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Hot cross buns


Serving size: Serves 10 or more
Cuisine type: Traditional
Cooking time: More than 1 hour
Special options: Kid friendly
Course: Breakfast, Snacks
Favourite flavours: Cakes/baking

Sugar and spice and all things nice — these shiny-glazed traditional buns of Easter. The recipe makes 15 buns. Of course, if you omit the crosses, the buns make good eating any time of year.
INGREDIENTS

600g (4 cups) plain flour
1 teaspoon salt
30g compressed yeast
375ml (1½ cups) milk
½ cup sultanas
60g butter
55g (¼ cup) sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon mixed spice
½ teaspoon cinnamon

METHOD

Cream yeast with 1 teaspoon each of the sugar and flour, add lukewarm milk, mix well. Cover, stand in warm place 10 to 15 minutes or until mixture is frothy. Stir flour, salt, sugar and spices, rub in butter, add beaten egg, sultanas and yeast mixture, beat well.

Cover bowl with clean cloth, stand in warm place 40 minutes or until dough doubles in bulk. Punch dough down, turn out on to floured surface, knead well until dough is smooth and elastic.

Cut dough into three equal pieces, cut each piece into five, making 15 buns in all. Knead each into round shape. Put buns in lightly greased 18cm x 28cm lamington tin, stand in warm place 10 to 15 minutes or until buns reach top edge of tin.

Sift 75g (½ cup) plain flour, mix to paste with 80ml (1/3 cup) water. Fill into small plastic bag with small hole cut across corner.

Pipe crosses on each bun. Bake at 230°C for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven, immediately brush with glaze made by dissolving 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 teaspoon gelatine in 1 tablespoon hot water. Cool buns on wire rack.

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