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Hot Cross Buns is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Hot Cross Buns is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
One a penny, two a penny. Hot cross buns.🎶 Just in time for Good. What Do Hot Cross Buns Taste Like?
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first 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:
- Get Buns
- Make ready 1 cup milk
- Get 1/2 cup boiling water
- Make ready 2 tbsp sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp active dry yeast
- Take 2 cup flour
- Make ready 100 grams butter
- Take 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Prepare 1 eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Get 3 tbsp mixed spice
- Prepare 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1 tsp ground cloves
- Take 1 tsp cocoa
- Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
- Prepare 1/2 cup sultanas
- Get 1/2 cup currants
- Make ready 75 grams glace mixed peel
- Prepare 3 cup flour (warmed)
- Take Pastry Crosses
- Take 1 cup flour
- Get 70 grams butter (chilled)
- Make ready 1/4 cup water (chilled)
- Prepare Glaze
- Make ready 3 tbsp caster sugar
- Get 6 tbsp milk
The Tradition Of Hot Cross Buns. Traditionally eaten on Good Friday to mark the end of Lent, these plushy and slightly spiced breads studded with currants inside and drizzled with icing on top hold deep. These Hot Cross Buns are way better than the stock standard ones you buy from grocery stores. Those are pumped with preservatives and have a distinct artificial flavour about them.
Instructions 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.
Classic hot cross buns, perfect for Easter. Spoon into a piping bag with a small nozzle. Pipe a line along each row of buns, then repeat in the other direction to create crosses. 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.
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