Bread is essential in Japanese food culture due to how portable and tasty it is. The melon bun (melon pan in Japanese) is an extremely popular type of bread that can be found in convenience stores, bakeries, and even in specialty melon pan shops. Among all the Japanese snacks out there, melon pan is one of the most iconic.

Due to some personal commitments i could not blog for the past two weeks. Even for another two months i could not post recipes frequently, hope from June I will be back to routine. Now coming to the recipe, for this month's We Knead to Bake we are baking Melon Pan / Japanese Melon Pan. Pans mean bread in Japanese, a popular type of bread bun. They are actually bread buns covered with a layer of pastry or cookie-like dough. Each bread dough dough is wrapped with a cookie dough. And on second…

Melon pan is the Japanese classic sweet bread shaped to look like a melon or cantaloupe. It has a crunchy and sweet outer crust with a super soft and fluffy inside. I will show you how to make this amazing Japanese bread at home! #melonbread #bread #melonpan #sweetbread

Melon Bread, or Melon Pan, is a sweet Japanese bread. The bread is commonly eaten in Japan and is a very popular snack and treat for people of all ages. This sweet is a bread topped with a crispy cookie crust. The outer cookie crust generally...

Buttery bread covered with a crispy biscuit layer. A sugary Japanese treat well-loved as an afternoon snack. Test your baking skills with this Melon Pan recipe!

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MATCHA MELON PAN Matcha melon pan, a classic Japanese sweet bread covered with a layer of Matcha craquelin with a super soft white bread inside! Unfed sourdough starter OR standard yeast, you pick your favourite version!

I first tried Japanese Melon Pan in a Japanese coffee bakery shop in Sydney. I loved the cute look of the bread and the taste was really yummy and unforgettable. I attempted to make it at home and it turned out awesome. I also made the turtle in more colors besides the traditional one.