Simple Way to Prepare Perfect Hot Cross Buns

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Hot Cross Buns is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Hot Cross Buns is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hot cross buns using 22 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:

1. Prepare (for buns)
2. Prepare egg beaten
3. Prepare cinnamon
4. Make ready nutmeg
5. Take ginger
6. Take salt
7. Make ready brown sugar
8. Prepare unsalted butter, melted
9. Get + 3 Tbsp (225ml) warm milk
10. Take instant dry yeast
11. Get flour
12. Get raisins, soaked in hot water
13. Get (for cross dough)
14. Prepare flour
15. Make ready sugar
16. Get water
17. Take (for dorure: optional)
18. Prepare egg beaten
19. Take salt
20. Get (for syrup: optional)
21. Make ready sugar
22. Get hot water

Steps to make Hot Cross Buns:

1. Place first 9 ingredients (from the egg to instant dry yeast) in a mixing bowl and combine well. Warm milk, about body temperature works well, but not too hot.
2. Add flour into the bowl in several batches and mix the dough just until it comes together.
3. Put the dough into a plastic bag and knead until it becomes smooth and glossy, about 4-5 mins.
4. Drain the water from raisins and add into the bag. Knead until they are spread evenly in the dough.
5. Let the dough rise in a warm place until it comes twice as big, about 1 hour. I used my heating pad under the bag!
6. Devide the dough into 12 even pieces and make balls. Put them on your baking tray and let them rise another 1 hour until they become twice as big again. I covered them with plastic wrap to keep them from drying out.
7. While you are waiting, make the dough for the crosses and dorure. Place flour, sugar and water in a mixing bowl and combine well until it becomes smooth. Put it into a small plastic bag.
8. Place egg and salt in a small bowl, mix well and strain.
9. Preheart your oven to 350°F/175 ℃.
10. When your buns have risen, make the crosses on them. Cut a corner of the small bag, and squeeze the dough on the buns.
11. Brush the dorure on the buns and put them in your oven. Bake for 20 mins.
12. While you are baking the buns, make the syrup. Place sugar and hot water in a small bowl, and microwave 1 min.
13. When the buns are done, brush on the syrup while they are still hot. Let them dry.
14. Serve warm. Enjoy just by themselves, or with butter, preserves, coffee, milk tea, or whatever you like :)

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