Hot dog flower buns from Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries (page 94) by Kristina Cho

Ingredients

bread flour
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active dry yeast
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Can substitute milk for heavy cream.

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Can substitute milk for heavy cream.
emilycaj on December 22, 2025

This was a time consuming project but very easy and very delicious. I didn't have any problems with the flowers sticking together despite cutting them all the way through as the book instructed, but I did really squish them together hard when I was shaping the flowers. Once they were baked, I froze many of these and then put them frozen in my kid's school lunch-- they were thawed by lunchtime and she loved them. Definitely a recipe to repeat!
jaxcap on August 28, 2023

I used the shaping instructions on The Woks of Life (https://thewoksoflife.com/flower-hot-dog-buns/), I think it looks nicer if you make 7 cuts instead of 5, and cut partially + twist vs. cutting all the way through to form the flower. I also made spiral ones on my own, you just roll a thin snake and then wrap it around the hot dog.
chawkins on June 09, 2022

This used the mother of all milk bread dough which was very nice as noted before. I made two shapes, the flower bun and a wool bread kind-of bun. Her method of forming the flower by cutting all the way thru and rearranging the cut pieces to form a flower shape produced a very lovely looking bun, however, once baked, the bread did not seem to be able to hold the hot dog pieces , so when you picked it up, some of the hot dog piece dropped out. I did not have this problem when I used other recipes where the rolled up hot dog dough bundle was only partially cut and the flower was formed by twisting the pieces to shape.