Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Hot Cross Buns is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Hot Cross Buns is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook hot cross buns using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
- Take Buns
- Get 1 cup milk
- Make ready 1/2 cup boiling water
- Make ready 2 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp active dry yeast
- Get 2 cup flour
- Make ready 100 grams butter
- Make ready 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Get 1 eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 3 tbsp mixed spice
- Take 2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Take 1 tsp ground cloves
- Take 1 tsp cocoa
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1/2 cup raisins
- Make ready 1/2 cup sultanas
- Make ready 1/2 cup currants
- Prepare 75 grams glace mixed peel
- Prepare 3 cup flour (warmed)
- Make ready Pastry Crosses
- Get 1 cup flour
- Prepare 70 grams butter (chilled)
- Make ready 1/4 cup water (chilled)
- Make ready Glaze
- Prepare 3 tbsp caster sugar
- Prepare 6 tbsp milk
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.
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