Main Ingredients:
300g all-purpose flour; 45g granulated sugar; 160g milk; 3g yeast; 15g vegetable oil.
Additional Ingredients:
Gardenia yellow: appropriate amount; Gardenia blue: appropriate amount; Gardenia purple: appropriate amount; Bamboo charcoal powder: appropriate amount; Red chrysanthemum powder: appropriate amount; Superfine edible gold powder: appropriate amount.
Flavor: Sweet and fragrant; Cooking method: Steaming; Time-consuming: Several hours; Difficulty: Moderate.
Detailed Steps for Cooking Cute Shaped Steamed Buns – Unicorn Steamed Bun Cake
100g for the first layer of color. Exhaust and round up three colors, flatten and stack them together.
Prepare 15g blue dough and 15g white dough, exhaust and knead them into strips, rotate two colors together around the cake body, and cut off the remaining part after wrapping. Only the remaining part is used to tie a knot for decoration.
30g for the head, 28g for the body, 2g for each white part of the hands and feet, and 0.5g for each pink part of the hands and feet. 2g white and 1g pink for the ears, knead two colors into oval shapes, then stack pink on top of white, cut in half, and press a horizontal line in the middle with a toothpick to make the ears. As for the hair, tail, and horn, these are not weighed, so you can adjust them according to your preference.
The eyes are painted with bamboo charcoal powder mixed with water and applied with a watercolor brush.
Small clouds
Macarons: Roll out to about 2mm thickness, press out with a large piping tip, and stack them together to make macarons.
Lollipop
I use one-time fermentation, directly shaping the dough and then putting it in a steamer on a cold water pot for fermentation. The fermentation time for white steamed buns without shaping is usually 30-40 minutes. Because of the hot weather in Malaysia, I ferment the dough on cold water. I observe whether the fermentation is complete by touch. The feeling of pressing down lightly when the time is up is like the feeling of the flesh under the thumb of the palm (as shown in the picture) when it is relaxed. If it doesn’t feel right, wait another five minutes and observe again. (In general, the longer the shaping time, the shorter the fermentation time. The shorter the shaping time, the longer the fermentation time.) My gas stove has a higher heat, so I steam it over medium-low heat for 18 minutes. After the time is up, I turn off the heat and wait for 5 minutes before opening the lid. (My heat is for reference only. You should adjust your own heat and not make it too high or too boiling.) Remember to take notes every time you finish, so that you can improve next time.️
