Homemade Sweet Star Bread

This is a complicated recipe/method. If you're a 1st time bread maker or likes to experiment, I would suggest you read or buy a bread-making book. The one book that I like best is this book:'Bread' because it gives you the step-by-step techniques. Please refer to this book or go online to look up for some of the bread making terms that I am going to use here. This recipe came from this book with modifications being done to the ingredients.

Ingredients
1 pack of Instant yeast
1/2 tsp sugar
1 cup buttermilk
3 cups of unbleach bread flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 tbsp butter (melted)

Egg wash: 1 egg + 1 tbsp milk/water + pinch salt
Equipment: Food processor (if available)
Oven: 400F

Methods:

1. Pour the flour, baking soda, sugar, salt, and yeast into the food processor. Pulse the food processor so that mixture is mix.
2. Then add buttermilk one at the time. Pulse the mixture until the dough is smooth, soft, and moist. Then add the melted butter and pulse the food processor again for a few seconds.
   
3. Let the mixture stand in the food processor for 5 minutes. (This is the resting period).
4. Turn the dough mixture onto floured pastry board. Knead the dough for 10 minutes until it smooth, glossy, and elastic.
5. Put the dough in a bowl and cover it with towel. OR Put the dough in a buttered spray tupperware and cover it. Let it rise for 1 1/2 hrs making sure that the dough is doubled from it's original size.
6. After that punch the dough once or twice and put it back into the tupperware for another 10 - 15 minutes to rest.
7. Then roll out the dough and using your hands pinch the dough roundly. Shape the dough using a shape cutter and make it into balls.
8. Sprayed the small springform mold with butter and lay the dough balls into the shape you want.
9. Snip the center of each small dough after you finish laying them out. Then egg wash the shape dough.
10. Let it proof for 1 -1 1/2 hrs. The balls should rise double from its original size.
11. Then final egg wash the balls and sprinkle the granulated sugar on it.
12. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown. Before putting the springform into the oven. Ice steam the oven so that the oven is moist. How to ice steam the oven?

Ice steam the oven:

1. Put ice into a rectangular pan and put it into the oven.
2. Let it melt half way.
   
3. Then put the springform into the oven.
4. 25 minutes from the time you put the ice pan into the oven or when the ice is fully melted pull out the ice pan from the oven.
5. Let the dough bake until golden brown.

Enjoy the bread!!.. Make sure that the bread is fully cool before storing it.