Assorted Sweet Buns

lil ones love eating bread & buns made by me, although I seriously thinks that my bread /buns werer nothing near perfect.  My boy always tell me, nothing beats the smell and taste of  mommy's freshly baked homemade bread. *so sweeeeeet*

My first Pizza

Have always been telling my little girl that if you make a promise, you have to keep it.  *blushed* yet I broke one last week.  Supposed to make pizza for lunch last Sunday but I was not feeling very well, thus, feeling very tired and sleepy.  So end up, I just cook simple lunch and that make my girl very upset because she does not get to eat her fav pizza.

Feeling much better this week, I decided that I should keep my promise and make pizza for lunch today. 

I know that I do not have much time to spare in the morning to make the dough from scratch, so I use “betty crocker pizza crust mix|”.   This mix is easy to handle and make my making of the pizza crust a breeze.  It taste nice too.

I topped the pizza w black pepper chicken, ham, mushrooms, capsicums, sausages, eggs and lots of cheese!

My lil ones commented that this is the yummiest pizza they ever had, isn’t it sweet!!  (^.^)

Flower Bun & Ham Rolls

My kids asked me this morning if I can make some buns for them to bring to school tomorrow.  As I still have some white lotus paste in my fridge, I agreed. I remembered seeing this very pretty flower shape mooncake somewhere before so I thought it may be a good idea to shape my buns into “flower”.

After making all the “flowers”, still have some dough left, so I just ask the kids to flatten the dough, put a ham in the middle and roll it up. J

Here is the recipe for the Basic Bread Dough taken from Bread Code with a slight modification.

Ingredients A:

500g high protein flour

1 tsp instant yeast

Ingredients B:

60g sugar   (will increase next time as I prefer sweeter bread)

1 tsp (5g) Salt   (I omitted as I used salted butter)

1 tsp (5g) milk powder   (I replace this with soya milk powder)

Ingredients C:

1 Egg

250g water

Ingredient D:

5og butter

Method:

1. Put ingredients A in a mixer and blend at low speed for 1 min.
2. Add ingredients B, blend for 1 min.
3. Add ingredients C, blend at low speed for 1 min, then use medium speed to blend for 5 min until dough-like.
4. Add ingredient D and continue to blend 10-15 mins till dough is shiny and springy (I didn’t use mixer so hand kneading will take about 30 mins)
5. Use a wet towel to cover the dough and allow to leaven for 45mins till the dough doubled.
6. Divide the bread dough into 40g and wrapped the white lotus paste, flatten and use a knife to cut out 5 openings.
7. Place on baking paper, glazed with beaten egg  and sprinkle some almond nuts in the center of the flower (additional step by me)
8. Place into pre-heated oven, baked at 180 C for 20 mins.
9. Cool on cooling rack.

Luncheon meat bun

I was at the supermarket looking for Korean strawberries when I suddenly recalled dar dar mentioning to me about one week ago that he misses luncheon meat bun.  Since he Bday is coming soon, So I thought it would be nice to start some pre Bday surprises for him by baking him something he likes.  So I bought a pack of bread flour and a can of luncheon meat. (^,^)

爱心面包给心爱的他

可爱的毛毛虫面包 ! @@@@" "@@@@

Basic Sweet Dough recipe can be found here.

Cinnamon Rolls & Japanese curry Bun

I love delicious Cinnamon Rolls ! Each roll are full of ground cinnamon, sugar and butter! Yummy...drooling just thinking about it.  Since Im going to bake some Japanese Curry Bun for the kids, might as well make some cinnamon rolls too. 

 Use Japanese Curry becos its not too spicy so kids can still enjoy curry bun.

Hammy & Cheesy Buns

今天想烘些面包给孩子们吃，Hammy & Cheesy buns!

~ before baking ~

Basic Sweet Dough

Ingredients:

• Instant Yeast - 11gm
• Water - 120gm
• Bread Flour - 350gm(sifted)
• Milk Powder - 3 tbsp.
• Castor Sugar - 60gm
• Fine Salt - 1/2 tsp.
• Large Egg - 1 no.
• Soften Butter - 40gm

Method:

1. Soften the Instant Yeast with warm water. Leave aside.
2. In a bowl, Mix well Bread Flour, Milk Powder, Castor Sugar & Fine Salt, make a well in the middle, pour in Yeast Mixture & Egg, then mix them together to form a soft dough.
3. Place Butter on the dough, knead butter into the dough & knead until butter has totally disappear, knead & spank the dough on the work surface until the dough has become soft & elastic, this process should take at least 20-30 minutes.
4. Before proofing, pinch a small piece of dough for a stretch test, pull & stretch it into a thin membrane, if it doesn't tear easily, that shows that the dough is well developed, and now you can leave the dough for proofing.
5. Place the dough into a mixing bowl or a big bowl, cover the bowl with a damp towel & let it proof in a warm place for 45 minutes.
6. Remove the dough from the bowl, press out the air from the dough & knead into a long dough, divide your desired portion & shape them into small dough before wrapping.