Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, hot cross buns. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Hot Cross Buns is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Hot Cross Buns is something that I have loved my entire life.
My hot cross buns are a cross (get it?) between a dinner roll and cinnamon roll. They're soft, yet a little dense with a deliciously spiced flavor from cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. These Hot Cross Buns are way better than the stock standard ones you buy from grocery stores.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hot cross buns using 22 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Make ready (for buns)
- Make ready 1 egg beaten
- Take 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Get 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp ginger
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Take 4 Tbsp brown sugar
- Make ready 3 1/2 Tbsp (50 g) unsalted butter, melted
- Make ready 3/4 cup + 3 Tbsp (225ml) warm milk
- Take 2 1/2 tsp instant dry yeast
- Prepare 3 3/4 cups (450 g) flour
- Prepare 3/4 cup (120 g) raisins, soaked in hot water
- Get (for cross dough)
- Take 1/2 cup (60 g) flour
- Get 1 tsp sugar
- Prepare 5 Tbsp water
- Make ready (for dorure: optional)
- Make ready 1 egg beaten
- Take pinch salt
- Prepare (for syrup: optional)
- Prepare 1 Tbsp sugar
- Take 1 Tbsp hot water
But hot cross buns can be a treat to make and eat any time of year, and they're perfect for breakfast. Brush tops of buns with egg wash. Hot Cross Buns are a seasonal yeast bread traditionally served on Good Friday. These enriched buns are spiced with ground cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice, and are studded with raisins (or currants) and.
Steps to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Place first 9 ingredients (from the egg to instant dry yeast) in a mixing bowl and combine well. Warm milk, about body temperature works well, but not too hot.
- Add flour into the bowl in several batches and mix the dough just until it comes together.
- Put the dough into a plastic bag and knead until it becomes smooth and glossy, about 4-5 mins.
- Drain the water from raisins and add into the bag. Knead until they are spread evenly in the dough.
- Let the dough rise in a warm place until it comes twice as big, about 1 hour. I used my heating pad under the bag!
- Devide the dough into 12 even pieces and make balls. Put them on your baking tray and let them rise another 1 hour until they become twice as big again. I covered them with plastic wrap to keep them from drying out.
- While you are waiting, make the dough for the crosses and dorure. Place flour, sugar and water in a mixing bowl and combine well until it becomes smooth. Put it into a small plastic bag.
- Place egg and salt in a small bowl, mix well and strain.
- Preheart your oven to 350°F/175 ℃.
- When your buns have risen, make the crosses on them. Cut a corner of the small bag, and squeeze the dough on the buns.
- Brush the dorure on the buns and put them in your oven. Bake for 20 mins.
- While you are baking the buns, make the syrup. Place sugar and hot water in a small bowl, and microwave 1 min.
- When the buns are done, brush on the syrup while they are still hot. Let them dry.
- Serve warm. Enjoy just by themselves, or with butter, preserves, coffee, milk tea, or whatever you like :)
Our hot cross buns recipe is easy-to-follow and makes the ultimate spiced, Easter treat. This sweetly spiced hot cross buns recipe takes a little effort but it's worth it. Hot cross buns are yeasted sweet buns that are lightly spiced and filled with dry fruit. They are marked on top with a cross, either in icing or as part of the dough. Hot cross buns, traditionally eaten on Good Friday, are steeped in superstition - a cross was cut into the top of them before baking to 'let the devil out' and some people kept buns from one Easter to the.
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