Mushi pan is a soft Japanese cake that can be easily made with common ingredients found in a fridge and a pantry. In this recipe, I will show you how to make these cakes sweetened with honey and decorated with cute Winnie the Pooh faces.
What is mushi pan?
Mushi pan is a Japanese steamed cake. “Mushi” literally means “steamed” in Japanese, and as the word describes, the cake is steamed instead of baked. “Pan” means “bread” in Japanese, but the texture is closer to spongy cake than bread.
What does mushi pan taste like?
A plain mushi pan is subtly sweet, and it is much less sweet compared to common Western cakes. You also have the freedom to customize the flavors by adding cocoa powder, matcha, and corn, etc.
What is special about this mushi pan?
For this recipe, I used honey to sweeten the mushi pan instead of sugar. Also, these cakes come with cute Winnie the Pooh faces 🙂
Ingredients List
- All-purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Honey
- Egg
- Milk
- Neutral-flavored oil (vegetable oil, canola oil, etc.)
- Black food coloring
- Golden yellow food coloring
Instruction
Preheat the oven to 340F (170C). Place 8 cupcake liners in a muffin tin.
Mix all-purpose flour, baking powder, and a pinch of salt in a bowl. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk eggs, milk, honey, and oil.
Next, add dry ingredients to the honey mixture and mix until combined.
Then, scoop 1 tablespoon of batter out to a small cup and add black food coloring, and mix well. Set aside.
Add golden yellow food coloring to the main cake batter and mix well.
Pour the yellow cake batter into the muffin tin (divide the batter into 8). Tap the muffin tin on a countertop to remove any air pockets. Pop any bubbles on the surface with a toothpick.
Put the black cake batter in a piping bag and snip a tiny corner off to create a hole about 2mm in diameter.
Draw Pooh’s face on each cake batter.
Place the muffin tin in a deep roasting tray and pour warm water around the muffin tin. Steam bake the cake for 15-20 minutes in the preheated oven.
Once all cakes are cooked through, cool them down on a rack.
Mushi pan can be enjoyed as is or additional honey on top if you prefer more sweetness 😉
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Winnie the Pooh Mushi Pan – Steamed Cake
Equipment
- Mixing Bowls
- Small cup
- Cup cake tin
- Cup cake liners
- Piping bag
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour 150g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- 4½ tablespoons honey
- 2 beaten eggs
- 6 tablespoons milk
- 2 tablespoons natural-flavored oil (vegetable, canola oil, etc.)
- black food coloring
- golden yellow coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 340F (170C). Place 8 cupcake liners in a muffin tin.
- Mix all-purpose flour, baking powder, and a pinch of salt in a bowl. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk eggs, milk, honey, and oil.
- Next, add dry ingredients to the honey mixture and mix until combined.
- Then, scoop 1 tablespoon of batter out to a small cup and add black food coloring, and mix well. Set aside.
- Add golden yellow food coloring to the main cake batter and mix well.
- Pour the yellow cake batter into the muffin tin (divide the batter into 8). Tap the muffin tin on a countertop to remove any air pockets. Pop any bubbles on the surface with a toothpick.
- Put the black cake batter in a piping bag and snip a tiny corner off to create a hole about 2mm in diameter.
- Draw Pooh’s face on each cake batter.
- Place the muffin tin in a deep roasting tray and pour warm water around the muffin tin. Steam bake the cake for 15-20 minutes in the preheated oven.
- Once all cakes are cooked through, cool them down on a rack.
- Mushi pan can be enjoyed as is or additional honey on top if you prefer more sweetness
