Impress your summer bbq guests with homemade hamburger buns using this quick and easy hamburger bun recipe.
Summer BBQ time is here. I love walking around the neighborhood on a summer evening and smelling all the wonderful smells coming form my neighbor’s backyards as they fire up their grills! One of our good old summer stand by dinners is hamburgers on the grill. I keep hamburger patties frozen in the freezer and we can just grab how ever many we need for however many people are there for dinner. And we kick them up a notch with these homemade hamburger buns.
My hamburger bun recipe is almost as easy as making an extra trip to the store to pick up hamburger buns. And they tastes so much better than anything store bought. Making your own hamburger buns is really easy. Honest! And once you enjoy homemade hamburger buns it is hard to go back to the store bought kind.
How to Make Hamburger Buns
I just mix up a batch of dough in my Kitchen aid and then form it into buns instead of rolls. This hamburger bun recipe makes 8 good size buns.
Let the dough rise for about 45 minutes or so. Give them a nice egg wash and a sprinkle of poppy seeds or sesame seeds if desired. And they are ready to go into the oven.
Aren’t they pretty!? The best part is they are delicious too. They are so good in fact you will probably be tempted to eat one or two without the hamburger!
If you are grilling hot dogs instead of hamburgers just shape the dough into a hot dog shape for homemade hot dog buns.
If you end up with a few extra they freeze well too.
Try another great easy bread recipe:
Hamburger Bun Recipe
- 1 C warm water
- 3 Tbsp warm milk
- 1 pkg active dry yeast
- 3 Tbsp sugar
- 2 eggs beaten and divided
- 3 1/3 C bread flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 Tbsp butter
- poppy seeds and/or sesame seeds for top if desired
- In a bowl combine warm water, milk, yeast and sugar. Let sit until foamy.
- In a bowl combine flour and salt.
- Add in butter and rub into flour with your fingers. It will form crumbs.
- Mix in yeast mixture and 1 egg.
- Knead until smooth and elastic. Dough will be slightly sticky.
- Allow dough to rise for 1 hour or until doubled.
- Divide dough into 8 equal pieces and form each into a ball.
- Place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
- Cover loosely with plastic wrap sprayed with non stick spray and allow to rise for about 1 hour.
- Brush tops with remaining beaten egg and sprinkle with poppy seeds or sesame seeds if desired
- Bake at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes or until golden brown
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I totally agree! I discovered this when I didn’t want to run to the store to get some buns. A fresh warm bun with a hamburger or bbq beef, to. die. for.
Thanks for sharing your recipe. I’ll have to try that egg wash and see what it does. 🙂
These look so yummy and simple to make! I have been looking for a hamburger recipe as an alternative to store bought as we try to eliminate processed foods from our diet. I’ll have to try these for our next cookout. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Leigh Anne!
Homemade buns are the best!
I have a vegan version I’d like to share in case you have any readers looking for vegan buns: http://thehealthyfamilyandhome.com/how-to-make-homemade-vegan-hamburger-buns/
I love the poppy seeds on yours! : )
Thanks for sharing the vegan version – looks great!
I’ve never made homemade buns, but I’m definitely going to try! These look amazing!! I’m always needing hamburger buns in the summer and these will be wonderful. Thanks for the recipe!!
Oh, wow, I can almost smell and taste them already! Going to have to try these. Store-bought ones are so tasteless.
These look AMAZING! I am pinning this recipe and will def be using it!
These look wonderful! I just pinned your recipe, and can’t wait to try. Thanks for posting!
These look way good and I’ve been wondering about making my own. Going to pin this and try it out later! Thanks for sharing!
Stopping by from the Southern Lovely Show & Share. I like the idea of making my own buns…can’t wait to try this recipe! I would love to have you share it at The Shady Porch Rock N Share link party too! Blessings, [email protected]
Yum! These would make any burger better:) I can’t wait to try these!
YUM…I make homemade buns all of the time, but I cheat a little bit. I use my bread machine to do all of the hard work for me 🙂 I’ll have to try them as hot dog buns, don’t know why I never thought about it. Have a wonderful day Leigh Anne 🙂
Hi Lisa,
Can I have the bread machine version. I have a Zojirushi bread machine.
Thanks
Wanda
Sorry but I don’t have a bread machine or a bread machine version.
Oh my goodness these look fabulous! I’m pinning them!!
These look so healthy and fabulous! Homemade is definitely better 🙂
Those buns look soooo good. Hugs, Beverly
I saw you at wildly original, I have been looking for a new burger bun recipe. Pinning these!
Thanks for posting this, I’m going to try making them tonight.
These look soft and perfect. Going to try these for sure. Pinned it.
Samantha D
The Kitchen is My Dance Floor
http://cooksandcreates.blogspot.com/
(Visiting from Southern Lovely)
These look amazing! I shared them over on my How to Meal Plan Facebook community.
Thanks for linking the recipe up!
These look fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
These look awesome. Can someone plz give an actual measurement for 1 packet active dry yeast. Thank you
It is 2 1/4 tsp.
These look amazing! I never thought of making these at home, pinning for later! I would love for you to link these up at my first link party!
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Have a great night!
Fantastic ! Simple and looks delicious I pinned this so I may reference back to it 🙂
What a great post! Never thought about making these myself. Would love you to share it at our Ladies Only Blog Share Link Party which is a summer theme this week! Visiting from the Pin Junkie link party! 🙂
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Love fresh bread and these buns look great. Will def give it a go! Thank you for the inspiration and please share your great creations with us! Best of days ~ Sharon and Denise
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Not sure these would make it until the burgers were grilled, so gorgeous! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
I just love making rolls. Yours look so light and fluffy, the perfect roll. Thanks for sharing on Thursdays Treasures. This will be a feature.
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Rebecca
These hamburger buns look delicious. Thanks so much for sharing with Adorned From Above’s Blog Hop. The party will be back this week starting Tuesday and 8:00PM mountain time. We can’t wait to see what you have to share this week.
Have a great week.
Debi and Charly
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It’s really great but what did u actually mean by 1 pkg yeast?
One package of yeast is equal to 2 1/4 tsp.
hello,
thank you for the recipe, i love hamburger and was looking for a long time for this buns.
Now, i don’t see anyone that actually made this buns recipe so i tried and this is my suggestion: 3 tbsp of sugar is way to much, the buns are to sweet. My dough did not rise enough so a bit dense inside the roll. Maybe it was to cold or i did not put enough yeast. Dividing by 8 balls the buns are small so i recommend dividing by 6 so the stuffing stay inside the roll.
otherwise it looks beautiful thank you again
cheers
How did these companies to actual hamburger buns, the texture?
Wendie, I think the texture is better. Not as spongy as store bought rolls
When dough is rising first time before being made into buns do you cover it?
Thanks, Deb
You can just place a light cloth over it
I did try them before my post and my family LOVED them…and I wasnt sure so just wanted to touch base about covering them …gonna make them again today, thank you for sharing!!!! My husband thanks you too he ABSOLUTELY loved them (truly the way to his heart is his stomach…lol) Debra
Hi? These look so so delicious! But I use only whole wheat when baking. Have you tried these with a white whole wheat flour? Thanks
I have not tried them with whole wheat but I bet they would be wonderful.
Thank you for an awesome recipe…I made it vegan…I didn’t use any egg…I used almond/coconut milk, smart balance instead of butter, unbleached all purpose flour, and added 3 tbs of vital wheat gluten…this is by far the best and easiest recipe for hard rolls…mine came out huge!!!! Just beautiful!!! The taste phenomenal!!!! Thank you!!!!
Glad they worked well with your tweaks!
Perfect recipe!! I, as one of the other members, used my bread maker. Added the ingredients according to the bread maker’s manufacturing suggestions. I used the dough cycle. And, of course, did the rest by hand. Soooo good. Tried another recipe because I didn’t have the milk once. And much preferred this recipe. So I am back!! Thanks again for sharing.
I made these buns today. I had never made homemade bread before so I was very nervous how these would turn out. They were absolutely delicious! They were very easy to make and I plan on making them over and over again!
I am so glad they were a success for you!
Thank you so much for posting this!! Came out awesome as buns and as a loaf of bread! Just wonderful!
So glad it worked well for you!
Do you freeze the extra dough, or do you freeze the buns after you baked them?
I freeze them after I bake them.
Oh yum, this sounds delicious! And love your photos, by the way 🙂
Thanks so much!
I just made these, they are amazing!!! Thanks for sharing!
Love hearing that!!! I’m so glad!
Hi Leigh,
I am Steve from Singapore.
Where we are here, we use metric.
And butter comes in sticks.
How do you measure 3 Tablespoon of butter ? Do you heat up the butter into liquid form first?
regards
Steven, I would just Google what the metric equivalent is of 3 Tablespoons. It is softened butter, not melted. Enjoy!
Omg. Just finished making these. I am a front line cook and baking was not my strong suit. But lately I have had a urge to bake. I have tried a few bread recipes and felt like trying buns. Two thumbs up. Question? Was thinking about a loaf. What temp and how long do you recommend? Also I used evaporated milk and it turned out great. Textured and flavor is spot on. Thank you for this share and will make it my go to recipe.
So glad you loved them – not sure on the loaf. Would just experiment. Bake it at the same temperature as you would bake bread and watch it.
Thank you for this recipe. It is easy to do. We have a household of 2 a package of hamburger buns do not freeze well. But your homemade ones freeze beautiful. And they are delicious no additives or preseritives….
Donna, So glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Just made these but I used my bread machine dough setting to do all the work. mixed the yeast, water, sugar and milk as directed and let sit then added the egg. Put that in my machine, then added the flour, salt and butter and turned on machine to dough setting. they turned out great. this helps for those who can no longer kneed the dough.
Kate, Thanks so much for sharing!
This was a good base recipe. I opted for olive oil over butter and I omitted the second rise, and they turned out fluffy and perfect. I think the second rise would have over-proved them. I will keep my modifications and this will be my go-to because it’s the best I’ve made this month (I’m testing new recipes).
Hi Leigh Anne.
Can I use my kitchen Aid artisan stand mixer
For this recipe instead?
I am going to cut down the sugar amount as well. I think it is a little too much sugar in your recipe. Please let me know by e-mailing me at
[email protected]
Yes you can use your mixer.
it looks like you do not own a stand mixer, Sad. you are really missing out on a really great mixer.
the reason why i come to this conclusion is , nowhere in this recipes instructions do you mention a stand mixer with a dough hook attachment.
i do own a kitchen aid artisan stand mixer with a dough hook attachment and i want to use it to make bread and rolls including hamburger rolls. oh well, this looked like a really great hamburger roll recipe to.
i guess i will just delete it off of my pinterest board and try finding one with an author that will let me use my kitchen aid artisan stand mixer with a dough hook attachment.
Heather, I do own a stand mixer. You are welcome to use your stand mixer with this recipe, it will work just fine. The recipe will work if done by hand or with a mixer.