Bakpao Cokelat (Dark Chocolate Buns)

I made some chocolate buns filled with dark chocolate earlier. My 4 yo been asking for chocolate buns for days and only today I prepared some. Obviously since I like playing with my food, I made shaped-buns instead just round, and yes, I shaped them into fishes.

My son was ‘helping’ in the kitchen and when he saw they were fish-shaped, he got so excited, while I got a little nervous, because I don’t know what kind of fishes are them buns ?

Is this a carp? It’s a mystery to me ? One of them even looks like a dolphin ?

 I had a little fun with one of the buns ? Don’t laugh, I don’t draw, you know ?

I thought to shape the buns into fishes since I had a bad dream a couple of nights ago, that I grew fish skin all over my buddy ?My husband had to wake me up ? Mermaid is cute (in kids cartoons), I know, but I wasn’t a mermaid in the dream, so nope, nope, nope ?

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 c unsweetened almond milk, lukewarm
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp active dry yeast
• In a 1 c measurement cup, spoon in 1 tbsp Dutch cocoa powder and 3 tbsp icing sugar, then spoon in enough flour to fill up the cup
• 2 c flour

• dairy free chocolate chips
• dark chocolate bars

How To

• In a bowl, mix milk, sugar and yeast, let stand to bloom for 5 mins
• In a large bowl, mix flour and cocoa powder mixture
• Pour in bloomed yeast into flour mixture, knead

• Cover with cling wrap and let stand in warm area for 20 mins
• Divide into 10 balls @75 g each

Roll flat each ball, fill with choc chips, shape into fishes

Preheat steamer, then work on the other 5 balls, fill with dark chocolate bars

• Steam buns for 8-10 mins

Ta-daaaa