I've been quite obsessed with making bread recently, so it seemed only right to give some Hot Cross Buns a try for Easter. This was my second attempt at them, and I had to do a fair bit of fiddling with the recipe to get it to work properly.
Ingredients
- 300ml whole milk
- zest orange
- 50g butter cubed
- 500g strong white flour plus 140g for the crosses (I found that the dough was far too wet and ended up added almost an additional 100g)
- 1 tspn cinnamon
- 85g golden caster sugar
- 7g dried yeast
- 1 large egg plus an egg to glaze
- oil for greasing
- 100g mixed fruit (I doubled this to 200g the recipe can easily take it)
-warm the milk and zest together until steaming and then remove from heat. Stir in the butter and leave to cool until hand temp.
- mix the flour, cinnamon (I threw in some nutmeg as well) sugar and yeast together in a bowl with a pinch of salt and then add the milk mixture.
- once these are combined add the egg and knead until smooth and elastic, then return to an oiled bowl and cover
- leave to prove until it doubles in size
- remove from the bowl and knock back, add the dried fruit and knead until it is totally combined.
-split into 12 individual buns and space evenly on a baking tray
- cover and allow to rise again.
- when the buns have doubled in size, make a paste of plain flour and water and put the paste mix in a plastic bag. Snip off a corner and use this to pipe the crosses on the top of the buns.
-glaze the buns with a beaten egg and bake for 15-20 minutes at 180c
No comments:
Post a Comment