Baps, Barm Cakes, What Would You Call Them?

My second challenge recipe this week from #shortandtweet is the Soft Baps.

Only last weekend I was scouring the shelves of Holsworthy Waitrose looking for a good soft roll with which to make a lunchtime bacon buttie, and came away empty handed.

There was not a soft roll to be had that did not have an ingredient list that read like a chemistry class or had no information at all. I had some of the finest bacon ever in my fridge at home and I was not about to wrap it in anything but flour, yeast, salt and water.

Well now I have some very fine soft baps in my freezer so an impromtu perfect bacon buttie is now a real possibility rather than a dream.

Dan Leppard's recipe for these baps leaves you shaping the buns in a more typical domed round but for me a bap should always be slightly flattened so I did just that. I could possibly have baked them for a tad less time as the flattening out does speed up the baking but I think you can see from the photo they still have a beautiful thin (and soft)  crust. This was the first time I had seen the addition of cornflour to a bread roll recipe and perhaps this is the secret to the tender crust. I was using a strong canadian bread flour from waitrose so the softness was nothing to do with a lack of gluten in the flour.

I can never make floury rolls without thinking about my mother-in-law who always refers to these as Barm Cakes, an expression I had never heard of until meeting her. That said, I was brought up in the south and this does seem to be a bit of a North West England turn of phrase. What would these be called in your part of the world?