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Thank you to Bob’s Red Mill for sponsoring this post!

This Chinese bakery-inspired coconut bun recipe has been a long time in the making. My initial inspiration came from a sliced coconut bread that Mama Lin used to buy from Chinese bakeries. The bread was like Japanese milk bread with ribbons of sweet coconut running inside and on top of the loaf. It was one of my favorite treats and I wanted to recreate that nostalgia at home.  However, trying to develop a recipe for that bread has proven to be more difficult that I imagined. Although I baked one loaf successfully, I haven’t been able to replicate that success....