Stress Baking Resources - Asian Edition

[pshaw_raven]

Bake up a bunch of stuff and potentially have plenty to share with neighbors and friends. Feel free to leave comments with more recipes.

All about shokupan, aka milk bread. I've posted this one before, and this is a sort of master post that takes you through all the steps and explains what's going on. It seems long and intimidating but it's actually very easy. I like to knead a small amount of cocoa powder into some of the dough, then layer it into a cat-shaped baking pan to make calico kitty bread.

Monster Matcha Miso Cookies These cookies are awesome. I add white chocolate chips to mine. They're SO good.

Honk Kong Egg Tarts I don't know why I love these things, but I do. One of my favorite buffet places used to make good egg tarts. If you don't want to make dough, you can get away with buying frozen pastry dough, no one's going to judge you. Besides, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Dorayaki I'm a sucker for these things. Packages of dorayaki are NOT safe in my house. I WILL eat them.

Sponge cake It's basic Japanese golden sponge cake. Simple, but with a lot of possibilities. Run slices under a broiler briefly, then top with whipped cream or ice cream. Strawberry short cake. General face stuffing.

Comments

[dorchadas]

Shokupan!! sashagee got really into making it after I introduced her to it when we went to Mitsuwa (Japanese grocery store chain) and now she bakes it every week or so. We don't have to worry about it going bad because it'll all get eaten immediately.

I have some chestnut dorayaki I've been eating but I got those from the store--I've never tried baking them. sashagee made some once but we determined that the cost/time ratio was less efficient than just buying them, which means all that red bean paste is just sitting in our pantry.