Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns

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Hot Cross Buns is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Hot Cross Buns is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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 particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have hot cross buns using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:
  1. Take Buns
  2. Prepare 1 cup milk
  3. Take 1/2 cup boiling water
  4. Make ready 2 tbsp sugar
  5. Get 2 tbsp active dry yeast
  6. Prepare 2 cup flour
  7. Make ready 100 grams butter
  8. Prepare 1/2 cup brown sugar
  9. Get 1 eggs
  10. Get 1 tsp salt
  11. Make ready 3 tbsp mixed spice
  12. Take 2 tsp ground nutmeg
  13. Get 1 tsp ground cloves
  14. Prepare 1 tsp cocoa
  15. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
  16. Get 1/2 cup raisins
  17. Take 1/2 cup sultanas
  18. Get 1/2 cup currants
  19. Get 75 grams glace mixed peel
  20. Take 3 cup flour (warmed)
  21. Get Pastry Crosses
  22. Take 1 cup flour
  23. Make ready 70 grams butter (chilled)
  24. Make ready 1/4 cup water (chilled)
  25. Make ready Glaze
  26. Make ready 3 tbsp caster sugar
  27. Get 6 tbsp milk

Or, you can make the dough through the first rise, refrigerate the dough overnight, and then shape and bake the buns the next day. 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. Hot Cross Buns were originally a Saxon tradition which became an Easter tradition to celebrate Good Friday. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm milk.

Instructions to make Hot Cross Buns:
  1. Set oven to 220°c. Place flour in oven to heat while working through the recipe.
  2. Mix boiling water, milk, sugar in a large bowl. Sprinkle over the the yeast. Leave to stand until bubbles appear.
  3. Add 2 cups of flour to the yeast mixture and mix well.
  4. Cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl. Add egg, salt spices and vanilla. Mix well.
  5. Combine the spice/butter mixture with the yeast mixture. Add fruit and mix with well.
  6. 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.
  7. Knock dough down. Cut into 20 pieces and form into buns. Cover with cling film. Leave to double in size.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Cook buns at 220°c for 10-12 minutes.
  11. While the buns cook make the glaze. Mix sugar and milk in a pot and boil for 2 minutes.
  12. When buns are cooked generously brush glaze over buns while still hot. Place on a cooling rack.

The first definite record of hot cross buns comes from a London street cry: "Good Friday comes this month, the old woman runs. Leave to cool until it reaches hand temperature. Hot Cross Buns cannot be dashed off quickly but watching the dough rise is all very satisfying, and then your family can enjoy all that fruity, spicy stickiness. You can now watch how to make Hot Cross Buns in our Cookery School video below. When the buns have risen, remove the polythene bag and the greaseproof paper.

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