Little Miss Bento

Inspired by the super cute bird bread buns sold in Tokyo, I decided to bake my own version of cute bird breads.

They might not be as cute as their Tokyo counterparts,  but I think the bird bread buns still look quite sweet and rather hilarious when placed together in a row.

Enjoying my freshly baked bird bread buns with some eggs.

Aren’t these RICE heart shape egg cups kawaii?

I almost squeal in joy when I spotted them at Motherswork recently. These rice cups come in a set of four pretty pastel colours of green, purple and two shades of pink.

They are so pretty on their own and will work really well for parties, children and table presentation~

Motherswork retails quite a wide collection of RICE tableware and stock new items regularly too. RICE is a children friendly melamine tableware range with really attractive and cheerful designs and colours.

Check out Motherswork’s stores for the awesome RICE tableware goods and lifestyle products too :)Four outlets in Singapore, at Great World City, Tanglin Mall, Marina Bay Sands and 112 Katong.

Happy shopping!

Would you like the recipe for the bird bread buns?

I hope you will enjoy making them!

Recipe for Bird Bread

Please note that I used a bread machine to knead the dough. If you are using hand, please adjust the water as the amount here might be too sticky to handle by hand knead method

Ingredients

• 200g bread flour
• 50g cake flour
• 20g butter
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 1tsp salt
• 1tsp instant dry yeast
• 125ml water
• 25 g egg (remaining egg please keep for egg wash)
• 8 almonds
• chocolate custard
• red bean filling (144g – divide into 8 portions of 18g) *you can also use other bread filling as you prefer

Method

1. Weigh and add the ingredients into your bread pan. I used my Panasonic bread maker for this recipe.
2. After the dough knead process, remove from bread pan. Knead and shape into one large round ball. Place in a big mixing bowl, cover with cling wrap and let it rise for 60mins.
3. The dough will double in size after the first fermentation process. You can do the dough test.
4. Punch out the air from the dough and transfer dough to worktop.
5. Knead and shape into one large ball. Divide into 8 equal portions of about 54-56g each.
6. Preheat oven to 170-180C.
7. Shape each portion into small round balls. Cover with damp lint-free cloth and let it rest for 15mins for second rise.
8. Roll out the dough and each into 14-15g and 40g aprox portions. Wrap the red bean filling inside the large dough and shape into a tear drop shape bread bun. This is for bird’s body. Shape the smaller dough into a small ball and place it on top to form the head of the bird.
9. Repeat for remaining 7 portions.
10. Let it rest for another 10mins for 3rd rise. Brush egg wash over the bread buns.
11. Cut the almonds into about 1/3, take the pointy side and press it into the dough with the pointy side facing out. This is for the bird’s beak.
12. Pipe the chocolate custard for the eyes.

Alternatively, you can perhaps use raisins or chocolate chips for the eyes. Just need to make sure you press the ingredients into the dough, if not it might pop out after the bread expands during the baking process. 

Sorry for the poor lighting.

These baking photos were taken yesterday night when I was baking and there wasn’t natural lighting in the house.

Have fun with baking these cute bird bread buns.

tip: Do explore the placement of the bird’s features (chocolate custard and almond) as it may result in different expressions of the birds. E.g. looking up, looking sideways etc.

Motherswork

Website: www.motherswork.com.sg

Four outlets in Singapore, at Great World City, Tanglin Mall, Marina Bay Sands and 112 Katong.

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