HOT CROSS BUNS RECIPE

This recipe will teach you how to make Hot Cross Buns. It is a quick and easy recipe to make. Hot Cross Buns are wonderful tasting buns and I love making them at easter. These buns look just like most buns except for the cross on top but for some reason the taste is different and my family always seem to love the Hot Cross Buns better than any other bun.

Hot Cross Buns Ingredients

Icing
1 egg
1 tsp salt
1 Tbs water
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 cup hot milk
1 cup currants
1 egg well beaten
3/4 tsp cinnamon
4 cups sifted flour
1 cake compressed yeast

Hot Cross Buns Method

Pour the hot milk over the butter, sugar and salt then let cool to lukewarm. Add the crumbled yeast and let rest for 5 minutes. Add the egg, flour and cinnamon to make a soft dough and then fold in the currants and let rise in a warm place until double in bulk about 2 hours. Shape into large buns and place an inch apart on a buttered baking sheet. Let rise in a warm place until double in bulk about 1 hour. Brush tops of buns with 1 egg slightly beaten with 1 tablespoon of water. Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 20 minutes. When cool decorate top of each bun with a cross using the following icing.

Place 1/2 egg white in a small mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon beat in as much icing sugar as the egg white will absorb and add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice gradually as the mixture thickens. Make a cross at once on top of the buns as this mixture hardens quickly.

Enjoy your freshly made Hot Cross Buns!

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