Totoro Steamed buns

We made some steamed buns/mantao together this weekend. Kids just watched My Neighbor Totoro recently and since the color involved looks quite simple so we went ahead with this character bun 😅 Not perfectly shaped but not so bad for…

Dairy-free Red Bean Steamed buns 豆沙包

After making Chinese red bean pastry, I’m still experimenting with the red bean paste recipe 😅 so I bought another bag of red bean and make another round of the paste. Still not satisfied by the consistency as it’s on…

Steamed Buns Day with Kids

I was experimenting with chrysanthemum goji berry flavored steamed buns and kids requested to make their own buns too 😅 so I had to give them a batch of dough to “work on”. Gave them dough made with thermomix quick…

挂包/Steamed Folded Buns

Trying out @chez.jorge steamed buns recipe because I watched his live IG and the fluffy buns were too hard to resist 😅 I made them into the folded buns (Chez Jorge also had a folded steamed buns recipe on his website here)….

Fluffy Char Siew Bao/Steamed buns

Finally found a recipe which produce very fluffy steamed buns. Thank you @chompmom for sharing this dough recipe from https://tasteasianfood.com/char-siu-bao-recipe/ The only downside is there’s 50g of shortening for 20 buns. So each buns contain 2.5g of shortening 🤪 I will try…

Hua Juan/ Spring Onion Steamed buns

Another batch of not-satisfying-attempt for steamed buns as I tried using a new recipe with shortening. Hoping for that fluffy texture I wanted to achieve. I felt that I had under kneaded the dough which affected the texture and also…

Vegan Turnip Steamed Buns

I am still on the search for a nice steamed bun recipe. Initially, I was adamant about not using vegetable shortening. After reading many recipes, I have noticed that the key to get fluffy texture and not the bready kind…

Char Siew Buns and Vegetable Buns

It was a “bao” day (steamed buns day) for us 😅 hubby said he wants vegetable buns but the kids love their char siew buns more. So I decided to make both. Took me 3 hours to make these buns…

[Thermomix] Quick purple sweet potato steamed buns

Time for some steamed buns again🤣 coz we need some snacks and “edible sensory play” for the kids. This time I didn’t reduce the olive oil and kids were complaining that dough is too sticky for them to shape 😝…

[Thermomix] steamed buns/ mantou

Keeping kids at home during this pandemic time means we have to think of endless activities with them 😐 they are either bored/hungry all-day-long. Very often they request for making steamed buns/mantou as they get to have some edible sensory…

Sunday Steamed buns

It’s becoming our Sunday activity with the kids 😅 making steamed buns together.

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.This time we made 3 colors as requested by the little ms. N.

I made a bigger batch of dough using the thermomix (total dough about 494g I.e 16buns of about 30g Each)

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.adjusted recipe from perfection with Thermomix in 7 days -quick steamed buns with some adjustments.

Steamed Cute looking bun (Dairy Free)

Followed YouTube recipe by Tinrry baking ( @wangmeijibuns ) she did a clear explanation of all the steps and key points to note! I was in the rush to go out for dinner date with my girls so couldn’t do design…

Char Siew Bao (叉烧包）

Still looking for my perfect and easy dough recipe for steamed buns… 🤣been testing different dough recipes which doesn’t require shortening , milk or sourdough starter… . This time, I’m using a dough recipe which only uses flour, yeast and…

Steamed vegetable buns 蒸菜包 (Dairy Free)

Ingredients 400~450g turnip, cut into strips 30g carrot, cut into thin strips 2 soaked shiitake mushroom chop into pieces 5 soaked black fungus chop into pieces 15g garlic (about 4 cloves), minced 30~40ml hot water Seasoning 1/4 ~ 1/2 tsp…

Chocolate Mantou

This recipe is modified from @reese_hlac recipe on her YouTube Channel to make it dairy-free. Still need to work on my rolling skill ? her buns look so pretty! Please go watch it.   Here present to you my Dairy…