Mini spiral milk mantou

Ingredients

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1 cup low protein flour
• 1 teaspoons baking powder
• 1½ teaspoons yeast
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 2 teaspoons cocoa powder
• Dissolve with some water, this will be cocoa paste. Set aside

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Preparation

• Mix flour, baking powder, yeast, salt and sugar together. Pour in milk (reserve some) and mix into a pliable dough.
• Divide the dough into 2 portions. Add in the cocoa paste in one of the portion and knead till well combined. Cover both dough and rest for 10 minutes.
• Transfer ½ of the plain and cocoa each from the rested dough on working surface. Slightly stretch into strips. Twist the strips together into a rope-shape.
• Flatten the rope-shape dough into rectangle. Brush the surface dough with some water. Gently roll the dough into swiss roll shape.
• Cut into 10-12 pieces and place on lined paper . Put the mantou into steamer and rest for 10-15 minutes. Repeat for the other half of the dough.
• Start steaming from cold water with medium heat. Once the water boiled, turn down to low-medium heat and steam further 7-10 minutes.
• Once the steaming time is over, off the heat. Leave the mantou inside the steamer for 1 minute before open the lid.