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Hot Cross Buns is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Hot Cross Buns is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
The BEST recipe for Hot Cross Buns I've ever had. I've used this recipe for years and had many people request the recipe. The only change I make is to add mixed dried fruit and peel as a substitute for most of the currants AND I remove the dough to a bowl sprayed with Pam and let it rise (covered with a towel) in a warm place.
To get started with this 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:
- Make ready Buns
- Take 1 cup milk
- Make ready 1/2 cup boiling water
- Prepare 2 tbsp sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp active dry yeast
- Prepare 2 cup flour
- Take 100 grams butter
- Make ready 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Make ready 1 eggs
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Get 3 tbsp mixed spice
- Prepare 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Make ready 1 tsp ground cloves
- Make ready 1 tsp cocoa
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
- Prepare 1/2 cup sultanas
- Make ready 1/2 cup currants
- Get 75 grams glace mixed peel
- Make ready 3 cup flour (warmed)
- Get Pastry Crosses
- Make ready 1 cup flour
- Take 70 grams butter (chilled)
- Make ready 1/4 cup water (chilled)
- Make ready Glaze
- Get 3 tbsp caster sugar
- Get 6 tbsp milk
That said, you can form the buns the day before and let them rise in the refrigerator overnight, then bake the next day. Or, you can make the dough through the first rise, refrigerate the dough overnight, and then shape and bake the buns the next day. Hot Cross Buns were originally a Saxon tradition which became an Easter tradition to celebrate Good Friday. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk.
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.
One a penny, two a penny. Hot cross buns.🎶 Just in time for Good Friday. Mix the rum or apple juice with the dried fruit and raisins, cover with plastic wrap, and microwave briefly, just till the fruit and liquid are very warm, and the plastic starts to "shrink wrap" itself over the top of the bowl. When the buns have risen, remove the polythene bag and the greaseproof paper. Spoon the flour mixture into a piping bag (or a plastic food bag with a corner snipped away) and pipe a cross on each bun.
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