Good Friday Hot Cross Buns
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Recipe type: Easter
Cuisine: Christian
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Serves: 15
 
Good Friday Hot Cross Buns adapted from a recipe found in the Australian Women's Weekly Cooking Class Cookbook.
Ingredients
  • 2 x 7gm packets dried yeast
  • 1 tsp sugar + ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp plain flour + 4 cups organic flour
  • 1½ cups lukewarm milk
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 60g (2oz) butter
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp mixed spice
  • 1 lightly beaten egg
  • ⅓ cup sultanas
  • ⅓ cup currants
  • For the Crosses:
  • ½ cup plain flour
  • ⅓ cup water
  • For the Glaze:
  • 1 tbspn sugar
  • 1 tspn gelatine
  • 1 tbspn boiling water
Instructions
  1. Cream yeast with 1tsp each of sugar and flour. Add milk, mix well. Cover, stand in warm place 15 minutes or until mixture is frothy.
  2. Sift flour, salt, ¼ cup sugar and spices into a bowl. Rub in butter. Add yeast mixture, egg and dried fruit then mix in well. Cover bowl with a clean cloth, stand in warm place for 40 mins or until dough has doubled in size.
  3. Punch dough down, turn out on to floured surface, knead well until dough is smooth and elastic. Cut dough into 3 equal pieces then cut each piece into 5. Knead each into round shape. Put buns in lightly greased 18cm x 30cm lamington tin, stand in warm place 10 to 15 mins or until buns reach top edge of tin.
  4. For the Crosses:
  5. Sift flour, mix to paste with water. Fill into small plastic bag with small hole cut across corner. Pipe crosses on each bun.
  6. Bake at 250°C (475-500F) for 15-20 mins. Remove from oven.
  7. For the Glaze:
  8. Immediately brush with glaze made by dissolving sugar and gelatine in boiling water.
  9. Cool buns on a wire rack.
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Recipe by Hotly Spiced at http://hotlyspiced.com/good-friday-hot-cross-buns/