Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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. Easy Hot Cross Buns This soft dough is easily shaped, and makes tender, aromatic buns, ready for an icing cross on top.
Hot Cross Buns is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Hot Cross Buns is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook hot cross buns using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Make ready Buns
- Take 1 cup milk
- Take 1/2 cup boiling water
- Make ready 2 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp active dry yeast
- Make ready 2 cup flour
- Make ready 100 grams butter
- Prepare 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Take 1 eggs
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 3 tbsp mixed spice
- Prepare 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cloves
- Take 1 tsp cocoa
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
- Get 1/2 cup sultanas
- Prepare 1/2 cup currants
- Make ready 75 grams glace mixed peel
- Get 3 cup flour (warmed)
- Take Pastry Crosses
- Get 1 cup flour
- Prepare 70 grams butter (chilled)
- Get 1/4 cup water (chilled)
- Prepare Glaze
- Get 3 tbsp caster sugar
- Make ready 6 tbsp milk
Hot cross buns are a rather old English tradition, dating back to the Saxons who marked buns with a cross in honor of the goddess Eostre, the goddess of light, whose day of celebration eventually became Easter. To me, Hot Cross Buns are as synonymous with Good Friday as scrambling around town to buy Easter Egg dye and synthetic blue grass. There's so much legend and lore behind Hot Cross Buns, which date back to the old country. English folklore said that Hot Cross Buns baked on Good Friday would never spoil throughout the following year.
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.
There's so much legend and lore behind Hot Cross Buns, which date back to the old country. English folklore said that Hot Cross Buns baked on Good Friday would never spoil throughout the following year. The first definite record of hot cross buns comes from a London street cry: "Good Friday comes this month, the old woman runs. Hot cross buns are a traditional, slightly sweet, spiced Easter treat eaten during Lent and on Good Friday. They're yeasted sweet buns filled with spices and various fruits such as currants, raisins, and/or candied citrus.
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