For hot cross buns:
- 1 ½ cups lukewarm Milk
- ½ cup Sugar
- 1 tbsp Active dry yeast
- 4 ½ cups All-purpose flour
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Ground nutmeg
- 2 Eggs
- 4 tbsp (½ stick) Unsalted buttersoftened
- 1 cup Raisinssoaked in rum if preferred
For syrup glaze:
- ¼ cup Sugar
- ¼ cup Water
For cream cheese icing:
- ½ cup Icing sugar
- 2 tbsp Cream Cheese
- 1 tbsp Unsalted butterat room temperature
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- ½ tbsp Water
Hot Cross Buns
Is there a food that screams Easter more than Hot Cross Buns? Hot Cross Buns are a delicious seasonal treat which taste absolutely fantastic slathered with butter. Make a batch of these buns this year and watch them disappear before they’ve even cooled down!
Start by making the hot cross bun dough. The traditional dough is flavored with nutmeg and rum soaked raisins. As the buns are cooking, make a syrup from sugar and water and a cream cheese icing from icing sugar, cream cheese, butter, vanilla extract and water. Brush the buns with syrup while they are still hot from the oven. When the buns have cooled, pipe cream cheese icing over the top.
To make Hot Cross Buns, you will need the following ingredients:
Steps to make Hot Cross Buns
1 | Prepare yeast | 10 |
2 | Mix dry ingredients | 2 |
3 | Add the butter and eggs to the yeast mixture | 5 |
4 | Add the raisins | 1 |
5 | Place the dough in an oiled bowl | 2 |
6 | Prove the dough | 30 |
7 | Shape the buns | 35 |
8 | Heat the oven | 5 |
Preheat the oven to 375 °F. | ||
9 | Bake | 20 |
10 | Make syrup | 3 |
11 | Make icing | 2 |
12 | Decorate the buns | 3 |
13 | Serve | |
Recipe Reviews
This took a really long time to make and mine came out slightly crunchy and burnt on the bottom, it was edible though so I did finish them.
Affordable, simple and cute, loving these cross buns, perfect little side dish.
Can't believe it was so easy to make something so delicious, very satisfied with this recipe.
So glad that this is easy to make, I tried it out today and there were no problems, the steps are so simple to follow and the bread turns out delicious.
Family loves these buns, they are super sweet and can be eaten with anything, really good recipe.
I made this and the chick deviled eggs for breakfast because they were both too adorable to resist, everyone enjoyed it.
Heaven shaped into a bun, brought this to church on Sunday and everyone was pleased, will be making this again.
I am super excited to try these out, they look very good and I love buns!
My kids really enjoyed these buns, super sweet tasting and perfect design for anyone who loves Easter :)
Easiest bun recipe I've ever read and made myself, thanks so much for sharing this.
Great recipe but too sweet in my opinion.
Easter is going to be a BLAST with all the awesome recipes on this site, instantly bookmarked it after seeing the meatloaf "cake" and Easter bunny bread, now this!
I added some fruit to mine on the inside and it was delicious, I recommend adding jam too.
Brought these buns for a picnic and they were gone before i even took my second bite,LOL!
I wanted to try something a bit different since I'm a chocolate/hazelnut fan and therefore I added some nutella in mine, I recommend it for sure, very good tasting.
Love love love! So yummy and really good with some strawberry jam!
Instead of a cross I made tiny little hearts and poka-dots on mine for my anniversary, we both loved it.
Baked mine with some chocolate chips and they were perfectly melted into the bread..so delicious.
Didn't use cream cheese for the icing because my hubby isn't a fan so I just bought some vanilla icing at the shop pre-made, was tasty.
Cutest little buns I've ever made! Will be making these adorable breads again for sure.
Well done! Verified!
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