cute animal steamed buns for kids 可爱的动物馒头给孩子

Cute animal buns specially make for my son. It is a wholemeal buns, fiber is good and he had been eating a lot of fiber since young. Luckily he is not a choosy boy, he always enjoy his food in school or at home.

My little boy was helping me during the shaping, he always like to help his mom when he heard me doing buns. Aren't they too cute to eat? Haha...

CRAB

Son's said it was CATERPILLAR. Husband said it was LEECH!!

A cute BUTTERFLY

Simple ingredients to make this steamed buns. Minimum time required, I spend about 15 minutes to knead the dough by hand, 20 mins rest, 15 mins shaping, 20 mins to proof the buns, 20 minutes to steam the buns!

ingredients: (make 8 buns)
100g wholemeal flour
200g all purpose flour
70g sugar
1-1/2 tsp active dry yeast
1 tbsp shortening / veg. oil
155g water

1. combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl
2. knead dough by hand until smooth, about 15 mins
3. proof dough, rest 20 mins
4. knead dough again until dough become smoother than earlier
5. cut & shape into desired shapes
6. put shaped buns into steamer, let fermented another 20-30 mins
7. start steaming from room temp. water, high heat until start boiling then change to medium heat. Total steaming 20 mins from cool to end.
8. after times up, turn off heat, let buns stay in steamer for another 2 mins (so the buns wont shrink)
9. remove buns from steamer after 2 mins, cool on wire rack!

Below is the instructions to shape into CRAB & BUTTERFLY