Hot Cross Buns



Ingredients
250g strong white flour
250g plain white flour
125ml warm milk
125ml warm water
5g dried yeast
10g salt
50g caster sugar
1 egg
50g butter
200g raisins, currants & saltanas mixed
2 tbsp whisky marmalade (see base of post for recipe if you want to make it yourself)
ladle of starer optional (see base post for link)
1 tsp mixed spice
2 tsp cinnamon

Crosses
50g of plane flour
100ml water

Glaze 
 2 tbsp of sugar
1 tbsp of water melted together

These remind me of brioche using eggs and butter in the flour mix and it is very sloppy so use a food unless you want really messy hands.


  • Combine flour, water, milk, yeast, starter,salt and sugar and bring together with a dough hook 
  • Add the egg and butter and mix up to a combined sticky dough
  • Add fruit, marmalade and spice mix till silky and then leave to prove till doubled in size
  • Knock back and divide and shape into buns and prove again until doubled 
  • Mix up the water and flour for the crosses and pipe this across the top of the buns
  • Bake at 200c for 15-20 mins 
  • Mix up the sugar water glaze in the microwave and when the buns come out of the oven give them a brush

 Whisky marmalade.jpg Sour dough starter.jpg


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5 comments:

  1. oh my goodness your hot cross buns look like professional bakery ones. i love the smell of hot cross buns and when they are fresh i eat them straight out of the packet mmmm and then they are lovely toasted with lashings of butter mmmmm!
    can you tell i like hot cross buns??? now I have some in the cupboard..... but they do not look as good as yours x

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  2. Yay! Perfect hot cross buns, thanks for linking up these Easter favourites to #Tastytuesdays

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  3. Mmmm they look lovely Helen, I am loving all the Easter baking at the moment. Bet they are so yummy warm with butter on x #TastyTuesdays #RecipeoftheWeek

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  4. oh these sound yummy. I have never had them being from america but heard they are delicious here. I will have to bookmark this and try them myself. Thanks for sharing. #tastytuesday

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  5. My eldest daughter loves hot cross buns so I think she'll scorn me if I don't give them a go! haha! Thanks for the inspiration. #tastytuesday

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