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Hot cross buns to get ready for the easter break kaos, with this Easter recipe using your bread machine. It say's everything Easter.
You know when it's around the corner, the supermarkets start putting there buns and the chocolate eggs out on the selves.
What a better way to start your easter baking with fresh homemade easter buns, making enough for the mob is going to be a task in itself, I'll bet.
It's almost like a bread recipe only the machine is set to the basic raisin dough, more like a teacake, I wonder if you could make a loaf out of this mix, I'll have to try that one out, I spose it would be like a fruit loaf.
Ingredients:
- 1 egg
- 210ml - 1 cup of milk
- 450g - 4 cups unbleached white bread flour
- 7.5ml - 1½ teaspoons mixed spice
- 2.5ml - ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2.5ml - ½ teaspoon of salt
- 50g - ¼ cup of caster sugar
- 50g - ¼ cup of butter
- 7.5ml - ½ teaspoon easy blend dried yeast
- 75g - ½ a cup of currents
- 25g - 3 tablespoons of sultanas
- 25g - 3 tablespoons of cut mixed peel
Pastry Crosses:
- 50g - ½ a cup of plain flour
- 25g - 2 tablespoons of margarine
For the glaze:
- 30ml - ½ tablespoon of milk
- 25g - 2 tablespoons of caster sugar
Method:
| Hot cross Bun Tip. Another way to make the crosses, is to roll out some shortcrust unsweetened pasty, cut into narrow strips, brush the buns with water to attach the crosses. |
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Pour the milk, egg into the bread pan, reverse the order in which you add the liquid and dry ingredients, if your machine requires this.
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Sprinkle the flour over the milk and egg, ensuring that it covers the liquid. Add the mixed spice and cinnamon. Place the salt, sugar and butter in separate corners of the pan. Make a shallow indent in the center of the flour and add the yeast.
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Set your bread machine to the dough setting, use basic raisin dough setting if available. Press start. Know lightly grease two baking sheets.
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Add the dried fruit and the peel, when the machine beeps, or 5 minutes before the end of the kneading process.
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When the cycle has finished remove the dough and place it on a lightly floured surface. Knock it back gently, then divide it into 12 pieces. Roll each piece to shape it into a ball. Place on the prepared baking sheets, cover with a greased cling wrap, leave for 30-45 minutes or until it has almost doubled in size.
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While the dough is proving, preheat the oven to 200c - 400f - Gas mark 6. Start making the pastry for the crosses, in a bowl rub the flour and margarine together till it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Bind with enough water to make a soft pastry not too runny which will be easy to pipe or roll out to make crosses.
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Put a plain small round nozzle in the piping bag and fill the bag with the pastry,cross each bun. Bake the Easter buns for 15 to 18 minutes, or until golden.
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In a small pan heat the milk and the sugar till it is dissolved. When the hot cross buns are baked take out and brush the tops of the buns so they have a shinny finish. When done let them rest for a while to cool on a wire rack, and then munch away.
This batch makes 12 hot cross buns.
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