Mix Seeds & Nuts Sultana Bread Roll

Before I use to buy bread from one of my favourite Asian Bakery and one of my all-time favourite is the Mixed Seeds & Nuts Sultana Bread. That bakery isn’t near my neighbourhood, so I always need to drive 45 minutes to another more Asian populated suburb to get it. My family use to buy heaps of this bread from the bakery and it will be all gone as our breakfast next day. For all the time and effort we put in, it is quite a hassle to get this bread. So I tried to replicate this bread with my favourite bread recipe and surprisingly it turn out to be 80% similar to the original bread like. Now we don’t need to drive all the way for the bread anymore, it is very easy and simple to make at home.

Hong Kong Style Sausage Bun 腸仔包

Back then when I haven’t pick up baking as my hobby, I thought making bread or bun is one of the toughest and time consuming task to do. After getting to know more about baking, making bread was never hard to make at all, it need the least attention to make I suppose. Unlike my other baking such as macaron, I need to constantly checking if it is in the right texture and you need to be super accurate. Now making bread has become one of my daily routine, now my family rarely buy bread from outside. I really should thank to my friend who gave me a bread maker for Christmas present.

Easter Idea - Brown Sugar Cranberry Hot Cross Bun

Happy April Fool everyone. Hope you didn’t any heart attack joke. Easter is now officially 3 weeks to go which mean another holiday/ celebration time. Unfortunately I will need to dig my head into my book and study for exam at the end of April (at least I have more time to study while everyone going out for holiday). But that’s fine; I can still have my own mini Easter party with my family by having a huge Easter feast with my family.

Since the last Easter Idea of Yoghurt Panna Cotta in Easter chocolate Egg, I’m going to show you another popular Easter food which you can easily find in store or bakery - Hot Cross Bun. My dad use to get them when I was young but back then I didn’t appreciate the flavour of cinnamon and sultana as much and so do my mum. So I did a different version by substitute cinnamon and sultana with brown sugar and cranberry. I love the taste of brown sugar more than caster sugar as it has some slightly cane sugar aroma and also make the taste has more layers. And Cranberry has been quiet a popular dried  fruit in the past few years, I like it not as sweet as sultana and has a little bit sour taste as well.