-corn syrup glaze, and cinnamon-nutmeg sugar swirl. Bright citrus twist on classic sticky buns, baked golden and inverted onto the plate.

Copycat Cinnabon cinnamon rolls made with a pudding-enriched dough for an ultra-soft, gooey crumb, rolled with brown sugar and cinnamon and finished three ways: cream cheese frosting, caramel-pecan sticky buns, or classic.

Big batch homemade hamburger buns: a soft yeasted dough made with scalded milk and shortening. Yields four dozen buns, perfect for a backyard cookout crowd.

Soft, golden whole wheat hamburger and hot dog buns made easy with your bread machine. The dough cycle handles the heavy lifting so you get fresh, bakery-style buns with nutty wheat flavor for your next cookout.

Sesame buns shape basic bread dough into 8 round burger or sandwich buns, brushed with egg white wash and topped with sesame seeds for that classic bakery finish.

Jiffy cinnamon buns: no-yeast quick cinnamon rolls ready in 45 minutes. Soft biscuit-style dough rolled with cinnamon brown sugar filling, baked in muffin tins, and glazed.