Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, hot cross buns. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Hot Cross Buns is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Hot Cross Buns is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
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 must prepare a few components. You can cook hot cross buns using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Prepare Dough:
- Get 250 g (2 cups) strong flour/white bread flour
- Prepare 250 g (2 cups) plain flour/all-purpose flour
- Prepare 1 tsp mixed spice
- Make ready 125 ml (1 cup) lukewarm milk
- Make ready 125 ml (1 cup) lukewarm water
- Make ready 7 g (2 1/4 tsp) active dry yeast
- Prepare 10 g salt
- Get 50 g sugar (3 heaping Tbsp)
- Take 1 egg, beaten
- Get 50 g unsalted butter (3 1/2 Tbsp)
- Take 100 g dried mixed fruit or raisins (a small bowlful)
- Make ready Crosses on top:
- Make ready some plain flour
- Get water
- Get Glaze:
- Prepare 2 Tbsp marmalade or apricot jam
- Get 2 Tbsp water
These buns are sweet and sticky and topped with the best cream cheese icing there is! These hot cross buns are best eaten fresh and out of the oven. 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.
Instructions 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!
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. 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. The first definite record of hot cross buns comes from a London street cry: "Good Friday comes this month, the old woman runs. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk. Hot Cross Buns were originally a Saxon tradition which became an Easter tradition to celebrate Good Friday.
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