Mother's Day Strawberry Jams - from my son

Something very happy to share...
I did ask him to apply the strawberry jams on the bread. But he happily eat the bread himself.. hahahaa.. I was so happy to see that my son enjoy it and thanks for his teachers for organizing this!

Btw, don't understand why this picture was rotated though my original copy wasn't look like this :(

Honey Buns

My 1st honey buns from HHB's recipe.

I wanted to try something else other than raisin :P Also trying to look for a good recipe to make my husband's favorite Pork Floss buns ^.^

Have to wait till tomorrow to see if the buns still as fluffy as this morning so that i can try out wrapping pork-floss inside the buns. Will update again tomorrow.

Note: I baked this and took it out from oven on 11 May 2010 @ 11:47pm, it was over 8hours when I took the picture this morning.

Ingredients: (makes 9 buns)
- 1 egg lightly beaten plus enough milk to make 200g
- 50g honey [good enough with filling, if plain, increase a little bit more]
- 300g breadflour
- 4g (about 2/3t) salt
- 4g (1t) instant yeast
- 30g unsalted butter

Method:
1. Dough function.
2. De-gas, divide and rest 10mins covered with cling wrap.
3. Flatten, roll out and roll up. Put in pan (seams-side-down) and final proof 45-60mins/doubled size.
4. Brush with egg-wash/milk.
4. Bake at preheated oven @ 200C/15-20mins. [cover with foil in the middle of baking to avoid burning on top]

Sweet buns into white bread ^.^

I love this loaf of bread though it was a plain bread. The "fluffiness" was amazing!

I added little bit more sugar as my 83year-old grandma-in-law would love to eat it "nakedly".

This was baked upon request from my falling-sick daughter who would love to apply a layer of nutella!

Original recipe from HHB. Yes it was a sweet buns recipe. At first I thought it was a loaf/white bread (when I wanted to update my blog), but after checking out with my maid (she helps to prepare ingredient), she confirmed that the recipe requires 125ml milk and I've told her that in order to have 125ml milk, she had to add 3T milk powder to 120-125ml water.

Ingredients:
- 125g milk (or 3T milk powder + 125ml water)
- 1 egg
- 150g bread flour
- 150g cake flour
- 3g salt
- 60g caster sugar
- 5g active dry yeast
- 50g butter
- (1 egg, beaten, for glazing)

I was still scratching my head while typing this. Guess I will try this out again to clear my own doubt!

Raisin Loaf

This would be my regular raisin loaf! My elder son can finish 2 slices at one go! It was very soft and taste nice, not too sweet for a raisin loaf ^.^ weeee..... happy me!

I just let my newly bought breadmaker (BM256) to do the job!

I've found this recipe from HHB but originally from MARS. Thank you both so much as my boy loves this!

Ingredients:
- 168g water (56%)
- 300g bread flour (100%)
- 18g milk powder (6%)
- 5g instant yeast (1.5%)
- 5g salt
- 45g sugar (15%) (I used 25%)
- 24g butter (8%)
- some raisins (optional)

1st Mocha Loaf

Believe me, the texture was super fluffy and soft! Even till the next day ^.^ Unfortunately, kid don't like it because it doesn't taste sweet but a little coffee-bitter :P


Will try to increase the sugar so that it would be sweet mocha loaf (not sure it will affect the texture by increasing the sugar... will update right after I tried it out).

Here's a slice of the mocha loaf and recipe from HHB: