If you're looking for the ultimate hamburger bun, look no further. These Homemade Hamburger Buns are not only quick and easy to make but also light and fluffy. Topped with sesame seeds or plain, they're beautiful to look at and perfect for any occasion.
Ingredients: Here's What You'll Need
I used the following ingredients for these amazing hamburger buns: Milk, water, unsalted butter, egg, granulated sugar, salt, all-purpose flour, and yeast.
Here's How I Made This Recipe
These hamburger buns are a snap to make 1in your bread machine. Basically, I added the wet ingredients, followed by the salt, sugar, and flour, to the pan of the bread machine. The last ingredient that I added was the yeast.
I set the bread machine on the dough cycle and walked away!
When the dough cycle ended, I dumped the dough onto a floured piece of wax paper and cut the dough into six pieces.
This recipe makes either 6 large (whopper-size) buns or 8 regular-size buns. I decided to make the large ones, so I weighed the dough and divided the weight by six. Each bun took 3.4 ounces or 97 grams of dough. Yes, I know - I'm a foodie nerd. I weigh almost everything!
After I portioned the dough into six pieces, I rolled each piece into a ball and placed it on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
I knew the rolls would rise quite a bit, so I left a lot of room between them. I flattened each piece with my fingertips, covered the pan, and placed it into my electric oven that I had heated for 1 minute and 45 seconds (a trick I learned from Julia Child).
After about 35 minutes, the buns had risen nicely and were almost ready to cook.
I brushed each one with egg white and sprinkled sesame seeds on three buns. The Master Taste Tester doesn't like sesame seeds on his buns, so I left some plain.
Into a preheated 400°F oven, the buns went for about 12 minutes until they were golden brown.
I ended up with six large and perfectly delicious hamburger buns. I don't think that I'll ever use store-bought buns again. Yum!
If you're looking for amazing burgers to serve on these homemade buns, check out my Portobello Mushroom Burgers, Grilled Peri Peri Chicken Burgers, or Oklahoma Fried Onion Burgers.
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Homemade Hamburger Buns (Bread Machine)
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup (4 ounces, 118 ml) milk
- ¼ cup (2 ounces, 59 ml) water (enough such that the total weight of the milk, egg, and water is 8 ounces or 237 ml) (See Tip 1)
- 2 Tablespoons (1 ounce, 28 grams) unsalted butter
- 1 Tablespoon granulated sugar
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 2 ½ cups (12 ounces, 340 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1 ⅛ teaspoons bread machine yeast
Instructions
- Add all ingredients pan of the bread machine in the order listed. Program the machine for the dough cycle, and press start. When the dough cycle has finished, transfer the dough to a floured surface. Using either a pizza cutter or a dough scraper, cut the dough into 6 (3.44 ounces, 97 grams) or 8 (2.5 ounces, 71 grams). Form each piece into a ball and place it on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Using floured fingertips, flatten each piece until it is about ½-inch thick. Cover; allow to rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 30 to 35 minutes. (See Tip 2)
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Remove from oven; transfer to wire rack to cool.
- Yield: 6 large or 8 regular-sized hamburger buns.
Tips/Notes
- ¼ cup of water is approximate because the weight of eggs varies a lot. Therefore, I add the milk and egg to a measuring cup on a kitchen scale, and add enough water to equal a total of 8 ounces or 237 ml)
- If your oven does not have a proofing function, use Julia Child's suggestion. To create the perfect environment for rising, turn on electric oven for exactly 1 minute and 45 seconds.
Nutrition
Deanna Diebler says
This is the only hamburger bun recipe i use now. It is light,fluffy perfect for us.
Chula King says
Excellent - just in time for the 4th of July!
Stephanie says
I have made these multiple times over the last two or three weeks great reviews from my family and I am not a baker. This was easy to use for both hamburger and hotdog/sausage buns. I was even able to get my 5 year old and 3 year old to help.
Thank you for the recipe.
Chula King says
Stephanie,
So glad that this turned out for you. I bet your 5-year old and 3-year old were great helps!
Chula
AC says
Hi,
I want to know if you made this in a 1 pound loaf machine. I have a Zojurushi Mini - which I am very thankful for. I want to be able to make hamburger buns and am searching for a recipe for a 1 pound machine.
Thank you! AC
Chula King says
Hi AC, Yes, I made this in my mini Zojurushi bread machine. I absolutely love my mini. Everything that I'e made in it has turned out amazingly well.
Chula
Jesisca says
Thanks for the recipe. I was a little confused when taking the dough out of the bread machine. My bread machine has both a dough cycle (which is mixing only) and a leaven dough cycle (which is mix and rise). I initially used just the dough cycle, but knew it needed a second rise. I was still able to use the dough, but it was a bit confusing.
Chula King says
Sorry about that Jessica. I guess every bread machine is potentially different.
Chula
Christine says
Do you happen to know if substituting active dry yeast in place of bread machine yeast in the same ratio works or is there an adjusted amount you would recommend?
Chula King says
Christine, the rule-of-thumb is that one unit of active dry yeast is equivalent to 0.75 units of bread machine or instant yeast. Turning that around would mean that 1 unit of bread machine or instant yeast is equivalent to 1.33 units of instant yeast. For example, if the recipe calls for 1.5 teaspoons of bread machine yeast, then you would use 2 teaspoons (1.5 x 1.33 = 1.995) of active dry yeast. Hope this helps.
Chula
Geraldine Low says
I have made these hamburger buns twice in my bread machine. They are excellent! I can start them by 3:00 and have them for burgers at 5:30. They are so much better (fresher) so they hold together through the whole burger.
Since COVID happened, you can’t just dash to the grocery store if you are in the elderly group so this recipe has been used twice rather that jeopardize our health.
They are really nice hamburger buns. Thank you!
Chula King says
You're totally right Geraldine - COVID has definitely altered my dashing to the grocery store! I'm so pleased that the buns worked out for you. Stay safe.
Chula
Birgit Johnson says
Oh my goodness but these were good! I feel so accomplished serving something that looked this elegant and tasted so very delicious! These buns were out of this world. Many thanks for publishing this awesome recipe! I'm a novice baker but these were pretty easy and well worth the effort.
Chula King says
Birgit, I'm so pleased that the buns turned out for you!
Chula
Adrian Donlan says
These were great, I let the breadmaker do another dough session to make sure that they were correctly kneaded and then let the rolls rest in the refrigerator for 4 hours before taking out for the final prove; They came out perfectly
Chula King says
Adrian, I'm a huge believer in the bread machine doing most of the work. So glad that they came out perfectly for you!
Chula
Ness says
Trying these as I type this, waiting for the oven to preheat, I’m excited!
Just wondering if I were to add cornmeal how would I do that?!
Chula King says
Hi Ness,
Unfortunately, I don't know how adding cornmeal would work with these buns. If you figure it out, I'd love to know though!
Chula
Lana says
Made these tonight, put them on the pizza dough 45 minute cycle, turned out AMAZING! Mixture was quite gloopy when I opened the breadmaker and I was a little worried but I didn’t need to be - FAR OUT they were great!! Will absolutely make again (and again and again).
Chula King says
Outstanding! I so glad that they worked out for you Lana.
Chula
Jenni Martinez says
My bread dough cycle automatically rises at the end of its cycle. Should I let it do that? Or should I take it out before hand?
Chula King says
Jenni,
The dough cycle includes both the kneading of the dough and the first rise. Therefore, let it go until the end of the dough cycle and then shape the hamburger buns.
Chula
Annie says
Made these buns during lockdown and they turned out beautifully and made the hamburgers so much nicer. Great recipe and so easy.
Chula King says
Annie, so glad that they turned out for you!
Chula
Carly says
Thanks for this recipe. I love my bread machine and I also have an electric oven and often let things rise by just turning on “oven light”. I’ll try the 1 mon 45 you mentioned though! Any suggestions for subbing whole wheat flour, rye flour or even bread flour? I’m low on AP flour and haven’t seen any in stores.
Thanks!
Chula King says
Carly, I've not tried these with either whole wheat flour or rye flour. However, bread flour should work fine. In fact, I actually use bread flour for most of the breads that I make. Also, when I've used bread flour in place of all-purpose flour in bread recipes, I've not detected any difference. I do have a recipe for Honey Whole Wheat Rolls that use a combination of whole wheat flour and bread flour (https://pudgefactor.com/honey-wheat-rolls-bread-machine) that you might try. Chula
Christina Shaver says
I am a terrible, horrible cook, baker, kitchen person... and these came out PERFECTLY! If I can do it, anyone can!!! Thank you for such a great recipe. We're grilling burgers tonight to go with them.
Chula King says
Excellent!
Kristi says
These were awesome! I put some Smokey seasoned salt and dried hatch chili pepper into the dough. Brushed with egg and butter and sprinkled with dried scallions. They were incredible!
Chula King says
YUM! I'm going to have to try that!
Donna Ingram says
I wish I could post a photo to show you how beautiful my hamburger buns turned out! I did not think to order buns when I made my weekly online grocery order and, at my age (68), I am trying so hard to not actually go into the stores. I was able to make 8 decent sized buns, and as I only made 6 burgers, my husband and son both ate one each with butter. They loved them!
Chula King says
Donna - I wish I could see a photo as well! Based on what you said, they turned out incredibly well. Stay safe!
Chula