Roses Mantou

When I'm searching the recipe for bun, I saw this lovely purple sweet potato roses mantou. My sister birthday is almost here then I have an idea to make a bouquet of mix colour roses mantou because she like rose and mantou so much. Lot of preparation and work but result is so nice and she like it so much. But we can't get purple sweet potato here then I'm just replace with yellow sweet potato and mix with plain colour mantou. The result coming out like the roses is smiling.....everyone happy.

Recipes source : Wendyinkk

Yellow roses

250gm steamed yellow sweet potato( original recipe is purple sweet potato)

200gm water

500gm pau flour (I'm using low protein flour)

1 teaspoon baking powder

100gm sugar

50gm shortening

1/4 teaspoon salt

11gm instant yeast

White roses

Using plain mantou recipe.

For the leaf take some plain dough and add few drop of green colouring.

For the stick I'm using lolly sticks and wrap with green colour tissue paper.

Method :

1. Mash sweet potato, or blitz sweet potato with almost all the water to get a fine paste. Purple varieties tend to be firmer than orange ones.
2. With balance of water, mix with yeast.
3. Combine everything except shortening and mix to form a dough.
4. Add in shortening and knead until dough is smooth. If the dough is slightly sticky just continue to knead, the gluten just hasn't form.
5. Cover and let dough proof until double, about 1 hour.
6. Punch down dough and knead 1 to 2 minutes.
7. Divide dough to 90gm per portion. To form a rose bud.
8. Cover and let the formed dough proof another 45 minutes until double the size.
9. Steam on high heat for 12 minutes.

Rose Shaped Buns Method :

1. Make small dough balls of 15gm each. 
2. Flatten each ball and roll out circle.
3. With fingers, press the sides of the circle to make them flatter and create ripples(uneven)
4. Arrange 6 pieces of flattened dough, half stacking on top of each other.
5. Start rolling from the first piece on the bottom.
6. With a chopstick, saw the roll, it will roll while you saw, creating a fatter center than the sides.It will break into 2 rose bud.
7. Place rose buds upright on a piece of baking paper.
8. Let the buns rise to double and steam on high heat for 12 minutes.

Notes: 

In some rose I'm make two colour together, yellow and white. The result is nice.

Flatten out enough dough balls for one round of steaming before flattening out the rest. Keep the rest dough in fridge to prevent over proofing while you slowly form the rose buds. And keep the formed rose buds in the fridge(covered) to slow down the 2nd proofing while you shape. The shaping rose buds take time to complete. I'm making 24 roses is take me around the whole afternoon.