Bake homemade hamburger buns in a skull pan then sandwich them around hot and juicy cheeseburgers and toppings for Halloween or the Day of the Dead.
Use one tablespoon of butter to liberally grease 8 skull cavities in your Nordic Ware skull pans.
Deflate the dough and divide it into 8 even pieces (about 95 grams each). Press the dough into the 8 greased skull cavities.
Bake the buns for 14 minutes for lighter buns and about 18 minutes for darker buns, rotating the pans midway through the baking process.
Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter. Brush melted butter over the skull-shaped hamburger buns. Add a second layer of butter if desired. This will give the skull buns a nice shine.
Let the buns cool completely before slicing them in half.
Place a burger on a bun and add toppings.
If you'd like your skull-shaped buns to be thinner, make ten buns using about 75 grams of dough in each. You may want an extra ½ pound of ground beef to make two extra burgers. Or you can make thinner hamburgers.
You can make your skull-shaped hamburger buns up to 3 days in advance. Store them in an airtight container at room temperature. You can also freeze the baked buns for up to 2 months.
If needed, you can cook your burgers ahead of time and reheat them before serving. I suggest cooking them to rare (120 degrees) so that they are still juicy reheated. It would also be good to use fattier ground beef (70/30 or 73/27) so the reheated burgers are juicier.
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