Recipe of Mario Batali Hot Cross Buns

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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. Hot Cross Buns was an English street cry, later perpetuated as a nursery rhyme and an aid in musical education. It refers to the spiced English confection known as a hot cross bun, which is associated with the end of Lent and is eaten on Good Friday in various countries. One a penny, two a penny.

Hot Cross Buns is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Hot Cross Buns is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have hot cross buns using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Hot Cross Buns:

1. Take Buns
2. Get milk
3. Take boiling water
4. Prepare sugar
5. Take active dry yeast
6. Get flour
7. Prepare butter
8. Make ready brown sugar
9. Take eggs
10. Make ready salt
11. Get mixed spice
12. Get ground nutmeg
13. Make ready ground cloves
14. Take cocoa
15. Take vanilla extract
16. Make ready raisins
17. Take sultanas
18. Prepare currants
19. Make ready glace mixed peel
20. Get flour (warmed)
21. Take Pastry Crosses
22. Take flour
23. Make ready butter (chilled)
24. Make ready water (chilled)
25. Make ready Glaze
26. Take caster sugar
27. Prepare milk

But hot cross buns can be a treat to make and eat any time of year, and they're perfect for breakfast. Brush tops of buns with egg wash. Hot cross buns, traditionally eaten on Good Friday, are steeped in superstition - a cross was cut into the top of them before baking to 'let the devil out' and some people kept buns from one Easter to the. Spoon into a piping bag with a small nozzle.

Steps to make Hot Cross Buns:

1. Set oven to 220°c. Place flour in oven to heat while working through the recipe.
2. Mix boiling water, milk, sugar in a large bowl. Sprinkle over the the yeast. Leave to stand until bubbles appear.
3. Add 2 cups of flour to the yeast mixture and mix well.
4. Cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl. Add egg, salt spices and vanilla. Mix well.
5. Combine the spice/butter mixture with the yeast mixture. Add fruit and mix with well.
6. Add most of the warmed flour to create a firm dough. Tip out onto a flowered bench and knead for 10 minutes. Cover with cling film and leave to rise until doubled in size.
7. Knock dough down. Cut into 20 pieces and form into buns. Cover with cling film. Leave to double in size.
8. While the buns rise make the pastry for the crosses. Add flour to a food processor. Cut butter into 9 cubes. Add to flour. Pulse to mix butter into the flour. While pulsing, add water in a stream until a bread crumb consistency is reached. Check that squeezing crumbs together will form a ball. Tip onto a floured bench and form into a ball. Refrigerate until the buns have risen.
9. Roll pastry to around 3mm thin. Cut strips of pastry 1cm in width and long enough to cross the top of a bun. Brush milk onto pastry and place crosses on each bun.
10. Cook buns at 220°c for 10-12 minutes.
11. While the buns cook make the glaze. Mix sugar and milk in a pot and boil for 2 minutes.
12. When buns are cooked generously brush glaze over buns while still hot. Place on a cooling rack.

Hot cross buns, traditionally eaten on Good Friday, are steeped in superstition - a cross was cut into the top of them before baking to 'let the devil out' and some people kept buns from one Easter to the. Spoon into a piping bag with a small nozzle. Pipe a line along each row of buns, then repeat in the other direction to create crosses. Ree Drummond's traditional hot cross buns recipe is delicious and easy to make. The site may earn a commission on some products.

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