Steamed Pumpkin Custard Buns Recipe

October agency pumpkin everything, as well as it sure as shooting does for my steamed pumpkin custard buns recipe.

My super cute steamed pumpkin buns recipe sees pumpkin baozi made alongside existent pumpkin inward the dough itself, stuffed amongst pumpkin spice custard filling, as well as moulded into lilliputian pumpkin-shaped buns.

The stalks are made alongside sultanas, making these lilliputian pumpkin pie buns completely edible. Well, except for the baking newspaper on the bottom that stops them from sticking. But I'thousand sure nosotros've all had that moment equally children when we bite enthusiastically into a steaming hot baozi having forgotten to take away the paper first...

To brand more than traditional, Chinese-tasting steamed pumpkin buns, simply omit the cinnamon, nutmeg together with ginger which make up the Western-manner pumpkin pie spices. But alongside the spices, it sort of turns the custard into a house pumpkin pie filling. Whatever yous take, the outcome will live delicious. And adorable.

You tin too encounter how I brand these on YouTube:

Ready? Let's get.

(Makes eight steamed pumpkin custard buns.)

Ingredients for Pumpkin Custard

two egg yolks
one whole egg
100g pumpkin purée
45g caster saccharide
50g custard powder
i/four tsp earth cinnamon
one/eight tsp earth nutmeg
ane/eight tsp earth ginger
150ml full fat kokosnoot milk
20g unsalted butter, melted
Pinch of salt

Ingredients for Bao Dough

500g bao (depression gluten/obviously) flour – obviously flour as well industrial plant
100g caster carbohydrate
i tsp fast activity (instant/slow) yeast
200ml warm H2O
i tbsp vegetable shortening (similar Trex or Crisco)
100g pumpkin purée

To Decorate:

8 sultanas

Method:

ane. Whisk all of the custard ingredients together, in addition to steam for almost 20 minutes until prepare. I make this past pouring it into a round cake can greased alongside a little vegetable crude oil.

ii. Leave to cool until it's merely warm – just cool enough to handgrip. Scoop the custard into a bowl, beat it alongside a wooden spoon until smoothen, in addition to dissever it into eight about ball-shaped blobs onto a big plate. Pop in the refrigerator to chill together with gear up fifty-fifty more for an hr more or less.

iii. Once gear up, use your hands to ringlet the blobs into neater balls. Pop dorsum in the fridge while y'all brand the bao dough.

4. Mix all the bao dough ingredients together inward a bowl, in addition to knead for well-nigh 15 minutes until smooth. Pop in a lightly-oiled bowl to help foreclose it from sticking, encompass with clingfilm, as well as get out to double in size (30 minutes to a hour, depending on how warm your room is).

v. Punch the dough back downwardly as well as split up it into viii portions, rolling each into a ball. Cover the balls loosely with clingfilm and leave to residual for x minutes.

vi. Flatten each dough ball into a disc, and pop a ball of custard within each, closing them upwards like dumplings.

vii. Using a blunt, unserrated knife similar a butter knife, grade lines across each baozi to create the pumpkin form: score deeply just don't cutting all the fashion through to the filling inward the eye. Cover them all over again loosely in addition to exit to rest for a further 10 minutes.

eight. Re-grade the lines inwards each baozi every bit they'll take begun to fifty-fifty out every bit the dough rises once again, and stick a sultana on acme for the pumpkin stem. Place them on squares of baking parchment to finish them from sticking on the bottom, steam for xx minutes, together with serve (if yous require to do this inward a few batches, place the ones yous aren't steaming even so inward the refrigerator to stop them from overproofing).

Enjoy, together with take fun.

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