Easiest Way to Prepare Perfect Hot Cross Buns

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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. Remove from heat and sprinkle the yeast and a pinch of. Easy Hot Cross Buns This soft dough is easily shaped, and makes tender, aromatic buns, ready for an icing cross on top.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have hot cross buns using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:

1. Prepare Buns
2. Prepare 1 cup milk
3. Make ready 1/2 cup boiling water
4. Get 2 tbsp sugar
5. Prepare 2 tbsp active dry yeast
6. Get 2 cup flour
7. Take 100 grams butter
8. Get 1/2 cup brown sugar
9. Prepare 1 eggs
10. Make ready 1 tsp salt
11. Prepare 3 tbsp mixed spice
12. Prepare 2 tsp ground nutmeg
13. Take 1 tsp ground cloves
14. Get 1 tsp cocoa
15. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
16. Prepare 1/2 cup raisins
17. Take 1/2 cup sultanas
18. Take 1/2 cup currants
19. Make ready 75 grams glace mixed peel
20. Make ready 3 cup flour (warmed)
21. Get Pastry Crosses
22. Prepare 1 cup flour
23. Get 70 grams butter (chilled)
24. Get 1/4 cup water (chilled)
25. Prepare Glaze
26. Get 3 tbsp caster sugar
27. Take 6 tbsp milk

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Instructions to make Hot Cross Buns:

1. Set oven to 220°c. Place flour in oven to heat while working through the recipe.
2. Mix boiling water, milk, sugar in a large bowl. Sprinkle over the the yeast. Leave to stand until bubbles appear.
3. Add 2 cups of flour to the yeast mixture and mix well.
4. Cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl. Add egg, salt spices and vanilla. Mix well.
5. Combine the spice/butter mixture with the yeast mixture. Add fruit and mix with well.
6. Add most of the warmed flour to create a firm dough. Tip out onto a flowered bench and knead for 10 minutes. Cover with cling film and leave to rise until doubled in size.
7. Knock dough down. Cut into 20 pieces and form into buns. Cover with cling film. Leave to double in size.
8. While the buns rise make the pastry for the crosses. Add flour to a food processor. Cut butter into 9 cubes. Add to flour. Pulse to mix butter into the flour. While pulsing, add water in a stream until a bread crumb consistency is reached. Check that squeezing crumbs together will form a ball. Tip onto a floured bench and form into a ball. Refrigerate until the buns have risen.
9. Roll pastry to around 3mm thin. Cut strips of pastry 1cm in width and long enough to cross the top of a bun. Brush milk onto pastry and place crosses on each bun.
10. Cook buns at 220°c for 10-12 minutes.
11. While the buns cook make the glaze. Mix sugar and milk in a pot and boil for 2 minutes.
12. When buns are cooked generously brush glaze over buns while still hot. Place on a cooling rack.

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