Hot cross buns
By: Paul Hollywood From: Good Food Live
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Hot cross buns
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- Serves:
- 15-20 buns
Full of fruit and lightly spiced, Paul Hollywood's hot cross buns make Easter tea a little more special
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- Simnel Cake
Ingredients
- 500g strong bread flour, plus extra for dusting
- 1 1/2 tsp Salt
- 75g caster sugar
- 7 g sachet dried Yeast
- 300 ml mixed milk and water
- 150g sultanas
- zest of 2 Oranges
- 80g mixed peel
- 2 tsp ground Cinnamon
For the glaze:
- 50g Sugar
- 50 ml water
Method
1. Put the flour, salt, sugar and yeast into a bowl. Slowly add enough of the milk and water mix to achieve pliable dough. Tip out onto a lightly floured surface and knead well for 5 minutes, then put the dough back into the bowl and leave to rise for 1 hour.2. Incorporate the sultanas, mixed peel, orange zest and cinnamon into the dough and leave to rise for 1 hour.
3. Lightly grease a baking sheet. Divide the dough into 75g pieces and roll each into a ball. Put them on a baking tray and leave to rest for 1 hour.
4. Set the oven to 220°C/gas 8. Bake the buns for 25 minutes until golden brown. Combine the sugar and water together to make a syrup and brush this liberally all over the buns. Serve immediately.
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View all comments (5)My friends in Italy loved these buns and I am constantly asked if I can make them regularly. Takes time but well worth the effort.
you have not mentioned the cross on the buns what do you use
I would sujest a small amount of yellow food colouring alec.lilley@blueyonder.co.uk
just mix a little flour and water into a pastry consistency, leave, then roll it out thinly, cut into strips and place across the buns once they have risen, then bake.
What about the cross?!!