Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, hot cross buns. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

One a penny, two a penny. Hot cross buns.🎶 Just in time for Good. What Do Hot Cross Buns Taste Like? My hot cross buns are a cross (get it?) between a dinner roll and cinnamon roll.

Hot Cross Buns is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Hot Cross Buns is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have hot cross buns using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
  1. Prepare Buns
  2. Make ready 1 cup milk
  3. Make ready 1/2 cup boiling water
  4. Make ready 2 tbsp sugar
  5. Get 2 tbsp active dry yeast
  6. Make ready 2 cup flour
  7. Prepare 100 grams butter
  8. Get 1/2 cup brown sugar
  9. Prepare 1 eggs
  10. Get 1 tsp salt
  11. Get 3 tbsp mixed spice
  12. Get 2 tsp ground nutmeg
  13. Take 1 tsp ground cloves
  14. Make ready 1 tsp cocoa
  15. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
  16. Get 1/2 cup raisins
  17. Make ready 1/2 cup sultanas
  18. Prepare 1/2 cup currants
  19. Get 75 grams glace mixed peel
  20. Get 3 cup flour (warmed)
  21. Make ready Pastry Crosses
  22. Take 1 cup flour
  23. Prepare 70 grams butter (chilled)
  24. Take 1/4 cup water (chilled)
  25. Make ready Glaze
  26. Prepare 3 tbsp caster sugar
  27. Get 6 tbsp milk

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. 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:
  1. Set oven to 220°c. Place flour in oven to heat while working through the recipe.
  2. Mix boiling water, milk, sugar in a large bowl. Sprinkle over the the yeast. Leave to stand until bubbles appear.
  3. Add 2 cups of flour to the yeast mixture and mix well.
  4. Cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl. Add egg, salt spices and vanilla. Mix well.
  5. Combine the spice/butter mixture with the yeast mixture. Add fruit and mix with well.
  6. 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.
  7. Knock dough down. Cut into 20 pieces and form into buns. Cover with cling film. Leave to double in size.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Cook buns at 220°c for 10-12 minutes.
  11. While the buns cook make the glaze. Mix sugar and milk in a pot and boil for 2 minutes.
  12. When buns are cooked generously brush glaze over buns while still hot. Place on a cooling rack.

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. 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. Hot Cross Buns cannot be dashed off quickly but watching the dough rise is all very satisfying, and then your family can enjoy all that fruity, spicy stickiness.

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