Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, hot cross buns. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Hot Cross Buns is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Hot Cross Buns is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hot cross buns using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Take Dough:
- Make ready 250 g (2 cups) strong flour/white bread flour
- Prepare 250 g (2 cups) plain flour/all-purpose flour
- Take 1 tsp mixed spice
- Make ready 125 ml (1 cup) lukewarm milk
- Make ready 125 ml (1 cup) lukewarm water
- Take 7 g (2 1/4 tsp) active dry yeast
- Get 10 g salt
- Make ready 50 g sugar (3 heaping Tbsp)
- Get 1 egg, beaten
- Get 50 g unsalted butter (3 1/2 Tbsp)
- Prepare 100 g dried mixed fruit or raisins (a small bowlful)
- Make ready Crosses on top:
- Make ready some plain flour
- Get water
- Take Glaze:
- Take 2 Tbsp marmalade or apricot jam
- Make ready 2 Tbsp 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.
Instructions to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Mix all the dough ingredients in a large bowl until it forms a ball of dough you can knead. Remove to a board sprinkled with flour and knead for about 10 minutes until the dough is smooth, soft and elastic.
- Form the dough into a ball and put back into the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise until about doubled in size (usually 1 hour but if it's chilly it could take 2 hours).
- Once the dough is about double in size, bring it back to the floured board and knead it briefly to push out the air. Divide it into 8 equal pieces.
- With each piece of dough, form round buns. Place the 8 buns on a floured or lined baking tray (leave a little space in between) and cover lightly with a tea towel. Let rise for about another 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 200°C (400°F).
- To make the crosses, mix together a small amount of flour with a little water until it forms a thick paste. Use the paste to make crosses across the top of each bun.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes until the hot cross buns are golden. While the buns are baking, mix together the marmalade/apricot jam and water, then brush it over the buns when they come out of the oven (still hot!).
- Let the hot cross buns cool on a wire rack, and enjoy for Easter!
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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