Hot cross Buns Recipe with step-by-step pictures. This recipe is made using maida, dry yeast and dried fruits. These buns are fluffy soft and delicious.
Hot Cross Buns
This bun was on my mind for quite an extended time. And to be frank i often forget this recipe completely but every time i remember when maha watches the rhymes “HOT CROSS BUNS, HOT CROSS BUNS, ONE A PENNY, TWO A PENNY, HOT CROSS BUNS” . Finally today i made a decision to present this a try whatever happens and here i’m with the post.
Ingredients for Hot Cross Buns
- All Purpose Flour / Maida – 3 cups + more
- Sugar – ½ cup
- Milk – 1 ¼ cup or as needed
- Dry Yeast – 1 tbsp
- Egg – 1
- Cinnamon Powder – 1 tsp
- Unsalted Butter – ½ cup
- Salt – ½ tsp
- Raisins – ¼ cup
- Tutti Fruity – ½ cup
For Egg Wash:
For Icing:
- Royal Icing – 1 batch (RECIPE HERE)
(MY 1 CUP MEASURES 240 ML)
Hope you’ll give this a try to let me know the way it seems for you..
Easy methods to Make Hot Cross Buns
- Take flour, salt and cinnamon in a bowl and blend well. Put aside.
- Melt butter in a pan, add in milk, sugar and whisk well. Touch and see whether the temp of the milk is luke warm. It must be very
warm, whether it is hot then the yeast will die. - Once the combination is warm, sprinkle over the yeast and put aside for five mins. Now it is going to be all activated.
- Now whisk it well and add in egg and whisk well.
- Now add in flour and blend to a sticky dough. Add in raisans and tutti fruity and blend well.
- Cover the dough with a plate and let it rise on a warm spot for 1 hour or till it’s doubled in size.
- Now add more flour and knead well. Now divide it into equal portions. take one ball and roll it right into a smooth ball.
- Arrange this in a parchment lined baking sheet and canopy it again and let it rise for 1 hour or so.
- Within the last 10 min of rising, preheat oven to 190 degree C…
- Make egg wash by mixing egg with some milk and put aside.
- Brush the egg wash over the buns and bake this for 20 to 25 mins till golden.
- Remove it and let it cool for five mins, remove it to a wire rack and funky it completely.
- When the buns are cooling prepare glaze as shown here.
- Fill a piping bag or ziploc bag with icing, snip the tip off and make criss cross pattern over the buns.
- Let it set for an hour and serve.
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Hot Cross Buns Recipe
Hot cross Buns Recipe with step-by-step pictures. This recipe is made using maida, dry yeast and dried fruits. These buns are fluffy soft and delicious.
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Hot Cross Buns Step by Step
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| Take your ingredients for dough |
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| I used tutti fruity and raisans |
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| Take flour in a bowl |
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| add in some salt |
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| add in cinnamon |
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| take butter in a pan, i’m going to make the dough on this so i used an enormous pan |
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| melt it down |
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| add in milk |
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| add in sugar |
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| whisk till sugar is melted |
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| touch the milk to envision the temperature..The milk must be luke warm. Whether it is hot then it is going to kill the yeast..so be sure the milk may be very very warm |
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| Now sprinkle over yeast..that is dry yeast |
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| set this aside for five mins so the yeast is activated |
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| now whisk this well |
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| add in 1 egg |
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| whisk again |
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| now add in flour mix in |
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| the dough must be sticky..The more stickier the dough the more soft the buns will change into |
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| add within the tutti fruity and raisans |
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| cover and let it rise for 1 to 2 hours |
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| now the dough is well risen |
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| sprinkle more flour |
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| knead for five mins or so |
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| now the dough is soft and supple |
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| divide it into equal portions |
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| take a ball |
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| shape it right into a smooth ball |
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| arrange it in a greased baking pan |
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| let this rise again for 1 hour or so |
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| Now make egg wash |
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| add some milk to egg |
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| use a pastry brush |
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| brush over the buns |
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| time to bake |
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| bake till golden |
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| remove it on a cooling rack and funky completely |
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| i made a batch of my eggless royal icing..RECIPE HERE |
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| i filled a piping bag with it and snipped of the tip |
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| make a criss cross pattern |
