Caterpillar Bean Paste Bread

Add milk, eggs, sugar and salt into the bread machine barrel

Add high-gluten flour and yeast

After stirring with chopsticks into cotton wool, start the bread machine kneading program for 20 minutes.

After kneading into a smooth dough, add small pieces of softened butter and continue kneading for about 20 minutes.

Take out a small ball of dough and use your fingers to gently pull out a non-breakable film.

Place the dough back into the bread machine barrel and ferment for 40 minutes for the first time.

Take out the fermented dough, fully deflate it, and knead it back to its original dough size.

Divide dough into equal portions. Cover with plastic wrap and rest for 10-15 minutes.

Take a small portion of dough and roll it out into a long strip.

Spread an appropriate amount of bean paste filling

Roll up horizontally from one end to the other.

Pinch the rolled end tightly with your hands, close the end downward, and arrange it into a caterpillar head.

The tail is also closed and pinched tightly, and twisted into a pointed tail.

Pinch the bottom tightly to prevent it from loosening after fermentation.

Make the remaining dough one by one and place it on a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper, spaced a certain distance apart.

Place in the oven, set to fermentation position, and ferment for 40 minutes. To maintain humidity in the oven, add a cup of hot water.

Make the puff pastry below. Add cubed butter

Heat over low heat until boiling

Pour in low-gluten flour and stir quickly

Stir until there are no lumps of flour, then remove from heat and cool.

Add the egg liquid in portions and mix evenly.

Mixed pastry dough

Put it into a disposable piping bag and cut a small slit at the tip.

Take out the secondary fermented bread and take away the water glass.

Brush a layer of egg wash on the surface.

Pipe S-shaped puff pastry on top and decorate with black sesame seeds to make caterpillar eyes.

Preheat the oven, place the baking sheet in the middle layer, and bake at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.

After the surface of the bread is colored, it is ready to be baked.

Take out the baked bread in time, cool it on the cooling rack until it is not hot to the touch, and store it in a sealed container.

Finished product pictures

This is the small caterpillar I made last time.

Finished product picture.

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