Today, our family’s tried-and-true, much-loved milk bread recipe gets the Cinnamon Roll treatment. These incredibly fluffy Cinnamon Rolls are the stuff of Goldilocks’s dreams. That is, they have just the right amount of cinnamon, frosting, and of course, the most tender, fluffy, pull-apart texture. They also stay soft and tender much longer than most cinnamon roll
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Category Archive: ‘Desserts & Sweet Stuff’
These classic Steamed Red Bean Buns are known as dòu bāo (豆包) to Northerners, and dòushā bāo (豆沙包) to Southerners. It took me a while to realize that both refer to this same delicious fluffy bun with sweet red bean filling. A Childhood Favorite As a child so many moons ago, steamed red bean buns
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Deep Fried Sesame Balls and me go a long way back—to when I was a little kid. We bought them in Chinatown bakeries, and snatched them fresh off of dim sum carts, where they were neatly cut in half for convenient sharing. They are made with a sticky rice flour dough, filled with a sweet
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Coconut buns, or “cocktail buns” are a beloved bakery favorite among locals in Hong Kong and Chinatowns everywhere. It combines the soft, buttery milk bread ubiquitous around Asia, with a sweet, rich coconut filling. Often, the filling ends up baked in a big hunk in the center of the bun. When I eat one, I
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This Osmanthus Cake has a moist, dense yet airy crumb, with a subtle sweetness from the addition of osmanthus syrup and vanilla. Since this perfect yellow cake emerged from the oven, with it’s dark, thick crust, it has become our latest obsession. It’s the perfect dessert dressed up with whipped cream and berries (or just
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Apple pie is the quintessential fall dessert. My version features an extra flaky crust (the secret is less water in the dough than most conventional pie crust recipes call for), and a tender, not-too-sweet apple filling. With a scoop of vanilla ice cream, it’s perfectly balanced! Rethinking Pie Crust A traditional double crust pie dough
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Snow Skin Mooncakes have taken the mooncake world by storm! They’re snowy white rather than the traditional golden brown pastry, and people have gone gaga for them. With the Mid-Autumn Festival coming up, I knew I had to develop the Woks of Life version of the recipe. What Are Snow Skin Mooncakes? In Chinese, the
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Today, we’re going to talk about how to make lotus seed paste for mooncakes, steamed buns, and other Chinese pastries. With the Mid-Autumn Festival (mooncake season) coming up, I thought I’d post a recipe for this delicious filling, so you can craft your own Chinese pastries at home! My favorite application? Lotus mooncakes! What Are
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