Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. 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 recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Hot Cross Buns is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook hot cross buns using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Make ready Buns
- Make ready 1 cup milk
- Prepare 1/2 cup boiling water
- Prepare 2 tbsp sugar
- Take 2 tbsp active dry yeast
- Get 2 cup flour
- Prepare 100 grams butter
- Make ready 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Prepare 1 eggs
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 3 tbsp mixed spice
- Prepare 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Take 1 tsp ground cloves
- Prepare 1 tsp cocoa
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1/2 cup raisins
- Prepare 1/2 cup sultanas
- Get 1/2 cup currants
- Get 75 grams glace mixed peel
- Prepare 3 cup flour (warmed)
- Prepare Pastry Crosses
- Take 1 cup flour
- Prepare 70 grams butter (chilled)
- Prepare 1/4 cup water (chilled)
- Take Glaze
- Take 3 tbsp caster sugar
- Prepare 6 tbsp milk
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:
- Set oven to 220°c. Place flour in oven to heat while working through the recipe.
- Mix boiling water, milk, sugar in a large bowl. Sprinkle over the the yeast. Leave to stand until bubbles appear.
- Add 2 cups of flour to the yeast mixture and mix well.
- Cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl. Add egg, salt spices and vanilla. Mix well.
- Combine the spice/butter mixture with the yeast mixture. Add fruit and mix with well.
- Add most of the warmed flour to create a firm dough. Tip out onto a flowered bench and knead for 10 minutes. Cover with cling film and leave to rise until doubled in size.
- Knock dough down. Cut into 20 pieces and form into buns. Cover with cling film. Leave to double in size.
- While the buns rise make the pastry for the crosses. Add flour to a food processor. Cut butter into 9 cubes. Add to flour. Pulse to mix butter into the flour. While pulsing, add water in a stream until a bread crumb consistency is reached. Check that squeezing crumbs together will form a ball. Tip onto a floured bench and form into a ball. Refrigerate until the buns have risen.
- Roll pastry to around 3mm thin. Cut strips of pastry 1cm in width and long enough to cross the top of a bun. Brush milk onto pastry and place crosses on each bun.
- Cook buns at 220°c for 10-12 minutes.
- While the buns cook make the glaze. Mix sugar and milk in a pot and boil for 2 minutes.
- When buns are cooked generously brush glaze over buns while still hot. Place on a cooling rack.
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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