How to produce the best quality of sweet buns? Here are simple steps for you to follow.

Ingredients
Ingredient is the most important factor to determine the quality of sweet buns. Never ever change the amounts of ingredients recommended by the recipe. Try to use the better quality ingredients if budget is allowed. Make sure the ingredients well-prepared before starts anything else. Get the accurate amount of flour, sugar, yeast, egg, salt by using measuring scale.

Dough
To form the bread dough, you need to first combine the ingredients inside a large bowl. Then transferring the batter to work surface and continue kneading it until it becomes smooth and elastic bread dough. The kneading process should take about 15-20 minutes; however it depends on whether you knead it by hand or machine. For sure kneading by machine save lots of energy and time, indeed the result is better.

Fermentation
Most sweet bun recipe does not clearly stated the accurate fermentation time. Somehow the fermentation is depending on weather and humidity of a place. In certain countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, the bread fermentation comes easy where these countries are principally facing hot weather and high humidity level for four seasons. They can place the dough all around for fermentation, indeed not relying on fermentation machine. The fermentation is important for making good quality sweet bun. You should leave the dough proof for at least 40 minutes or double in sizes.

Shaping
After fermentation process, use your knuckles to punch out the excessive air from the dough. Afterwards you should shape the dough now. The shaping is all about the skills. The simplest way is to form it to a round shape and fill whatever ingredients you want to the dough. Perhaps you like the dough to look fabulous with varieties of shape, for example lotus, braids, cube, roses, swirl etc. Learn more about the bread shaping skills from cookbooks and recipes.

Baking
Grasp the golden baking time for the buns. Apply the baking period that was recommended by the recipe. Nonetheless some ovens or microwaves worked in other ways where you need to add or decrease few minutes to get the desired result. Therefore make sure you know your baking devices well in order to get excellent quality of sweet buns.