Honey brick toast on homemade milk bread

Lay parchment paper on a sheet tray, set a slice of milk bread on it and toast it.

For the anime version, top the toast with a couple heaping tablespoons each of strawberry, orange and plum jam, a glug of honey, a square of butter and a dusting of cinnamon.

For the tangzhong, combine 50 g bread flour with 90 g whole milk in a medium saucepan and stir over medium heat until sticky and tight, then wrap and chill.

In a stand mixer, combine 480 g bread flour, 5 g instant yeast, 30 g sugar, 5 g kosher salt and the cooled tangzhong broken into pieces.

Add 60 g heavy cream, 40 g honey and 270 g room temperature whole milk and knead with the dough hook on low to medium for four to six minutes.

Add about 30 g cubed soft unsalted butter and knead a further six to eight minutes until smooth.

Proof in a lightly greased container under plastic wrap for one to two hours, until doubled.

Grease a Pullman loaf pan with softened butter. If the pan has holes in the base, set a parchment-lined pan underneath in the oven.

Divide the risen dough into four equal chunks, roll into tight balls, set them side by side in the pan and slide the lid on.

Rise a further 45 minutes.

Bake with the lid on at 375 for 30 to 45 minutes, or until the internal temperature is 200 to 205 Fahrenheit.

Variation: the second loaf uses a batch increased by 50 per cent and is proofed ten minutes less to stop it deflating.

Cool the loaf to room temperature.

Cut a cube out of the loaf: four incisions down the walls, then a final cut about one centimetre up from the bottom of one face to release the inner cube. Cut that cube into smaller cubes.

Melt a whole stick of butter, stir in a heaping tablespoon of orange marmalade, a pinch of salt and a couple dashes of cinnamon, and heat to a jam mixture.

Brush the butter and jam mixture inside and outside the toast walls, then toss the bread cubes in the rest.

Bake the coated cubes on a parchment-lined sheet tray at 375 for eight to ten minutes until golden brown, and toast the wall box with its inside facing the oven fan.

Assemble: toast box, dollops of strawberry jam, bread cubes, sliced strawberries, dollops of plum jam, more cubes, orange marmalade, more cubes, sliced plum and the last strawberries.

Top with a scoop of ice cream, drizzles of condensed milk and honey, and a sprig of mint.