This Asian milk bread recipe is a triumph—the perfect recipe for soft, buttery, fluffy milk bread that comes together in a stand mixer! It’s the foundation for all of your favorite Chinese bakery items. Ever since we originally shared this recipe in January 2015, it’s been a hit! Now we’re showing you how to make it and talking you through all the little questions that have come up over the years!
Full recipe:
0:00 Intro
2:52 Measure wet ingredients
4:30 Measure dry ingredients
5:33 Mix the milk bread dough
8:16 How to get the right consistency
10:08 Can I do this by hand?
10:55 What dough should look like
11:27 Proofing instructions for milk bread
12:21 Prepare baking pans
14:02 What the dough looks like after 1st proof
14:23 Knead out the air bubbles
14:52 Shaping the dough and 2nd proof
21:10 Baking instructions
22:35 How to finish the milk bread
24:43 Perfect milk bread texture
26:08 Taste test
26:47 Blooper 🙂
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I could eat about 15 of those right now.
Oh yummy homemade rolls
How can you put a metal bowl in a microwave?
Absolutly loved your presentation. Excellient and so relaxing to watch. Iḿ going to try and make this. I shall have to do it by hand, lol. Also, i do not use a mircrwave for health reasons. Just do not like the microwave. I was thinking maybe to boil the cup of water and put ir in a hot oven, then turn it off and put the dough in there??? for an hour. As the oven is bigger, maybe i need a larger bowl of water. Thank you so very very much for your lovely presentation. Blessing, love and light to all.
Beautiful
Thank you for sharing this recipe. The bread looks really good!
im a baker, and sorry but your ratio was way off.
Clear concise and your diction is very fine and pleasant.
I'm not a bread machine user, threw it away less than a year after I bought it. My stand mixer is the same amount of work and I can watch it, no secrets like the machine. I do understand how little time folks can cut out of life for such culinary and dare I say artistic pursuits, so how kind of you to fill both needs.
Nothing says love like fresh bao. Char siu bao is a fave of mine still trying to get the char siu right without lee kum kee lol.
Bless you for spreading the love that is bao.
I love your video. So clear and concise ❤
Why put videos out then refuse to give the recipes without asking for data. No!
Hi, I’m Debbie. I’m new to your community. I haven’t tried many of your recipes, but the few I have tried have been so amazing that I couldn’t believe that I made them myself. Thank you all for doing what you do.
My question is this: Would this recipe be able to be adapted for baking in my Zojirushi bread maker? I look forward to trying it out!
Hi, are you using bread flour or plain flour? Thank you.
Looks absolutely delicious
do you use all purpose flour or bread flour?
Where did you buy your glass bread pan?
Thank you for sharing your recipe! This will show up at Christmas dinner this year!
Fluffy!!! Definitely going to make this!
I have been watching and using your recipes for years! You are my go to when I'm looking for authentic recipes. Thank you so much for offering up all your knowledge ❤❤❤❤
Did not see the weights in the recipe
Looks fabulous, wish I was there😉! Thank you for such a wonderful recipe.🥖💕👍
Bread looks absolutely delicios, fluffy and moist. This will be my first shot at making bread. Your details were on point! I have a kitchenaide mixer…do you remember what speed level you had it mixing on for the 15 minutes?Maybe a 4 or 5?
I hope someone has figured out a way to use a bread maker for this. I just got one and haven’t used it yet so not sure how to play with the dough setting for this recipe. I don’t have a mixer and can’t hand-knead. If anyone has done the dough cycle with this, please post details.
I used to buy little breakfast rolls at an Asian coffee shop in SF. They had ham & an egg slice on them and the dough was sweet. So good. Would love to have this for breakfast again. ❤️
Thanks Judy.
Well. nice to see you Queen Judy, I love milk bread and baking bread is my passion. Thank you for your tricks. Cheers
Have you tried to proof your dough in Instant Pot? My family complains when I make bread and they cannot use the microwave.
She’s adorable! Great recipe and I love my scale❤️
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe ❤❤❤
At about 14:00 mins – Your mom claims she’s a ‘lazy’ person. Rubbish – genius! (I too like shortcuts)
How I love your mom’s wicked sense of humour!