Hot cross bun recipe

Ingredients:

1 tbs dried yeast
1 tsp caster sugar
185ml (3/4 cup) warm milk
125ml (1/2 cup) cold milk
50g butter, melted
1 egg, lightly whisked
525g (3 1/2 cups) plain flour
200g mixed dried fruit
70g (1/3 cup) caster sugar
2 tsp mixed spice
A pinch of salt
75g (1/2 cup) plain flour
160ml (2/3 cup) water
2 tbs caster sugar

1.        Pour warm milk. Add yeast. Add sugar.

2.        Whisk together. Leave for 10 minutes

3.        Add cold milk. Add melted butter. Add one egg.

4.        Whisk together

5.        Into a large bowl, add flour, sugar and dried fruit. Add mixed spice.

6.        Mix together.

7.        Make a well in the bowl. Pour yeast mixture and stir well.

8.        Flour bench and knead dough for 10-15 minutes. If it gets sticky re-flour

9.        Spray clean bowl with oil and put dough inside of bowl. Cover with glad wrap. Leave for 1 and a half hours.

10.    Put dough on floured surface, punch a hole in middle and knead for a few minutes

11.    Break off pieces of dough and place on baking tray. Lay buns side by side. Leave for 30 minutes in a warm place, covered with a clean tea towel

12.    In a small bowl, add flour, add water. Mix together until a thick smooth paste is formed

13.    Pipe crosses onto buns. Bake 35 minutes at 180 degrees. Check that buns don’t burn.

Recipe from Nickos Bakery

Yummy yummy hot cross buns

We are looking forward to Easter coming. We decided to make hot cross buns on Wednesday to celebrate Easter. We worked in two groups to made the hot cross buns. After we finished making the buns and they were cooking in the oven, we tasted each individual ingredient that went into the mixture. We tried flour, a milky egg mixture, yeast, sugar, chocolate, salt and mixed spice. We said that the salt tasted like the ocean and we liked trying yeast because yeast is what makes bread dough grow bigger and bigger. We liked all of the ingredients except for the mixed spice.

We made so many buns that we invited our friends from Room 9 to join us for a hot cross bun celebration. Room 10 children thought their buns were the best. They were so yummy! Miss Crosland has a great hot cross bun recipe that she is going to send home with everyone from Room 10. Yum yum yum.

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