Easiest Way to Make Favorite Hot cross buns

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, hot cross buns. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, 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 recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Hot cross buns is something that I have loved my whole life.

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.

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

The ingredients needed to make Hot cross buns:

1. Prepare 4 cups wheat flour
2. Get 6 tbs sugar
3. Prepare 2 1/4 tsp instant yeast
4. Make ready 1 large egg
5. Prepare 1/4 cup butter or margarine
6. Prepare 1 tsp salt
7. Take 1 tsp cinnamon
8. Make ready 300 ml water
9. Take Orange peel
10. Take Raisins
11. Make ready Orange marmalade for glazing
12. Prepare 4 tbs wheat flour added into 2 tbsp water to make a thick paste

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.

Steps to make Hot cross buns:

1. Pre- heat oven 375 degrees. Warm the water..
2. Meanwhile mix 2 tbsp sugar and yeast
3. Add warm water to yeast- sugar mixture..stir n let settle for 5 mins. Cover.
4. Meanwhile..mix the other dry ingredients…flour, 4 tbs sugar,salt, cinnamon,orange peel.
5. Add the butter and use fingertips to mix flour mixture to the butter.
6. Into the yeast mixture which should now have risen,add the egg and mix well.
7. Add yeast mixture into wheat flour and mix well. Knead the dough until no longer sticky.
8. Cover and leave for 1 hour in a warm place
9. After 1 hour, knead again and cut into small portions and shape into balls.
10. Cover and let rise again for 45 mins.
11. After 45 mins uncover and draw crosses using the wheat flour paste.
12. Bake for 20-25 mins. 375 degrees the first ten mins…then 350 degrees remaining 15 mins.

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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