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Hot Cross Buns
Recipe by:
LITSTER5
An Easter tradition. The egg yolk wash gives these a golden, glossy finish. The icing is simply made from sugar and milk.
Ready in 40 mins
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Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 175ml (6 fl oz) warm water (45 C)
- 50g (2 oz) butter
- 1 tablespoon dried milk powder
- 50g (2 oz) caster sugar
- 3/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1 egg white
- 375g (13 oz) plain flour
- 1 tablespoon dried active baking yeast
- 100g (4 oz) dried currants
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tablespoons water
- For the icing:
- 50g (2 oz) icing sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 dessertspoon semi skimmed milk
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Preparation method
Prep: 20 mins | Cook: 20 mins1.
Put warm water, butter, milk powder, caster sugar, salt, egg, egg white, flour and yeast in bread machine and start on dough program.
2.
When 5 minutes of kneading are left, add currants and cinnamon. Leave in machine till doubled.
3.
Punch down on floured surface, cover and let rest 10 minutes.
4.
Shape into 12 balls and place in a greased 22x33cm (9x12 in) tin. Cover and let rise in a warm place till doubled, about 35-40 minutes.
5.
Mix egg yolk and 2 tablespoons water. Brush on dough balls.
6.
Bake at 190 C / Gas mark 5 for 20 minutes. Remove from pan immediately and cool on wire rack.
7.
To make crosses: Mix together icing sugar, vanilla and milk. Brush a cross on each cooled bun.
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Last updated:
14 Mar 2013
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Easy
Needs some mixed peel
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24 Jan 2013
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very good. I added an extra 50g mixed dried fruit and 3/4 tsp ground mixed spice and 3/4 tsp cinnamon.
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29 Apr 2012
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The dough was absolutely perfect! And tasted great (baked).
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16 Apr 2012
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found the dough to wet and not enough spice.
Will be amending to 1ib of flour like other recipes have, also 1tsp of allspice to have the cloves taste.
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10 Feb 2012
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Easy
my boyfriend loved them
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26 Mar 2011
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Lovely recipe used lots of times freezes really well!
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26 Mar 2011
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Altered ingredient amounts.
Added extra water to make softer dough and used water and sugar boiled as a glaze instead of cross makes lovely sticky buns
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26 Mar 2011
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Easy
delicious
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31 Mar 2010
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Something else.
To make the crosses, I made a sweet dough out of an egg white, some icing sugar, plain flour and some vanilla and put it on after brusing the tops with the egg yolk mixture - turned out great! Everyone asked for the recipe!
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14 Jul 2008
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POOKIES
Used different ingredients.
Since I was short on time, I decided to try this bread machine version over my 'traditional' recipe....and these buns were delicious! They even tasted just like my regular recipe! I did make some changes as my standby recipe was a bit different and you may want to try this too: I added 1 tsp. vanilla extract, 1/2 tsp. allspice, 1 tsp. each dried lemon and orange peel and 10 tbsp. mixed candied fruit. So good with a cuppa
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