Hot cross buns recipe: an Easter deal with to create at home
11 April, 2020
If there is a food that Easter is synonymous with, chocolate eggs apart, it really is hot cross buns.
Here, Sonu Koithara, executive chef at Taj Jumeirah Lakes Towers, shares a recipe to generate a 25-good batch of the fruit buns.
Ingredients for the starter
200g flour
250ml warm milk
35g fresh yeast
Ingredients for the dough
500g flour
10g salt
5g bread improver
3 eggs
150g butter
250g black raisins (soaked water for some hours beforehand)
5g nutmeg
5g cinnamon
5g Stollen spice (or a mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves on the same quantity)
125g sugar
Ingredients for the icing
50g T55 flour
25g corn oil
56ml water
6g sugar
Method
- Mix all the ingredients for the beginner and set aside to ferment for 3 hours
- After 3 hours, mix the starter, flour, bread improver, egg, butter, nutmeg, cinnamon, stollen spice and sugar in a dough mixer on slower heat for 7 minutes
- Put the salt and continue combining for 4 more minutes, then turn up the speed and combine for another 6 minutes
- Put the raisins and combine making sure they will be evenly distributed
- Set the dough apart and allow it rest for one hour
- Preheat the oven to 170°C
- Divide the dough into 25 even pieces (about 40g per piece)
- Roll each piece right into a clean ball and arrange upon a baking tray lined with baking paper departing space between each
- For the icing, whisk all of the ingredients in a bowl until you get yourself a smooth consistency
- Lightly brush the buns with essential olive oil and pipe along each individual row of the buns and repeat in the other direction, creating the cross marks
- Bake for 12 to a quarter-hour until the buns certainly are a golden brown colour
Source: www.thenational.ae