Recipe: Perfect Easy hot cross buns

Easy hot cross buns.

You can cook Easy hot cross buns using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Easy hot cross buns

1. It's of milk.
2. It's of castor sugar.
3. You need of instant yeast.
4. You need of flour.
5. Prepare of salt.
6. It's of cinnamon powder.
7. It's of nutmeg powder.
8. It's of clove powder.
9. It's of butter.
10. Prepare of flour.
11. You need of eggs.
12. Prepare of raisins.
13. It's of The glaze and topping optional.
14. It's of water.
15. You need of apricot jam warmed.

Easy hot cross buns step by step

1. Place milk, yeast and sugar in a bowl. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Set aside for about 10min or until frothy. Sift flour and spices in a large bowl and then rub the butter into the flour mixture until crumbly..
2. Make a well in the middle of the mixture then stir in eggs and yeast mixture. Now add the raisins. Combine until a dough forms. Put your dough onto a floured surface and knead for about 5/6 min until the dough is elastic and smooth. Put the dough in an oiled large and cover with cling wrap and set this aside in a warm place until doubled in size. When it has doubled in size remove from bowl and punch down dough. Knead this again and make 12 large rolls. Use a greased tray big enough..
3. Set aside for another 15/20min for rolls to rise. Preheat your oven to 200c. When rolls have risen, you can use the flour and water and pipelines across all the rolls. This is optional..
4. Bake for 10 min then reduce temperature to 180c and bake for another 15min..
5. Remove from oven and brush with apricot jam whilst warm🥰.