EasterBake Wholemeal Hot Cross Buns
EasterBake Wholemeal Hot Cross Buns

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Hot cross buns are a traditional Easter dish. Featuring a spiced dough, cross shape, and orange icing, these are truly one of Learn how to make perfect hot cross buns using this deliciously spiced yeast dough. Brown sugar, raisins or currants, butter, and vanilla add. Easy to follow recipe for hot cross buns, see full list of ingredients and method below.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easterbake wholemeal hot cross buns using 17 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make EasterBake Wholemeal Hot Cross Buns:
  1. Make ready 150 mls warm milk
  2. Get 1 1/2 tsp dried fast acting yeast
  3. Take 1 egg
  4. Get 1 tbsp honey
  5. Get 30 g butter
  6. Make ready 320 g wholemeal bread flour
  7. Get 1/4 tsp salt
  8. Get 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  9. Take 3/4 tsp mixed spice
  10. Take 100 g currants
  11. Make ready 1 dessert apple
  12. Make ready —-
  13. Prepare For the crosses (optional)
  14. Take 50 g wholemeal flour
  15. Get 50 mls water
  16. Prepare 1 egg
  17. Get Coconut sugar (or brown sugar)

Classic hot cross buns, perfect for Easter. Remove from the oven, carefully turn the buns out of the pan (they should come out in one large piece), and transfer them to a rack to cool. Best Ever Easy UK Hot Cross Buns Recipe with yeast. The cross can either be a piped sweet icing marked after the bun is baked or a cross that's drawn on the bun before it goes into the oven using a simple flour water.

Steps to make EasterBake Wholemeal Hot Cross Buns:
  1. Pour 100mls of the warm milk into a bowl or jug and sprinkle the yeast on top. Set the bowl to one side and leave for 15 minutes to activate the yeast.
  2. In another bowl, gently whisk the remaining 50 mls of milk, egg and honey.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, mix your flour, salt and spices. Cut your butter into cubes and add into the mixing bowl. Rub the butter and flour together with your fingers until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.
  4. Peel, core and finely dice the apple. Add the diced apple and the currants into your mixing bowl containing the flour, and mix well.
  5. Add the egg and honey mixture to your yeast mixture and stir to mix. Add the wet yeast mixture into your large mixing bowl of flour and fruit. Stir well with a spoon and then use your hands to bring the dough together, you want the dough to be just dry enough to knead without it sticking to the surface. If the dough is too sticky add some more flour. If it is too dry then add some water.
  6. Knead the dough for 5 minutes or so, until it is smooth and slightly elastic. Then return the dough to the large mixing bowl, cover with a damp tea towel and leave in a warm place to rise.
  7. When the dough has nearly doubled in size you can make the buns. Wholemeal dough needs extra time to rise so be patient. Depending on your flour and yeast, it can take up to 1.5 hrs for the dough to rise.
  8. Gently knead the dough again to knock it down slightly. Then roll the dough into a fat sausage. Using a knife, cut the dough into 8 even sized rounds. Use your hands to shape each piece of dough into a round bun. Place each bun on a lightly oiled baking tray.
  9. Put the buns back into a warm environment and allow to rise again for half an hour.
  10. Pre-heat the oven to 200°C.
  11. While the buns are rising, make the crosses (steps 11 - 12 are optional). Make a dough by mixing together the extra 50g of flour and 50mls of water in a small bowl.
  12. Using floured hands, roll the dough into thin sausages and lay them in a cross over the hot cross buns.
  13. Glaze each bun with beaten egg and a sprinkle of coconut sugar if desired.
  14. Place a baking tray of boiling water at the base of the oven – this gives the buns a lovely crisp exterior. Then bake your hot cross buns for 20 minutes until they are golden brown and nicely crisp on the bottom. Allow to cool slightly before eating.

Best Ever Easy UK Hot Cross Buns Recipe with yeast. The cross can either be a piped sweet icing marked after the bun is baked or a cross that's drawn on the bun before it goes into the oven using a simple flour water. Hot Cross Buns served in a Tin Easter Egg! It is to be noted that prior to our Hot Cross Buns being an edible symbol of Christianity, there were similar small cakes made for the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, and as part of the pagan celebration of spring. Our two favorite buns just combined into one.

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