Learn How To Make Winnie-The-Pooh Surprise Meringue & Pastries With These Recipes

By Karmen on 13 Nov 2020

Digital Editor

In the mood to flex your baking skills? Taiwanese home baker Kokoma has plenty of kawaii baked creations to give you some inspiration.

Some of the most adorable ones are the Winnie-the-Pooh surprise meringue cookies and egg yolk pastries. She has shared her step-by-step recipes so you can try making them yourself at home!

Keep reading to check out the recipe!

Recipe 1: Winnie-the-Pooh meringue cookie with a surprise

Winnie-the-Pooh meringues are cute enough on its own but adding surprise sprinkles inside takes it up a notch further.

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Ingredients for five meringues:

35g of egg whites
60g of sugar
Orange, green, pink, yellow and black food colouring

Steps:

1. Mix the egg whites and sugar and whisk until smooth.

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2. Divide into 6 bowls and add the food colouring to 5 of them.

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3. Pipe the mixtures to create Piglets, pumpkins and bats.

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4. Bake at 90 degrees for 2 hours.

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5. To make the pumpkin Pooh, cover a glass with plastic wrap and paint in stripes of orange and red.

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6. Pour in the yellow mixture and pipe into five meringues.

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7. Paint on Pooh's face using the black mixture.

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8. Decorate Pooh with the pumpkins, bats and Piglets, then bake at 90 degrees for 2 hours.

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9. Cut a hole at the bottom of the meringue and fill it with sprinkles. Use melted chocolate to seal it back up and let it rest until the chocolate hardens.

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Recipe 2: Winnie-the-Pooh egg yolk pastry aka dan huang su (蛋黄酥)

Adorable Pooh is made of flaky layers of pastry crust and stuffed with red bean and salted egg yolk. Although mid autumn festival is already over, there's no reason we still can't enjoy this delicious snack especially if it's this cute.

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Ingredients for 6 pastries:

6 salted egg yolks
Red yeast rice pink or red food colouring
23g of cold water
10g of icing sugar
20g of red bean paste
Yellow gardenia powder or yellow food colouring
40g of low-gluten flour
45g of butter
62g of all-purpose flour

Steps:

1. Dough: Mix the flour, icing sugar, cold water and 25g of butter together in a bowl. Divide into 2 equal doughs.

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2. Food colouring: In another bowl, mix the red and yellow colouring, 20g of butter and low-gluten flour yellow together. Divide them into three parts: one 30g yellow (beehives), and one 15g yellow & one 15g red (Pooh).

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3. Wrap the red bean paste around each egg yolk.

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4. Line the strips of red and yellow doughs on one half of the main dough and roll with a rolling pin until combined.

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5. Roll it up such that the yellow colour is in the middle surrounded by red.

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6. Cut it up into three pieces and roll it into a circle.

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7. Wrap the red bean paste and egg yolk with the dough to create Pooh. Repeat for the other two dough pieces.

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8. Mix the other half of the main dough with 30g of yellow dough and wrap them around the remaining three red bean & egg yolks to create the beehives.

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