Japanese Steamed Sweetcorn Bun(Mushipan)

Recently I was addicted to the "NEW" Mango and Matcha steamed cake from one of the well-known local bakery known as Fourleaves. I am not sure whether have you tired it but I love it's fragrant, soft and fluffy texture which I could eat either 2 or 3 during breakfast. In this post, I would share with you this Japanese Steamed Cake/Bun,also known as Mushipan(????) which is one of the healthy breakfast or tea-cake that contains no butter or oil in the ingredients.

Thanks to my new overseas foodie friend, Namifrom Just one Cook I managed to try out some of the steamed cake recipes from "Cookpad", a Japanese website that Nami gave me. And with some online translation tools I roughly figured out the ingredients and steps for making these lovely quick and easy tea-cake which you might be interested too.

These steamed buns are very simple and easy to prepare and you can even make it for breakfast in less than 30 minutes if you prefer those freshly steamed bun that is pipping hot, fluffy and soft. As you venture further down on the recipe you will notice that the batter mixes up in less than 5 minutes, after which you could spoon it into prepared cups, steamed and enjoy the fluffy steamed bun.

Ingredients: (makes 4)100g Cake/Plain Flour

1 Teaspoon of Baking Powder

25g Caster Sugar

1 Large Egg, 60g

50ml Water

1/2 Cup Fresh/Frozen Sweetcorn Kernels

1 Tablespoon of Vegetable/Corn Oil, optional

1. Sift flour and baking powder in a bowl. Set aside. At the same time, preheat a steamer/wok filled with water till boiling point.

2. Using a balloon whisk beat egg and sugar together till foamy and pale in colour before adding in oil and stir till combined.

3. Next divide the sifted flour into two batches, stir in alternately with water to form a smooth batter.

4. Lastly stir in 2/3 of the sweetcorn kernels and reserve the rest as toppings.

5. Spoon the cake batter evenly into 4 prepared foil/ramekins cups that are lined with paper liners.

6. Place the cups in the steamer/wok(with boiling water in it), cover and steam over high heat for about 12 - 15minutes(depending on the size) or until a skewer inserted into one of the buns comes out clean.

For this first attempt, the texture of these "Mushipan" was still quite alright even though it is not as fluffy as those that I bought from the bakery. But I am sure practices make prefect and on making this it also widen up my knowledge on another interesting Japanese tea snack that I have not notice before. To read up more on this Japanese "Mushipan", you could also head over to Nami's blog on another related post HERE.

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