Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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.

Hot Cross Buns is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Hot Cross Buns is something that I have loved my whole life.

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

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

Or, you can make the dough through the first rise, refrigerate the dough overnight, and then shape and bake the buns the next day. 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. 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:
  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.

The first definite record of hot cross buns comes from a London street cry: "Good Friday comes this month, the old woman runs. Leave to cool until it reaches hand temperature. One a penny, two a penny. Hot cross buns.🎶 Just in time for Good Friday and Easter Sunday, here's one of. Hot Cross Buns aren't a great delicacy, but this is the best recipe I've found.

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