Recipe: Delicious 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 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Hot cross buns

1. You need 4 cups of wheat flour.
2. You need 6 tbs of sugar.
3. It's 2 1/4 tsp of instant yeast.
4. Prepare 1 of large egg.
5. Prepare 1/4 cup of butter or margarine.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
7. It's 1 tsp of cinnamon.
8. Prepare 300 ml of water.
9. It's of Orange peel.
10. Prepare of Raisins.
11. You need of Orange marmalade for glazing.
12. It's 4 tbs of wheat flour added into 2 tbsp water to make a thick paste.

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Hot cross buns step by step

1. Pre- heat oven 375 degrees. Warm the water...
2. Meanwhile mix 2 tbsp sugar and yeast.
3. Add warm water to yeast- sugar mixture..stir n let settle for 5 mins. Cover..
4. Meanwhile..mix the other dry ingredients...flour, 4 tbs sugar,salt, cinnamon,orange peel..
5. Add the butter and use fingertips to mix flour mixture to the butter..
6. Into the yeast mixture which should now have risen,add the egg and mix well..
7. Add yeast mixture into wheat flour and mix well. Knead the dough until no longer sticky..
8. Cover and leave for 1 hour in a warm place.
9. After 1 hour, knead again and cut into small portions and shape into balls..
10. Cover and let rise again for 45 mins..
11. After 45 mins uncover and draw crosses using the wheat flour paste..
12. Bake for 20-25 mins. 375 degrees the first ten mins...then 350 degrees remaining 15 mins..

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.