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Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jan. 31, 2010

I have made this recipe twice. No more pizza pops in out house. The kids love the sweet dough and we put pizza toppings inside. We divide the recipe into 13 and is gives them a nice size for their lunches. I cheat a bit and add all the ingredients into my bread maker. I use instant yeast and mix with a third of the flour. Make sure the milk is quite warm mix in the sugar. Top with dry ingredients, make a small hole and pour in the oil, egg, and water. You might have to add a bit of water while this mixing process, my bread machine makes a loud clicking sound. I don't know how many rules I've broken by using the bread maker, but it works for me. We will be making this recipe lots. Thanks for sharing.

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Morgan

Reviewed: Feb. 5, 2010

I have been looking for soft sweet buns for so long and at last I have found it. I halved the recipe and did not glaze them (no more eggs). Other than that, I kept to the letter and it is the best bun recipe that turned out so well!

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UMMYAHYA

Reviewed: Mar. 12, 2010

I stumbled upon this recipe while searching for a sweet dough recipe to use for cinnamon rolls. The "cross between a bread and pastry dough" in the description caught my eye, so I whipped up a batch, omitting the sesame seeds & egg-wash step at the end of the recipe (naturally!). I was not disappointed!! My rolls turned out marvelous. Perfect taste and texture. I will be using this dough for cinnamon buns from now on. Thanks for the great recipe.

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Tamara

Reviewed: Jul. 21, 2010

I didn't have time to stuff my meat mixture in these so I made them into dinner rolls with the meat on the side. Everyone loved them. I will make these again but maybe decrease the salt by 1/2 tsp. These were really easy and really tasty!

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Juliann

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Sep. 4, 2010

Sooo yummy!

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Christina

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA

Reviewed: Sep. 18, 2010

My family loves Chinese Pork Buns, and this dough was PERFECT to make them at home. Follow this recipe, and you'll have great pork (or beef, or chicken, or veggie) buns too! The only thing I recommend is in step 1 to add the eggs, oil, and salt BEFORE the flour (or at least at the same time by making a well in the flour), as it is difficult to mix otherwise. I find that two hours is usually plenty for the first rise, and for my oven the final baking is usually only 20 minutes. These are so great, and wonderfully non-messy to eat. Enjoy!

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Griffin10

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Danville, California, USA

Living In: Walnut Creek, California, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 6, 2010

I made these buns with bbq pork filling. I am thinking about using my bread maker to knead and rise the dough next time. I'll update this when I see how that turns out. This recipe is easy to follow unlike other recipes for chinese sweet buns AND you don't need any special equipment really. They were super delicious too and I will make again for sure!

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ameaston22

Reviewed: Jan. 26, 2011

Very good recipe! Tastes just like the ones we get from our local asian market. I filled mine with a sweet coconut mixture to make chinese cocktail buns, very yummy:3 for anyone who is looking to cut down on a bit of work, i experimented and put all the ingredients in my bread machine on the dough cycle and it rose beautifully! The order i did it in: warm milk, oil(i used canola), eggs, sugar, salt, bread flour, and lastly the yeast (i accidentally added in the 2 tsp of water to the dough that was meant for the egg wash:P it didn't hurt anything).. then i let my bread machine do its thing:) after it was done kneading i let it sit in the machine for about 2 hours. After i filled and placed my rolls on the baking sheet i let them sit in the oven for an hour (for the first 20 mins i put a bowl of boiling water under the bread then took it out and let the rolls sit in the oven for the remaining 40 mins). I used a honey wash for a bit of a sweet glaze:) Turned out sweet, soft, and so so yummy! Thank you for the recipe!!!

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monipop

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jul. 23, 2011

Followed the instructions exactly and turned out great. Mine took just under 4 hours for the dough to rise to a light and airy consistency. Baked as above instructions informed and made them into original sweet buns that i topped with coconut and almond slivers; tasted amazing! I still have some more dough that I am going to fill with some red bean paste.

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