Recipe of Homemade Hot Cross Buns

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hot cross buns. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Hot Cross Buns is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Hot Cross Buns is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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; New Zealand; South Africa; and some parts of the Americas, including Canada and the United States. The bun marks the end of Lent and different parts of the hot cross bun have a certain meaning, including the cross. To make crosses: mix together confectioners' sugar, vanilla, and milk. Place glaze in a piping bag or a sandwich bag with the corner snipped off; pipe a cross onto each roll.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have hot cross buns using 22 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:

1. Prepare (for buns)
2. Make ready 1 egg beaten
3. Take 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
4. Take 1/2 tsp nutmeg
5. Make ready 1/2 tsp ginger
6. Prepare 1 tsp salt
7. Make ready 4 Tbsp brown sugar
8. Prepare 3 1/2 Tbsp (50 g) unsalted butter, melted
9. Make ready 3/4 cup + 3 Tbsp (225ml) warm milk
10. Get 2 1/2 tsp instant dry yeast
11. Take 3 3/4 cups (450 g) flour
12. Make ready 3/4 cup (120 g) raisins, soaked in hot water
13. Take (for cross dough)
14. Get 1/2 cup (60 g) flour
15. Get 1 tsp sugar
16. Get 5 Tbsp water
17. Prepare (for dorure: optional)
18. Make ready 1 egg beaten
19. Prepare pinch salt
20. Get (for syrup: optional)
21. Take 1 Tbsp sugar
22. Make ready 1 Tbsp hot water

To me, Hot Cross Buns are as synonymous with Good Friday as scrambling around town to buy Easter Egg dye and synthetic blue grass. There's so much legend and lore behind Hot Cross Buns, which date back to the old country. English folklore said that Hot Cross Buns baked on Good Friday would never spoil throughout the following year. In a medium bowl, combine milk, yeast, and a pinch of sugar.

Instructions to make Hot Cross Buns:

1. Place first 9 ingredients (from the egg to instant dry yeast) in a mixing bowl and combine well. Warm milk, about body temperature works well, but not too hot.
2. Add flour into the bowl in several batches and mix the dough just until it comes together.
3. Put the dough into a plastic bag and knead until it becomes smooth and glossy, about 4-5 mins.
4. Drain the water from raisins and add into the bag. Knead until they are spread evenly in the dough.
5. Let the dough rise in a warm place until it comes twice as big, about 1 hour. I used my heating pad under the bag!
6. Devide the dough into 12 even pieces and make balls. Put them on your baking tray and let them rise another 1 hour until they become twice as big again. I covered them with plastic wrap to keep them from drying out.
7. While you are waiting, make the dough for the crosses and dorure. Place flour, sugar and water in a mixing bowl and combine well until it becomes smooth. Put it into a small plastic bag.
8. Place egg and salt in a small bowl, mix well and strain.
9. Preheart your oven to 350°F/175 ℃.
10. When your buns have risen, make the crosses on them. Cut a corner of the small bag, and squeeze the dough on the buns.
11. Brush the dorure on the buns and put them in your oven. Bake for 20 mins.
12. While you are baking the buns, make the syrup. Place sugar and hot water in a small bowl, and microwave 1 min.
13. When the buns are done, brush on the syrup while they are still hot. Let them dry.
14. Serve warm. Enjoy just by themselves, or with butter, preserves, coffee, milk tea, or whatever you like :)

English folklore said that Hot Cross Buns baked on Good Friday would never spoil throughout the following year. In a medium bowl, combine milk, yeast, and a pinch of sugar. Whisk butter, egg yolk and vanilla into the yeast mixture. Hot cross buns are a rather old English tradition, dating back to the Saxons who marked buns with a cross in honor of the goddess Eostre, the goddess of light, whose day of celebration eventually became Easter. Hot Cross Buns are sweet rolls, lightly spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg and studded with tangy craisins or raisins.

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