Materials ?

Medium gluten flour 1000g (400 for plain buns plus 200 * 3 for colored dough)

Milk or water or fruit and vegetable juice Grams is half of the flour

Sugar Moderate amount, about 30 grams. Add more if you like sweetness.

Pumpkin puree 100g

Cocoa powder 8g

Brown sugar 25g

Strawberry powder or strawberry juice Adequate amount of strawberry powder, 100g of strawberry juice

Seaweed or black sesame seeds Adequate amount of seaweed or black sesame seeds for garnish

Yeast Adequate amount of yeast About 1g for every 100g of flour

Dry flour (gluten) Adequate amount of flour to make the mixture again.

Molds It's best to have a small round mold

How to make cartoon animal-shaped fruit and vegetable buns ?

Pumpkin dough: cut the pumpkin into pieces and steam it. Take 100g of pumpkin puree and let it cool. Add 2 grams of yeast to a small amount of warm water. 200 grams of flour. Mix the three, knead into a smooth dough, cover with plastic wrap or a pan lid and ferment.

Cocoa dough: 100g water. Heat and melt the brown sugar. Let cool and add 2g of yeast. Pour the yeast water into 200g of flour ? 8g of cocoa powder ? A little powdered milk in a bowl, mix and knead the dough. Wait for fermentation. You can leave the milk powder out if you don't have it.

Original Dough: the most basic way to make buns. The white color is used more, so I used 400 grams of flour. 4 grams of yeast added 200 grams of warm milk or lukewarm water. Pour it into the flour bowl and pour it slowly, stirring with chopsticks while pouring. Knead by hand. Knead into a smooth dough. (Whether it's plain buns or fruit and vegetable buns, it's all about pouring the yeast water into the flour, pouring it evenly and slowly, so that the flour and yeast water blend well to ferment better haha)

Strawberry-flavored dough: There are no strawberries in this season, so the most natural strawberry juice can only be given up. I used strawberry powder and added 100g of hot water to melt it. Let it warm up and add 2 grams of yeast. Pour into 200g of flour and knead.

All the dough, you can add some sugar, and yeast together. You can shorten the fermentation time. I only added it to the plain dough. And, the plain dough was kneaded first. So, the plain dough fermented too fast! I had to put the slow fermenting cocoa dough and strawberry dough in the oven to ferment.

If you have time, or if you have two people to make it. You can make some more spinach, purple potatoes and carrots. (The leaves for the strawberries look better with spinach, but I'm doing it alone and I don't have time to make spinach dough, so I have to use cocoa-colored leaves instead)

It took about an hour to ferment, and it's twice as big as it was!

There is a hole in the dough when you press your finger into it, it doesn't spring back, and when you peel back the dough, it looks like this picture, so it's fully fermented.

Sprinkle a little dry flour and start kneading again! Knead until there is no air hole when you cut it, as shown in the picture.

This is for the piglets. 4 of them. Take 100 grams of plain dough and 4 of them. Knead it into a round shape. Strawberry dough appropriate amount, rolled into 3 cm pastry. The pig nose is pressed out with a round mold, the pig ears are cut out with a knife, and the pig glasses are cut out with seaweed, scissors. (Don't cut the eyes one by one, it's too much work. Several pieces of seaweed cut together, cut out the eyes of the same size, and save time and effort)

On the sheet rolled into pieces of strawberry shortcake and the daughter of the seaweed?

Decorating the dough and seaweed, both with chopsticks dipped in a little water to stick on can. Pig nostrils with chopsticks, I can't believe I forgot a pig nostril?

These shapes, except for the round shape, used a mold. All others were hand pinched, with a knife or scissors.

These dough, made 14 cartoon buns. There was about 3 or 4 buns of dough left, and I ran out of time, so I didn't make any more.

Shape the whole thing, put it in the cage drawer, and then eat the rise. About 15 minutes to rise well, the volume is the original 1.5 times.

Start steaming.

Cold water.

First on low heat for five minutes.

Then 20 minutes on high heat!

Turn off the heat and lift the lid after five minutes.

Out of the pan, fat white piggies?

Squeeze the deformed pandas!