Recipe: Tasty Hot Cross Buns

Hot Cross Buns. 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; India; New Zealand. Hot Cross Buns are a traditional Good Friday treat! These slightly sweet yeast-leavened buns are spiced with cinnamon and speckled with currants, citron, and orange zest.

Reviews for: Photos of Hot Cross Buns I. What Do Hot Cross Buns Taste Like? My hot cross buns are a cross (get it?) between a dinner roll and cinnamon roll. You can cook Hot Cross Buns using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Hot Cross Buns

1. Prepare 1/2 cup of raisins.
2. You need 3 cup of all-purpose flour.
3. You need 1/4 cup of brown sugar.
4. It's 1/4 cup of white sugar.
5. Prepare 1 of egg yolk.
6. It's 1/2 cup of milk of choice.
7. You need 1/2 cup of water.
8. Prepare 4 1/4 tsp of active dry yeast.
9. Prepare 3 tbsp of unsalted butter.
10. It's 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla.
11. Prepare 3/4 tsp of salt.
12. You need 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
13. Prepare 1/2 tsp of nutmeg.
14. You need 1/4 tsp of ginger.
15. It's 1 of egg for eggwash.

Easy Hot Cross Buns using this easy dough from my Bagel Recipe. No yeast, no boiling, no fancy Keywords: Air fryer dessert recipes, Easy Hot Cross Buns, Healthy Hot Cross Buns, Hot Cross. But hot cross buns can be a treat to make and eat any time of year, and they're perfect for breakfast. Brush tops of buns with egg wash.

Hot Cross Buns step by step

1. Combine the water and milk in a mediumsaucepan and warm over low heat until about 100°F (but no more than 110 degrees). Remove from heat and sprinkle the yeast and a pinch of sugar and flour over the surface of the liquid. Set aside without stirring, until foamy and rising up the sides of the pan, about 30 minutes..
2. Whisk the butter, egg yolk and vanilla into the yeast mixture..
3. Whisk the flour, the remaining sugar, salt,nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger in a large bowl. Make a well in the center of the flour and stir in the yeast mixture with a wooden spoon to make a thick, shaggy, and slightly sticky dough. Stir in currants. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured work surface and knead until soft and elastic, about 8 minutes. Shape into a ball..
4. Brush the inside of a large bowl with butter. Put dough in bowl, turning to coat lightly with butter. Cover with plastic wrap. Let rise at room temperature until doubled in size, about 1 hour 30 minutes. (If you have a marker, trace a circle the size of the dough on the plastic, and note the time to help you keep track.).
5. To form the rolls: Butter a 9 by 14-inch baking pan. Turn the dough out of the bowl and pat into a rectangle about 16 by 8 inches. Divide the dough into 12 equal portions, about 2 ounces each, with a pizzawheel or bench scraper. (If you don't have a scale, divide the dough in half lengthwise, then in half crosswise. Cut each of those four sections into 3 equal-sized rolls.).
6. Tuck the edges of the dough under to make round rolls and place them seam-side down in the prepared pan, leaving a little space in between each roll. Cover the pan with buttered plastic wrap and set aside in a warm place until the rolls rise almost to the rim of the pan and have more than doubled in size, about 45 minutes..
7. Meanwhile, position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 375°F.Remove the plastic wrap and brush the tops of the buns with beaten egg. Bake rolls until golden brown and puffy, and an instant read thermometer inserted into the center of the rolls registers 190°F, about 25 minutes..
8. To make glaze: I whisked toegther some cream cheese along with powdered sugar and a few tbsp of milk (more or less depending on your desired consistency).
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Mary's going to be so proud that you made your own hot cross buns this Easter. Lucky thing her recipe is completely foolproof. On Easter morning, our family always looked forward to a breakfast of dyed hard boiled eggs and Mom's hot cross buns. You mark the crosses before baking. One a penny, two a penny.