Introduction.
Mom's birthday, she especially does not like buttercream, in order to have a ritual, try to make a steamed bun cake for her, also a token of appreciation.
Ingredients
Sugar: 50g, coloring: some, flour: 600g, water: 100g, milk: 200ml, yeast: 6g, lard: a little bit
Steps
Step 1: Knead the flour with water, milk, yeast, sugar and lard, roll out the dough into a centimeter thick sheet, and use a large bowl to snap out a round embryo.
Step 2: Roll out a thinner sheet of dough, larger than the round embryo, apply some water on the round embryo, cover the embryo with the dough sheet, and use a spatula to cut off the excess edges along the edge of the round embryo.
Step 3: Take a small piece of white dough and knead it with blue coloring.
Step 4: Roll out the sheet and cut out 2cm wide strips.
Step 5: Take a utensil with a small arc and cut out the edges in a jagged shape like this for making waves.
Step 6: Place the wave in a circle around the finished base, and make a big wave with the rest of the dough pieces and place it on top of the base.
Step 7: Take a little more white dough and add red coloring, knead evenly as shown in the picture.
Step 8: Take a small white dough ball and flatten it, roll a long piece of blue dough around it, put a small piece of blue dough in the center, flatten it, and roll it out with a rolling pin into a thick disc with a diameter of 5 centimeters.
Step 9: As shown in the picture.
Step 10: Press the shell lines with a spatula.
Step 11: Roll out the shell shape.
Step 12: Red color same operation.
Step 13: Use chopsticks to pick up from the center, fold it in half, roll a little tiny bun and put it in the center, the shell is ready.
Step 14: Roll out the white dough into a long mermaid body, thick at one end and thin at the tail end, roll out a thin blue dough sheet and wrap it around the tail end to make a tail.
Step 15: Don't make the tail too long, I made it a little bit longer, then cut it shorter.
Step 16: Place the shell on the base, remember to apply some water on the contact surface to fix it. Put the mermaid's body on it and roll a white dough for the head.
Step 17: Roll out a thin piece of red dough for the tail.
Step 18: Roll two hands and install the tail.
Step 19: Roll some thin red strips for the hair and install a small mouth.
Step 20: Make a little bit of white dough with black pigment, make eyebrows and eyes, press out the upper and lower lips with a knife for the mouth, and add a tiny nose.
Step 21: Use a straw to press fish scales on the mermaid's tail, roll some small white balls to make pearls, and make a small starfish to put on the tail.
Step 22: In order to avoid the expansion of the head and body effect can not be controlled, rolled two steamed buns in the mermaid's head under the pad, do fixed with. The steaming result was fine, but it didn't run out of shape.
Step 23: Because it takes too long, the back of the dough is poorly molded, and the little head is not very regular.
Tips
1,The dough will ferment while you are making it, so it's best to keep the unused dough and each step of the process sealed in the refrigerator.
2,Each time before using the remaining dough should be deflated.
3,A little water is recommended for any mounting and contact surface.