Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, easter hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easter Hot Cross Buns is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Easter Hot Cross Buns is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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; South Africa; and some parts of the Americas, including Canada and the United States. Hot cross buns are a traditional Easter food, typically eaten on Good Friday, but are now widely enjoyed year-long. My hot cross buns are a cross (get it?) between a dinner roll and cinnamon roll.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easter hot cross buns using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easter Hot Cross Buns:

1. Take 2 cup all purpose flour
2. Prepare 1/4 cup milk
3. Make ready 1/4 cup lukewarm water
4. Take 2 tbsp butter
5. Take 11/4 tsp instant yeast
6. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
7. Take 1 tsp cinnamon powder
8. Prepare 1/4 tsp clove powder
9. Get 1/4 cup sugar
10. Take 1/4 cup raisins
11. Make ready For cross
12. Get 2 tbsp flour
13. Prepare 3 tbsp water

Hot Cross Buns are a traditional Good Friday treat! These slightly sweet yeast-leavened buns are spiced with cinnamon and speckled with currants They're an Easter tradition, a soft, slightly sweet, spiced yeast roll speckled with currants and often candied citron. The buns are marked with a cross. But hot cross buns can be a treat to make and eat any time of year, and they're perfect for breakfast.

Steps to make Easter Hot Cross Buns:

1. In a pan add milk and butter. When slightly warm keep aside.
2. Sift flour in a bowl. Add salt, sugar, yeast, spice powders, lukewarm milk and water and knead to a smooth dough.
3. Cover and allow it to rise for 1 hours.
4. Transfer dough to a dusted working surface and add raisins. Knead for 4-5 minutes
5. Divide the dough into equal balls and place it on a greased baking tray.
6. Cover and let it proof for 35min.
7. Make a paste of 2tbsp flour and 3 tbsp of water. Fill this in a piping bag or a zip lock bag.
8. Make cross over each bun using the paste.
9. Bake in a preheated oven at 180'c for 20-25mins.

If you try this recipe (and we hope you do!), rate it below and let us know how you liked it! History of the Hot Cross Bun: Hot cross buns are typically eaten on Good Friday and during Lent. Our hot cross buns recipe is easy-to-follow and makes the ultimate spiced, Easter treat. And there are numerous hot cross bun recipe variations for you to try - hot cross bun pudding, hot cross chocolate buns with spiced orange butter, hot cross bun layer cake and Savoury goat's cheese hot. Hot Cross Buns, it is common to enjoy them this spiced buns at Easter.

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