Flower-Shaped Red Bean Bread

Taste: Sweet; Technique: Baking; Time: One hour; Difficulty: Moderate.

Step-by-Step Cooking Instructions for Flower-Shaped Red Bean Bread

Pour ice water and egg liquid into the bread bucket, add sugar and salt diagonally, then add milk powder and flour, add yeast on top of the flour, place the bread bucket into the Donlim JD08 bread machine, select the kneading program for 13 minutes

After the first kneading, add diced butter, continue kneading for 17 minutes, the kneading time may vary for different models of bread machines, knead until a gluten film can be pulled out. Flatten the dough, wrap it in a plastic bag, and freeze in the freezer for 1 hour

Place the red bean paste in a small plastic bag, fold the bag into a 20*14CM rectangle, use a rolling pin to flatten the red bean paste, then refrigerate

Roll the frozen dough into a 20CM wide, 28CM long rectangle, place the chilled red bean paste in the middle of the dough

Fold the top part of the dough down to cover half of the red bean paste

Fold the bottom part of the dough up, pinch the seams of the dough tightly, pinch the sides tightly as well, ensuring the red bean paste is not exposed

With the seam side up, roll the dough into a 40CM long rectangle, press the bottom thin

Roll up, seal with the seam side down

Place the bread dough in a flower-shaped mold, cover with a lid (or use a 450g toast box), place it in the Donlim K40C oven, ferment at 35 degrees for about 50 minutes (place a bowl of warm water in the oven to create a certain level of humidity). The toast box has small holes on top, use a toothpick to check the fermentation progress, remove when it reaches 7-8 fullness

Preheat the oven for 13 minutes at 175 degrees, place the mold on the rack (the rack on the bottom layer), bake for 35 minutes, adjust the actual baking temperature according to your oven’s temperament.