Hot Cross Buns with Marzipan Twist!! Recipe at MyDish

Hot Cross Buns with Marzipan Twist!!

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Method

  • 1. To make the buns. sieve the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and rub in the butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the yeast, sugar, fruit, peel and spice.

  • 2. Warm the milk to body temerature, pour into the flour mixture along with the egg (beaten) and mix to a soft dough.

  • 3. Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead until elastic and no longer sticky. Place back into a mixing bowl and cover the bowl with lightly oiled clingfilm and leave in a warm place for about 45 minutes or until the dough has doubled in size. Grease a baking sheet and shape the dough into 8 separate rolls - place rolls on to the baking sheet leaving plenty of space in between so they have plenty of room to rise. Cover with lightly oiled clingfilm for a second time and leave to rise in a warm room for a further 30 - 45 minutes.

  • 4. Preheat the oven to 220c (fan 200c / gas 7). Roll out the marzipan very thinly on a surface dusted with icing sugar. Cut using a sharp knife in to 16 equal strips, long enough to cover the rolls as these will be your crosses. Lightly place 2 strips onto each roll to form the cross. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

  • 5. To make the glaze, gently warm the sugar and milk until dissolved. Brush over the hot buns and bake for a further 5 minutes, or until golden brown.

  • 6. My preferred way of serving these is cut through the middle horizontally with a nice layer of butter but each to their own!!

    • Tips

    • ***TIP*** - Keep your eye on them once they go into the oven as they tend to brown very fast!

    Comments Add your comment

    • It doesn't burn but you have to watch it like a hawk!!! As long as they're golden brown consider them done. I have burnt the marzipan a few times myself but as long as they're not black burnt then browning the marzipan, just slightly, brings out the flavour even more. Thank you for your lovely comment. XxX

      by Dollface Penny on Fri Apr 22 2011   reply to this comment

    • Hi Dollface Penny - what a great recipe and a lovely twist on the original Hot Cross Bun recipe with the marzipan idea.Quick question though, does the marzipan burn when you put them back in the oven after brusing them with the glaze?

      by Team MyDish on Thu Apr 21 2011   reply to this comment

    Ingredients

    •  
    • THE MAIN BIT
    • 225g Strong white flour
    • 1 tsp Salt
    • 25g Butter
    • 1 x Sachet Fast action dried yeast
    • 40g Caster Sugar
    • 55g Mixed dried fruit
    • 25g Mixed chopped peel
    • 1 tsp Mixed spice
    • 150ml Whole milk
    • 1 Egg
    •  
    • FOR THE CROSSES...
    • 50g Marzipan
    •  
    • FOR THE GLAZE...
    • 2 tbsp Sugar
    • 1 tbsp Milk

    By Views 1137  Added Wed Apr 20 2011


    I love this recipe - it's a great Easter standard with the addition of marzipan which compliments the hot cross bun perfectly and makes them the best you'll have ever tasted

     

    Purists out there (and sorry to say boring folk!) will hate me for this, but I''''ve grown tired of boring old hot-cross buns....still with me? Good, at least you''''re not one of them folk who will have navigated away from this recipe by now! This Read More