Hot Cross Buns EasterBake
Hot Cross Buns EasterBake

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Hot cross buns are a traditional Easter dish. Featuring a spiced dough, cross shape, and orange icing, these are truly one of our Orange icing is the best finishing touch to this classic Easter recipe! Hopping right into Easter week with a big ol' pan of hot cross buns! #stayathome Hello folks!

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have hot cross buns easterbake using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns EasterBake:
  1. Make ready 450 g (1 lb) strong white flour
  2. Get 15 g (1/2 oz) dried yeast or 2 x 7g sachets fast acting yeast
  3. Prepare 75 g (3 oz) butter, chilled and cubed
  4. Make ready 100 g (31/2) oz caster sugar
  5. Take 225 ml (8 fl oz) warm milk
  6. Get 2 eggs, beaten
  7. Take 150 g (6 oz) mixed fruit, (sultanas, currants and mixed peel)
  8. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  9. Make ready 2 tsp mixed spice
  10. Prepare 1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
  11. Get 1/2 tsp salt
  12. Take 1 pack ready rolled shortcrust pastry
  13. Get Egg Wash
  14. Get 2 tbsp milk mixed with 1 egg and 1 tsp caster sugar

These Hot Cross Buns are lightly spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg and studded with tangy craisins or raisins. It's so important to us that our family understands Easter is about Jesus Christ's death, burial and resurrection through which he paid the penalty for. While most of us are quarantined at home this year, these Hot Cross Buns make a great traditional easter treat that also doubles as a great make ahead breakfast. #easterbaking #hotcrossbuns #quarantinebaking. When the buns have risen remove the polythene bags and pipe a cross on each bun.

Steps to make Hot Cross Buns EasterBake:
  1. In a bowl, mix 1 tbsp of sugar with 60ml (2fl oz) of the warm milk and sprinkle in the yeast. Leave in a warm place for approximately 5 minutes until frothy before sifting the flour into a large mixing bowl.
  2. Rub in the butter until crumbly before adding the mixed spice, cinnamon, sugar, salt and grated nutmeg. Mix well together.
  3. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and add the eggs, remaining milk and yeast mixture.
  4. Mix well until all ingredients combined.
  5. Knead for a couple of minutes until smooth. Add the mixed fruit and continue until the dough is shiny. You can use a food mixer with dough hook if you like.
  6. Cover the bowl with clingfilm and leave in a warm place until doubled in size. This may take up to 1 1/2 hours. Knock back by kneading the dough for 5 minutes and place on a work surface covered with a clean tea towel and let rest for 5 minutes.
  7. Unroll the shortcrust pastry and cut 5 mm (1/4 in) wide strips with a sharp knife.
  8. Shape the dough into small balls of approximately 40g (1 1/2oz) and place 1cm apart onto a greased baking tray. Brush with the egg wash and mark the top of each bun with a cross using the strips of shortcrust pastry. Gently brush again with the egg wash. Leave to stand for 30-45 minutes until the balls have doubled in size.
  9. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C (425 F), Gas mark 7. Bake for 5 minutes before reducing the heat to 200 degrees C (400 F), Gas mark 6 and bake for a further 10 minutes or until the buns are golden brown. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack before toasting and slathering with a knob of butter. Must be eaten warm with a cup of tea whilst thinking about hot sunny days and contemplating about how good life is…

Melt the golden syrup in a pan and while the buns are still warm. Hot Cross Buns served in a Tin Easter Egg! It is to be noted that prior to our Hot Cross Buns being an edible symbol of Christianity, there were similar small cakes made for the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, and as part of the pagan celebration of spring. These Hot Cross Buns are way better than the stock standard ones you buy from grocery stores. Hot cross buns get a lot of their flavor from enriched dough that also has golden raisins, mixed peel, orange zest, apple, and Did You Know?

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