Steamed Rose Buns
These steamed rose buns are soft, pillowy, and shaped to look just like beautiful blooming roses, made from a simple 4-ingredient yeast dough tinted with red food coloring. Perfect for Mother’s Day, birthdays, or Valentine’s Day. They can even be made sugar-free by skipping the powdered sugar on top. They steam up fluffy, fragrant, and gorgeous every time. Also try my Vegan Panettone, Chinese Steamed Buns, or Vegan Cinnamon Rolls.
Steamed Rose Buns
These 4-ingredient Steamed rose buns are so easy to make and are perfect for any occasion, Mother's day, Birthdays, Valentine's Day…You can make these buns sugar-free too, by skipping the powdered sugar/icing sugar on top !
Ingredients
- 1 cup (250 ml) warm water (+ 1 tbsp at a time until dough just comes together) (90F-110F; 43C-32C)
- 3 drops Red Food Coloring Gel
- 2 tsp (6 g) Active Dry Yeast
- 3 1/2 cup (500 g) All-Purpose Flour
- 1 1/2 tsp (6 g) Baking powder
Instructions
- To 1 cup of warm water (90F-110F; 43C-32C), add 3 drops of red food coloring gel. Mix well.
- Add active dry yeast. Stir and let stand for 5 minutes until foamy.
- To another bowl, add flour and baking powder. Mix well.Then add the yeast solution. Mix until well combined. If the dough is too dry, add 1 tablespoon of water at a time until the dough just comes together.
- Cover the bowl and let stand for 5 minutes ONLY.
- Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface.Dust dough with flour.
- Roll out dough into a 22×16 inch (55×40 cm) rectangle.Using a cookie cutter 3 ¾ inch (9.5 cm) diameter, cut out 20 circles from the dough.
- Place 4 circles overlapping each other on the work surface.The roll another circle into a stick.Place it at one end of the 4 overlapping circles and roll all of them into a bigger cylinder as shown in the video.Cut the cylinder into half. Carefully open the petals as shown on the video.Repeat for the rest of the dough.
- Place the flower dough on a piece of parchment paper, then into a steamer basket.
- Add boiling hot water to steamer/wok. Place the steamer basket into the steamer, cover and steam on HIGH HEAT for 12-15 minutes.DO NOT OPEN THE STEAMER DURING STEAMING.
- Dust with icing sugar (optional).
