This hot cross buns recipe is made with a dough that’s lightly sweetened and soft as a cloud. Filled with raisins and blackcurrants it’s sure to impress your taste buds and family! These Hot Cross Buns use a well-enriched...
This hot cross buns recipe is made with a dough that’s lightly sweetened and soft as a cloud. Filled with raisins and blackcurrants it’s sure to impress your taste buds and family!
These Hot Cross Buns use a well-enriched dough with milk & butter, then filled with all of our favourite raisins and currants. Traditional Hot Cross buns use raisins and/or currants, but you can make your own combination of dried blueberries, craisins, and white chocolate. Yes, it’s not a common combination, but goes well.
If this choice of fruits and chocolate is not to your liking, then keep it simple like me and just add currants and raisins. These buns will have your mouth watering as you smell them baking in the oven. With spices like cinnamon, just the aroma of these buns baking will have you waiting for it to come out of the oven. Studded with currants and raisins, these buns are best warm out of the oven served simply with butter and jam, and yes of course with the cross on the top. And doesn’t remember the old Easter nursery rhyme Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns! If you have no daughters, Give them to your sons. One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns!
The best part of this recipe is, you do not need to activate the yeast separately, just combine all the ingredients in a bowl and knead. You can use the stand mixer if you want but I used my hands to knead it, some workout for my arms!
I made a small batch. You can simply double or triple the recipe if you won’t make a big batch of hot cross buns.
Coming to the ingredients of the Hot cross buns recipe, I kept it very simple and yet traditional, to make my life easy.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of raisins and currants 1/2 cup hot water1/3 cup of butter1/4 cup milk2 tsp cardamom essence (vanilla also works great)1+ 1/2 cups of flour/maida1/4 cups of sugar1/4 tsp salt1 tsp cinnamon powder1 + 1/4 tsp instant yeast1 tsp oil2-3 tbsp of milk2 tsp flour/maida2 tsp water2 tsp powdered sugarFew drops of water2 tsp butter2 tsp jam of your choiceInstructions:
Add raisins and currants to a bowl and add hot to boiling water to it. This just to make the raisins and currants soft. Keep it aside for now and move on to the next stepIn a separate bowl, add butter, milk and cardamom essence and microwave for 30 secondsAdd flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon powder and yeast to the butter mixtureKnead the dough till it bounces back when you poke itLastly, drain the soaked raisins and currants and add to the kneaded doughDrizzle oil and coat the Dough well with it and allow it to rest for an hour to proofAfter an hour knead the dough and make 4 portions and round it well, pinching all the corners inside and put in a greased panApply milk and rest for another half an hourMeanwhile, make the paste of flour and waterNow apply some more milk and make the cross using the flour paste on the busBake at preheated 190 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes or till they turn brownOnce baked apply butter and jam while it is still hotAllow it to rest for some time and apply the icing to give the final look of the hot cross bunIf you’ve tried this traditional Hot Cross Buns recipe then don’t forget to leave a comment.
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