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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. What Do Hot Cross Buns Taste Like?
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook hot cross buns using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Get Dough:
- Make ready 250 g (2 cups) strong flour/white bread flour
- Make ready 250 g (2 cups) plain flour/all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1 tsp mixed spice
- Take 125 ml (1 cup) lukewarm milk
- Take 125 ml (1 cup) lukewarm water
- Prepare 7 g (2 1/4 tsp) active dry yeast
- Prepare 10 g salt
- Prepare 50 g sugar (3 heaping Tbsp)
- Prepare 1 egg, beaten
- Prepare 50 g unsalted butter (3 1/2 Tbsp)
- Get 100 g dried mixed fruit or raisins (a small bowlful)
- Get Crosses on top:
- Take some plain flour
- Prepare water
- Prepare Glaze:
- Get 2 Tbsp marmalade or apricot jam
- Get 2 Tbsp water
It that time of year again where my oven is getting a workout. But hot cross buns can be a treat to make and eat any time of year, and they're perfect for breakfast. Brush tops of buns with egg wash. Hot Cross Buns are a seasonal yeast bread traditionally served on Good Friday.
Steps to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Mix all the dough ingredients in a large bowl until it forms a ball of dough you can knead. Remove to a board sprinkled with flour and knead for about 10 minutes until the dough is smooth, soft and elastic.
- Form the dough into a ball and put back into the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise until about doubled in size (usually 1 hour but if it's chilly it could take 2 hours).
- Once the dough is about double in size, bring it back to the floured board and knead it briefly to push out the air. Divide it into 8 equal pieces.
- With each piece of dough, form round buns. Place the 8 buns on a floured or lined baking tray (leave a little space in between) and cover lightly with a tea towel. Let rise for about another 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 200°C (400°F).
- To make the crosses, mix together a small amount of flour with a little water until it forms a thick paste. Use the paste to make crosses across the top of each bun.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes until the hot cross buns are golden. While the buns are baking, mix together the marmalade/apricot jam and water, then brush it over the buns when they come out of the oven (still hot!).
- Let the hot cross buns cool on a wire rack, and enjoy for Easter!
These enriched buns are spiced with ground cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice, and are studded with raisins (or currants) and. 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. One a penny, two a penny. Hot cross buns.🎶 Just in time for Good Friday and Easter Sunday, here's one of our favorite traditional nursery rhymes about food, made super simple.
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