Savour each delicious bite
Hot cross buns, hot cross buns, who doesn’t love hot cross buns? Those delicious spiced sweet offerings made with currants and raisins will surely remind you of your childhood. That aroma of nutmeg and cinnamon along with a cup of afternoon tea, what could be better?
A lot of bakeries in Dubai have added home delivery, so you can have them sent straight to your front door. But with time on your hands, why not try making them yourself? All you need to do is follow the recipe we sourced from Chef Sonu Koithara of the Taj Jumeirah Lakes.
Happy Easter!
Ingredients
Makes: 25 Pieces
Starter
200g Flour
250ml Warm milk
35g Fresh yeast
Dough
500g flour
10g salt
5g bread improver
3 eggs
150g butter
250g black raisins (Soaked overnight in water)
5g nutmeg
5g cinnamon
5g Stollen spice (Or a mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in the same quantity)
125g sugar
Icing
50 grams T55 (pure French flour) Flour
25 grams Corn oil
56ml water
6 grams sugar
Method
Mix together all the ingredients for the starter and set aside to ferment for 3 hours
After 3 hours, mix together the starter, flour, bread improver, egg, butter, nutmeg, cinnamon, stollen spice and sugar in a dough mixer on slow for 7 minutes
Add the salt and continue mixing for 4 more minutes
Turn up the speed and mix for another 6 minutes
Add the raisins and mix making sure they are evenly distributed
Set dough aside and let it rest for 1 hour
Preheat the oven at 170 degrees
Divide the dough into 25 even pieces (around 40g per piece)
Roll each piece into a smooth ball and arrange on a baking tray lined with baking paper leaving space between each ball
Bake for 12 – 15 minutes until the buns are a golden brown colour
For the icing, whisk together all the ingredients in a bowl until it is a smooth consistency
Lightly brush the buns with olive oil and pipe along each row of the buns and repeat in the other direction.
