Creative Ways to Cook with Dry yeast – Recipes You Haven’t Tried

Shake up your routine with these unexpected yet delicious Dry yeast recipes — fun, easy, and full of flavour.

Recipes with Dry yeast

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Traditional Javanese Apem Cake from Indonesia

In Javanese culture, kue apem holds symbolic meaning as a sign of seeking forgiveness and expressing gratitude, and is often served in traditional ceremonies such as slametan, nyadran, and ruwahan. It is also an important part of the Kirab Apem Sewu tradition in Surakarta, where thousands of apem cakes are distributed as a symbol of unity and a prayer for blessings.

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Scallion oil rolls and pepper and sesame rolls

Scallion oil flower roll and pepper flower roll are simply the "king bomb combination" in the carbohydrate world! When you break open the scallion oil roll, the onion fragrance mixed with the flour fragrance goes straight into your nose. It is soft when you bite it, and every bite is like sticking to the "scallion fragrance bomb". The pepper roll is even better, the numbing power of the pepper secretly climbs to the tip of the tongue, and the more you chew, the more addictive it becomes. Adults never make a choice, they must have one of each of the two flower rolls in their hands. Such a fragrant flower roll, losing weight? That's tomorrow's thing!

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Blueberry Jam Bread

Finally found time to make blueberry jam bread! You can add as many ingredients as you want to the jam you make yourself! The dough has a lilac glow, and the blueberry pulp is like a purple gem hidden inside. It looks amazing. When you open it after it's baked, the jam pops out and it's so sweet and sour.

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Super Soft Cheese Sausage Buns (Cream Version)

I love making high-hydration doughs, especially for bread—they turn out as soft as little lambs. (I used 625g of flour to make 14 buns.) The aroma while baking is impossible to hide; neighbors often come knocking to ask when the bread will be ready. (Next time, I’ll try a butter version.) I prefer savory bread, so I use less sugar and a bit more salt.

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Hong Kong Style Pineapple Bun

I never thought about making pineapple buns myself, in fact, I never thought I could do it. As for why I do this, of course it’s because of my baby son😅 The crispy pineapple skin, the soft sweet bun, and every bite has a light butter aroma. The recipe with less sugar and less oil makes this "evil" food feel a bit refreshing 😅