Steps to Make Award-winning Hot Cross Buns

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Hot Cross Buns is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Hot Cross Buns is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook hot cross buns using 22 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:

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