Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Hot Cross Buns is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Get Buns
- Prepare 1 cup milk
- Get 1/2 cup boiling water
- Prepare 2 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp active dry yeast
- Get 2 cup flour
- Make ready 100 grams butter
- Take 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Prepare 1 eggs
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Get 3 tbsp mixed spice
- Take 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Take 1 tsp ground cloves
- Make ready 1 tsp cocoa
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1/2 cup raisins
- Take 1/2 cup sultanas
- Get 1/2 cup currants
- Prepare 75 grams glace mixed peel
- Get 3 cup flour (warmed)
- Make ready Pastry Crosses
- Get 1 cup flour
- Make ready 70 grams butter (chilled)
- Take 1/4 cup water (chilled)
- Prepare Glaze
- Prepare 3 tbsp caster sugar
- Prepare 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. Enriched with dairy that wasn't permitted in the Lenten diet, filled with fruit and spices, and marked with the sign of the cross, they're so pleasurable to eat that Queen Elizabeth I felt the need for a rule that the buns could only be sold on two days. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk. The first definite record of hot cross buns comes from a London street cry: "Good Friday comes this month, the old woman runs.
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.
Leave to cool until it reaches hand temperature. One a penny, two a penny. Hot cross buns.🎶 Just in time for Good Friday. 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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