Hot cross buns:

Name: Hot cross buns:
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 🌻For the bread; 2 & 1/2 cups All-purpose flour; 1/2 cup +2 Tbsp warm milk (full fat or low fat); 1/4 cup Granulated sugar; 2 tsp Instant yeast or; 2 1/2 tsp Active dry yeast; 1/2 tsp Cinnamon Powder; 1/2 tsp Ground all spices; 3/4 tsp Salt; 1 Egg; 3 Tbsp melted butter; 3/4 cup Raisins/currants/mix; 1 tsp Vanilla Extract; 4 🌻For the cross; 4 Tbsp flour Water as needed for make the flour batter; as needed 🌻For Glaze Honey or golden syrup

Lubna’s Kitchen @lubnaskitchen

United Kingdom

Fluffy, fragrant, homemade Hot Cross Buns make your own hot cross buns this Easter.
#Breakfast
#Hotcrossbun
#easter
#homemade
#bread
#baking
#bake

Lubna’s Kitchen @lubnaskitchen

United Kingdom

Fluffy, fragrant, homemade Hot Cross Buns make your own hot cross buns this Easter.
#Breakfast
#Hotcrossbun
#easter
#homemade
#bread
#baking
#bake

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Ingredients

12 servings

🌻For the bread
2& 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
1/2 cup+2 Tbsp warm milk (full fat or low fat)
1/4 cupGranulated sugar
2 tspInstant yeast or
2 1/2 tspActive dry yeast
1/2 tspCinnamon Powder
1/2 tspGround all spices
3/4 tspSalt
1Egg
3 Tbspmelted butter
3/4 cupRaisins/currants/mix
1 tspVanilla Extract
4🌻For the cross
4 Tbspflour Water as needed for make the flour batter
as needed🌻For Glaze Honey or golden syrup

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Steps

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🌻PREPARE THE DOUGH:
Into a bowl add in all the dry ingeredients.Whisk them together and keep it aside. In another bowl.add the wet ingredients and whisk them together. Combine the wet and dry ingeredients together using the rear end of a wooden spoon to form a shaggy mass of dough. Transfer the dough on to a clean work surface and knead the dough until you get a soft and elastic dough.
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If you are using a standmisxer,then it will be so much easier to prepare the dough.Add the dry ingredients into the bowl of wet ingredients and Knead the dough at medium speed and then high speed using the dough hook attachment.
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🌻FIRST PROOFING
Lightly oil a clean bowl and place the dough inside it.  Cover it with a clingfilm and let the dough sit and proof in a warm place or until it gets doubled in size.  Add the soaked and drained raisins into the dough and mix them together so that raisins are evenely doistributed in the dough.
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🌻DIVIDE AND SHAPE THE DOUGH:
Divide the proofed dough into 12 equal pieces. Shape the pieces into round balls.  Place them on a baking tray or ovenproof dish lined with parchment paper or onto a non-stick baking tray. Cover them up with a clingfilm.
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🌻SECOND PROOFING
Let the shaped dough balls sit and rise until they are doubled in size.
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🌻PIPE THE CROSS:
Mix together some flour and water fo form a thick flour batter. Transfer it on to a piping bag. Pipe cross on top of the buns
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🌻BAKE THE HOT CROSS BUNS:
Bake 190°C / 375°F for 10 minutes and then reduce the temperature to 170°C / 350°F for next 12-15 minutes. 
🌻BRUSH THE TOP WITH GLAZE: Brush the top of buns with honey or golden syrup.
Enjoy Soft and fluffy Hot Cross Buns!