I love cinnamon buns. They have the perfect combination of sweet brown sugar and cinnamon. I decided to use an old recipe and make it fancy by adding a twist. I first used a recipe that I made many years ago for a sourdough cinnamon bun and then instead of the classic rolled form, I…
Tag: buns
Sourdough Discard Dinner Rolls
I still have my sourdough starter from the beginning of the pandemic. Its a little sad in the back of the fridge and I tend to forget to feed it. I discovered this recipe to use up some of the sourdough starter since I don’t bake with it often. Its an easy to go to…
My Grandma’s Mantou Recipe
There are a lot of things that you can take for granted especially during these time. I look back to days when I used to bake and cook with my grandma and I would reminesce on some of the food we ate. One particular recipe was chinese steamed buns. We used to make them almost…
Two Takes on Cinnamon Buns
During my trip to Alaska, I found this recipe book. It had lots of different recipes using sour dough. There was cakes, breads and even cinnamon buns. I wanted to see if sourdough cinnamon buns were better than regular cinnamon buns so I decided to try out both recipes. The sour dough cinnamon bun recipe…
Nerdy 30 Minute Buns
It was close to the day before the big Alcan DragonBoat Festival in Vancouver (close… I mean the day before) and I wanted to surprise my team with some snacks. I decided they had to be nerdy and awesome. About 4 years ago, I joined a dragonboat team called DragonBoat Z. It was an amazing…
Too much buttermilk. Why oh why?…. Let’s make Fan-tans
We love buttermilk in baking, but there are times when you go to the grocery store and they are out of the smallest size of buttermilk. You end up leaving the store with a 1 L carton of buttermilk. There are various things that you can make with leftover buttermilk like Fan-Tans (buttermilk rolls). Not…
Bear buns… (not bare bums)
I’ve always been fascinated with baking and one of the things I love to bake is bread. Bread is so versatile. It can sweet or savoury, filled with stuff or just by itself. The bread recipe I decided to make was from the Company’s Coming Bread cookbook. I chose ‘soft buns’ from this…
EAT it NOW or EAT it LATER 