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The Ultimate Hot Cross Bun Recipe

The year is flying by all ready and Easter is already upon us. So to help you get organised, we have decide to share with you the ultimate Hot Cross Bun recipe. Enjoy...

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-03-29 10:35
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Hot Cross Buns Recipe

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Hot Cross Buns Recipe

Hot Cross Buns

This is the best Hot Cross Buns recipe. They are fragrant and moist and can only be made more delicious by adding some farm fresh butter.
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Prep Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: British
Keyword: Easter
Servings: 30
Author: Joe Mellor

Ingredients

Buns

  • 700 g unbleached white bread flour
  • 115 g sugar
  • 5 g salt (1 teaspoon)
  • 15 g ground mixed spice (3 teaspoons)
  • 113 g butter (room temperature)
  • 70 g fresh yeast
  • 440 g dried fruit such as sultanas, currants, mixed peel
  • 1 large egg
  • 300 ml lukewarm water

Cross Mixture

  • 65 g flour
  • 20 g sugar
  • 60 ml water
  • 1 Glaze: large egg and a little water

Instructions

  • Before you do anything else, weigh your dried fruit and soak in water for 30 minutes, then drain water.
  • Weigh and prepare all your other ingredients.
  • Use some of your lukewarm water to dissolve yeast in a small bowl
  • In a large bowl, mix your flour, sugar and salt and mixed spice together and make a well in the centre. Place your butter in little pieces on top of the flour around the sides Pour your dissolved yeast in to the well.
  • Add your egg into the well and stir into the yeast.
  • With a spatula carefully stir a bit of your flour mixture from the sides into the well, slowly adding water and more flour and butter bit by bit until it is all combined.
  • Empty your bowl contents onto your work surface and add your dried fruit.
  • Now knead your dough by hand for 8-10minutes until the fruit is properly worked into the dough and your dough feels elastic and wooly.
  • Place the dough back in your bowl and cover with a damp tea towel and leave to rest for 30 minutes in a warm place.
  • After your dough has rested, take it out of the bowl, knock it back and knead for another 2 minutes or so.
  • Divide your dough into 30 equal pieces and form rolls. Place these on your greased baking trays so they almost touch but not quite. Cover with a damp tea towel again and leave in a warm place to rise. Preheat your oven now to 200C

Meanwhile make your cross mixture:

  • Mix your flour and sugar into the water and combine until you have a smooth paste. Place this mixture into a piping bag fitted with a plain tube.
  • Make your glaze by stirring a little water into the egg and mix well together.
  • Once the buns have doubled in size (45 min – 1hour depending on room temperature)
  • Brush on your egg glaze and pipe a cross shape with the cross mixture onto each bun.
  • Put your trays in the oven and reduce the oven temperature to 180C. Bake buns for 20 minutes until they are golden brown. Once finished, place buns on a wire rack to cool.
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