Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have hot cross buns using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Take Buns
- Get 1 cup milk
- Get 1/2 cup boiling water
- Make ready 2 tbsp sugar
- Get 2 tbsp active dry yeast
- Take 2 cup flour
- Make ready 100 grams butter
- Take 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Get 1 eggs
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 3 tbsp mixed spice
- Prepare 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cloves
- Make ready 1 tsp cocoa
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
- Get 1/2 cup sultanas
- Make ready 1/2 cup currants
- Get 75 grams glace mixed peel
- Prepare 3 cup flour (warmed)
- Take Pastry Crosses
- Get 1 cup flour
- Get 70 grams butter (chilled)
- Get 1/4 cup water (chilled)
- Take Glaze
- Prepare 3 tbsp caster sugar
- Take 6 tbsp milk
Brush tops of buns with egg wash. Hot Cross Buns are a traditional Good Friday treat! These slightly sweet yeast-leavened buns are spiced with cinnamon and speckled with currants, citron, and orange zest. Hot cross buns are made with an enriched dough.
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.
These slightly sweet yeast-leavened buns are spiced with cinnamon and speckled with currants, citron, and orange zest. Hot cross buns are made with an enriched dough. Reviews for: Photos of Hot Cross Buns I. 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.
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