Pan De Muerto Recipe

0 Add yeast to the warm milk with 1 tbsp flour and 1 tbsp sugar. Mix and activate for 5 minutes.
1 Mix your flour and sugar. Add the yeasty milk and mix well. Add eggs, mix until all the flour is incorporated. Add vanilla, anise, orange blossom water and orange zest. Mix. Add butter and salt. Mix with your hands & knead for 5-7 minutes. Let it rise in a warm place in a greased bowl covered in plastic wrap for 1 hour.
2 Once it doubles in size, punch it and divide the dough in 5. Set 1/5 aside. Form the other 4 parts into a ball and place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. You’ll need 2 sheet trays.
3 Mix in the tbsp of flour to the remaining dough, once again cut that into 5 parts. Cut 1 of those parts in 4 and form little rounds. Cut the other 4 in 2, and form your bones (see video)
4 Place 2 bones per bread in an x pattern and top with the round one. Let them rise again for 1 hour. Brush with egg wash, bake at 350°F for 15-20 minutes.
5 Brush with melted butter and coat in sugar.