Making Heart Shaped Cinnamon Buns (containing TangZhong)

Its Christmas, lets share some joy and love by making heart shaped cinnamon buns for everyone including Santa! Ingredients for Heart Shaped Cinnamon Buns (makes 12 large buns or 24 smaller buns) For cinnamon filling: 80 g light brown sugar 35 g flour 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 113 g butter softened (you can use salted or …

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Making Mini Sweet Sausage Rolls (containing TangZhong)

I have been making bread and posting it on my Facebook pages for the last 2 weeks. The pictures stirred up a little storm and a few friends have shown interest. We decided to get together in our weekly play date session and arranged to make bread with the kiddies (bread making class 001, LOL). A …

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Experimental Cookery: Water Roux Starter (TangZhong)

I found this cool site, promoting the book “Experimental cookery from the chemicals and physical standpoint” by Belle Lowe (okay I am a nerd, read on as it may be interesting for bread maker enthusiasts). A section of the book describes factors that may change the properties of gluten and hence its tenacity or cohesiveness, …

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My sous chef

                When my 3 year old is at home with me, I love to make him my sous chef. He loves to ‘tickle’ flour and whatever ingredients we prepared which includes oil, milk, sugar, eggs and butter. He loves to get in there and get dirty. A sucker …

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Making Hong Kong Sweet Buns (Pai Bao)

Pai Bao (排包) or translated as ‘roll bun’ is a kind of fluffy, soft sweet bun famous in Chinese bakery shops around the world probably originated from Hong Kong. The dough (or buns=Bao) are arranged in long rows (Pai). This recipe is very easy to make especially if you have a bread maker to do the mixing and kneading. …

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Welcome to Settys Life @ Home

I love experimental cooking and baking, using hubby, Ethan, neighbours and work colleagues as my guinea pigs to test my ‘masterpieces’. Having said that I am not the best cook or the most organised person in the world and neither would I claim to be a professional cook. COOKING… KITCHEN… TOYS and BOYS I love kitchen gadgets and …

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