Recipe: Tasty Hot cross buns

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Recipe: Tasty Hot cross buns Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Hot cross buns. 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.

In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk.

Line a baking sheet with parchment.

Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface.

You can cook Hot cross buns using 24 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Hot cross buns

It’s of For the ferment:.
You need of sugar.
You need of fresh or 1 ½ tsp fast action yeast.
Prepare of warm milk.
Prepare of wholemeal flour.
It’s of For the dough:.
You need of strong white flour.
It’s of mixed spice.
Prepare of cinnamon.
It’s of butter, softened.
It’s of sugar.
You need of medium egg (50g).
You need of salt.
Prepare of sultanas.
You need of raisins.
You need of white rum (or fruit juice, or water).
Prepare of For the crossing mix:.
It’s of plain flour.
You need of baking powder.
Prepare of vegetable oil.
You need of water.
You need of For the glaze:.
You need of honey.
Prepare of double cream.

Stir and heat until very warm but not boiling.

Turn off the heat and allow to cool until the mixture.

These hot cross buns are best eaten fresh and out of the oven.

Hot cross buns step by step

Prepare the raisins well in advance, best to leave them to soak for a few hours or even overnight. Put the raisins and sultanas in a ziplock bag, warm the rum or juice (on the hob or in a microwave) until almost boiling and pour over the fruit. Squash it around in the bag so that the fruit is well covered in the liquid, zip up the bag and leave for the moisture to be absorbed..
Prepare the ferment by dissolving the yeast in the warm milk and mixing it well with the flour and sugar. Leave to rise and bubble up for about an hour..
Add the dough ingredients to the ferment and knead or mix in a standing mixer with the dough hook attachment until the dough is smooth, elastic and bounces of the sides of the bowl or stops sticking to your hands. Let it rest for 10 minutes..
Drain the fruit – there will be next to none liquid left - and then knead it in very gently, taking care not to break up the raisins. If using the standing mixer, mix the fruit in on the lowest speed and finish off by kneading it in with your hands. The huge amount of fruit makes for delicious buns but it’s difficult to distribute it evenly – so invariably you’ll end up with some buns more fruited than others..
Leave the dough to prove in a warm place until doubled in size – at least an hour..
Turn it out onto lightly floured surface, trying not to de-gas it too much..
Divide the dough into 16 even pieces (they will weigh about 75g each if you want to be that precise), mold the pieces into tight balls and place on baking trays lined with parchment, spaced about 5cm apart..
Place the trays in large plastic bags, inflate each by blowing into it and quickly tying the ends and leave to rise for about an hour, until the buns are almost touching each other..
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4..
Make the crossing mix – beat all the ingredients together in a bowl with a spoon. Transfer it into a piping bag (if you haven’t got one, spoon the mix into a plastic bag and cut off a corner) and pipe crosses on the buns, using your finger to stop the flow of the mix after each line..
Immediately put the trays in the oven and bake for 15-18 minutes until well browned – except for the crosses..
Transfer to a wire rack on the parchment – it will make glazing them easier if they are still slightly stuck to the parchment and not dancing around while you brush the glaze on..
Heat up the honey until almost starting to boil and stir in the double cream. Brush the glaze on the buns – still warm or slightly cooled down, it doesn’t matter – and leave to cool completely or be snatched to tuck into while still warm..

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 is special for a different reason (although we hope to also have some of the aforementioned positive qualities, as well!).

We recognize that each rabbit has a unique temperament.just like a person.

Hot Cross Buns were originally a Saxon tradition which became an Easter tradition to celebrate Good Friday.