10/16/2026
We’re calling it.
Salt Bread, or Shio Pan as it’s known in its native Japan, is going to be your new favorite bread. It’s definitely ours! 🍞
After its creation in the Ehime prefecture in Japan 🇯🇵 around 2014, it was popularized by the pastry chefs at Pain Maison bakery, before making its way to Korea and the rest of Asia, before slowly trickling its way West.
Shio Pan takes traditional Patisserie Viennoiserie, a type of yeast bread and pastry dough 🥐 with origins in Vienna 🇦🇹 (something we are VERY familiar with,) fills each roll with its own cube of high quality butter and bakes then at a high temperature. 🧈The butter melts and seeps its way out, allowing the bottom of the rolls to be pan fried in it, while the rest of the rolls are cooked in a butter steam bath of sorts.
The result is nothing short of delicious. With its Kosher salt🧂 sprinkled crunchy crust, and warm, pillowy-soft layered interior, with its signature hole left behind from where the butter once lived, Shio Pan is truly something special.
And you know at Kat’s Scratch Bakery & Confections we had to give you tradition AND choices. Not only do we serve the classic salted Shio Pan, we also offer both sweet and salty varieties, like a honey butter 🍯 or garlic herb 🌿filled varieties, or one with both ube butter filling and ube paste swirled into the dough. 🍠Or one can truly take it to another level by having any flavor finished with a brûléed, crunchy sugar shell.
So whether you want to finally impress your in-laws this holiday season, or you’re just looking to experience the new “It-girl” of bread, you know where to find us! 🥖
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