Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hot cross buns. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hot Cross Buns is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Hot Cross Buns is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have hot cross buns using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:

1. Get Dough:
2. Get 250 g (2 cups) strong flour/white bread flour
3. Prepare 250 g (2 cups) plain flour/all-purpose flour
4. Get 1 tsp mixed spice
5. Make ready 125 ml (1 cup) lukewarm milk
6. Prepare 125 ml (1 cup) lukewarm water
7. Make ready 7 g (2 1/4 tsp) active dry yeast
8. Make ready 10 g salt
9. Prepare 50 g sugar (3 heaping Tbsp)
10. Make ready 1 egg, beaten
11. Take 50 g unsalted butter (3 1/2 Tbsp)
12. Make ready 100 g dried mixed fruit or raisins (a small bowlful)
13. Prepare Crosses on top:
14. Get some plain flour
15. Get water
16. Make ready Glaze:
17. Get 2 Tbsp marmalade or apricot jam
18. Prepare 2 Tbsp water

Steps to make Hot Cross Buns:

1. Mix all the dough ingredients in a large bowl until it forms a ball of dough you can knead. Remove to a board sprinkled with flour and knead for about 10 minutes until the dough is smooth, soft and elastic.
2. Form the dough into a ball and put back into the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise until about doubled in size (usually 1 hour but if it's chilly it could take 2 hours).
3. Once the dough is about double in size, bring it back to the floured board and knead it briefly to push out the air. Divide it into 8 equal pieces.
4. With each piece of dough, form round buns. Place the 8 buns on a floured or lined baking tray (leave a little space in between) and cover lightly with a tea towel. Let rise for about another 30 minutes.
5. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 200°C (400°F).
6. To make the crosses, mix together a small amount of flour with a little water until it forms a thick paste. Use the paste to make crosses across the top of each bun.
7. Bake for 15-20 minutes until the hot cross buns are golden. While the buns are baking, mix together the marmalade/apricot jam and water, then brush it over the buns when they come out of the oven (still hot!).
8. Let the hot cross buns cool on a wire rack, and enjoy for Easter!

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