Simple Way to Make Perfect Easter Hot Cross Buns

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easter hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

A hot cross bun is a spiced sweet bun usually made with fruit, marked with a cross on the top, and traditionally eaten on Good Friday in the United Kingdom; Ireland; Australia; India; New Zealand. Hot Cross Buns are a traditional Good Friday treat! These slightly sweet yeast-leavened buns are spiced with cinnamon and speckled with currants They're an Easter tradition, a soft, slightly sweet, spiced yeast roll speckled with currants and often candied citron. The buns are marked with a cross.

Easter Hot Cross Buns is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Easter Hot Cross Buns is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook easter hot cross buns using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easter Hot Cross Buns:

1. Make ready 2 cup all purpose flour
2. Take 1/4 cup milk
3. Get 1/4 cup lukewarm water
4. Take 2 tbsp butter
5. Take 11/4 tsp instant yeast
6. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
7. Prepare 1 tsp cinnamon powder
8. Take 1/4 tsp clove powder
9. Take 1/4 cup sugar
10. Prepare 1/4 cup raisins
11. Prepare For cross
12. Take 2 tbsp flour
13. Take 3 tbsp water

Hot cross buns are a traditional Easter food, typically eaten on Good Friday, but are now widely enjoyed year-long. My hot cross buns are a cross (get it?) between a dinner roll and cinnamon roll. They're soft, yet a little dense with a deliciously spiced flavor from cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Mary's going to be so proud that you made your own hot cross buns this Easter.

Instructions to make Easter Hot Cross Buns:

1. In a pan add milk and butter. When slightly warm keep aside.
2. Sift flour in a bowl. Add salt, sugar, yeast, spice powders, lukewarm milk and water and knead to a smooth dough.
3. Cover and allow it to rise for 1 hours.
4. Transfer dough to a dusted working surface and add raisins. Knead for 4-5 minutes
5. Divide the dough into equal balls and place it on a greased baking tray.
6. Cover and let it proof for 35min.
7. Make a paste of 2tbsp flour and 3 tbsp of water. Fill this in a piping bag or a zip lock bag.
8. Make cross over each bun using the paste.
9. Bake in a preheated oven at 180'c for 20-25mins.

They're soft, yet a little dense with a deliciously spiced flavor from cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Mary's going to be so proud that you made your own hot cross buns this Easter. Lucky thing her recipe is completely foolproof. 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.

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