Easiest Way to Prepare Yummy MUSHI PAN Japanese steam cake

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MUSHI PAN Japanese steam cake. The Japanese steamed cakes are made with very simple ingredients: flour (all-purpose flour or cake flour), baking powder, eggs, milk, sugar, and neutral-flavored oil (such as vegetable oil). While Chinese steamed bun called Mantou (饅頭) uses yeast as a leavening agent, Japanese steamed cakes use baking powder. Mushi-pan (Japanese Steamed Cake) Sweets, Vegetarian.

Mushi Pan is the Japanese version of these steamed cakes.

I was attracted to this Japanese steamed cake posted by Agnes [here] then by Zoe [here].

The Mushi Pan looks so lovely and the recipe looks easy and simple.

You can have MUSHI PAN Japanese steam cake using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of MUSHI PAN Japanese steam cake

  1. It’s 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.

  2. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.

  3. You need 2 tbsp of milk.

  4. You need 2 tbsp of sugar.

  5. It’s 1 tbsp of oil.

  6. You need 1 of egg.

  7. It’s 1/4 cup of corn kernels boiled.

  8. You need 1/4 cup of shredded cheez.

Agnes and Zoe did mention that we can make these steamed cakes with various flavours such as pandan, matcha, corn, chocolate and with azuki/red-bean flavour.

This basic mushi-pan 蒸しパン (Japanese steamed cake) originates from Nami (Just One Cookbook).

Both are very moist, fluffy and yummy!

These steamed cakes are extremely easy to make and doesn't require any fanciful and cooking tool to steam and.

MUSHI PAN Japanese steam cake step by step

  1. Take a bowl add all purpose flour and add baking powder mix well.In another bowl crack one egg add milk,sugar and oil..

  2. Mix it nicely and add this into flour and whisk it till it gets smooth..

  3. Next add grated cheez and corn kernels and fold it with spatula take steel bowl keep cup cake liner of paper or silicone any will do pour the batter into half in each mould in a big pan bring water to boil..

  4. Keep the steel bowls in that and cover the pan with the lid and let it steam for 15 to 20 minutes when it is done let it cool down on room temperature..

  5. And serve this yummy steam cake in breakfast or in snacks for childrens you can make this steam cake sweet and savoury for making in choco flavour just add cocoa powder and choco chips making is easy and fastest and steam cake taste different..

This weekend I made cocoa mushi pan.

A funny sounding name that basically means steamed cake.

It's coming from Japan and the consistency is a bit chewier which I love and which reminds me a bit of the consistency of "tteok", Korean rice cake.

Also the surface is super smooth which means you can have fun in decorating.

Mushipan in Japanese means steamed bread but it is more cake-like than bread-like.