Kitchener bun World War I led to its renaming in honour of the British field marshal Lord Horatio Kitchener. Kitchener bun A Kitchener bun is a type of sweet pastry made and sold in South Australia. It consists of a bun sometimes baked, sometimes fried, made from a sweet yeasted dough similar to that used for making doughnuts, split and then filled with raspberry or strawberry jam and cream, most often with a dusting of sugar on the top. The Kitchener bun resembles the Berliner, a pastry of German origin – although distinguished from it by an open face and the use
Cocktail bun finished with a sprinkling of sesame seeds. Taiwanese version of the cocktail bun are slightly firmer than their Hong Kong counterparts, but maintain the same filling and sesame seed dusting. Cocktail bun The cocktail bun () is a Hong Kong-style sweet bun with a filling of shredded coconut. It is one of several iconic types of baked goods originating from Hong Kong. The cocktail bun is said to have been created in the 1950s in Hong Kong, when the proprietors of a bakery resisted the wasteful disposal of unsold but perfectly edible buns. The solution was to incorporate these buns