Hot Cross Buns
Discover how to make hot cross buns with this tasty yeast dough. Brown sugar, raisins, currants or butter and vanilla give each bun a unique flavor.
Ingredients
- 310 g Milk (can use almond/coconut)
- 60 g Brown sugar
- 4 tspn (2 sachets) Dried Yeast
- 400 g Plain flour
- 200 g Bakers Flour
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1.5 tspn cinnamon
- 1 Tspn Allspice
- 1/2 tspn ground nutmeg
- 60 g Butter
- 1 1/2 cups mixed dried fruit
- 2 Eggs
Instructions
- Insert Dough Blade. Add milk, sugar, yeast. Press DOUGH 1, Start.
- Add flour, salt, spices, butter, fruit and eggs. Step 2 - change Speed to 5. Start.
- Scrape down dough from sides of bowl. Dough will be quite sticky. Dough Blade can be removed. Push dough together into a blob. Close and lock lid. Step 3 - Start. This is 30min of proving - it will double in size!
- Remove the dough from the bowl and place on a floured surface. Divide up the dough into 24 even shaped buns. Place on a floured tray and place in a warm spot covered with a tea towel for 30min to prove again. Buns will double in size.
- Preheat oven to 200C. Whisk together 50g flour and 50ml water. Using a piping bag (or plastic bag with the corner snipped off), pipe crosses over each bun. Bake in oven for 10min. Reduce temp to 180C and bake for a further 15min.
- Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack. Enjoy!
Notes
You could also add a handful of choc bits.
