Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, hot cross buns. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Hot Cross Buns is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Hot Cross Buns is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have hot cross buns using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Take Buns
- Take 1 cup milk
- Get 1/2 cup boiling water
- Prepare 2 tbsp sugar
- Take 2 tbsp active dry yeast
- Make ready 2 cup flour
- Take 100 grams butter
- Make ready 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Take 1 eggs
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 3 tbsp mixed spice
- Take 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Make ready 1 tsp ground cloves
- Get 1 tsp cocoa
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1/2 cup raisins
- Get 1/2 cup sultanas
- Take 1/2 cup currants
- Make ready 75 grams glace mixed peel
- Make ready 3 cup flour (warmed)
- Prepare Pastry Crosses
- Prepare 1 cup flour
- Take 70 grams butter (chilled)
- Make ready 1/4 cup water (chilled)
- Prepare Glaze
- Make ready 3 tbsp caster sugar
- Make ready 6 tbsp milk
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. That said, you can form the buns the day before and let them rise in the refrigerator overnight, then bake the next day.
Instructions 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.
Or, you can make the dough through the first rise, refrigerate the dough overnight, and then shape and bake the buns the next day. 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 medium bowl, combine milk, yeast, and a pinch of sugar. Whisk butter, egg yolk and vanilla into the yeast mixture. Hot cross buns are soft, sweet bread rolls typically made with yeast.
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