Recipe updated 21/04/2025.
Yes, I have a recipe for Hot Cross Buns on here already. It makes 1 dozen. I like to make a smaller batch so we don’t eat as many! I love them toasted and slathered with plenty of butter. You need TIME to make these. Not active time, but time to allow first the dough to rise and then the shaped rolls to rise.
Hot Cross Buns (2)
Author: ThermoGourmand
Recipe type: Baking
: Easter delights
Soft and deliciously spicy, these Hot Cross Buns will fill your home with the fragrance of Easter
Ingredients
- 230g water
- 45g powdered milk
- 1 Tbsp instant dried yeast
- 50g butter, cubed
- 40g brown sugar
- 380g baker's flour
- Spice mix (see below)
- 120g mixed fruit of choice
Spice Mix
- 1 Tbsp Mixed Spice
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp each of ground ginger, nutmeg and ground cloves
Piping Mixture
- 2 Tbsp plain flour
- 1 Tbsp water
- 1 tsp caster sugar
Glaze
- 2Tbsp sugar
- 1½ Tbsp water
Method
- Add water, milk powder, yeast and 1 tsp of the sugar to Thermomix bowl.
- Set machine to 3 min/37/sp 2.
- Add butter, flour and spice mix.
- Set machine to 5 min/dough.
- Add mixed fruit and set to 2 min/dough.
- Tip dough into a large, greased glass or stainless steel bowl.
- Cover and allow to rise in a warm spot until at least doubled.
- Turn out on to ThermoMat - use your spatula to remove all the dough.
- Use scraper to cut into 9 even pieces - they should weigh around 100g each.
- Roll each piece on the mat until it's a tight little ball, popping any fruit that's exposed back into the ball.
- Place into a greased and lined 20cm square cake tin.
- Cover and leave in a warm place to rise to the top of the tin.
- Preheat oven to 200C as the dough is getting close to being ready to bake.
- Make the paste in a small bowl, adding a little water at a time to achieve a good consistency, not too runny, and mixing until there are no lumps and scrape into a ziplock bag. Cut the corner - not too wide!
- Pipe a horizontal line over each row, then a vertical line.
- As you place the rolls into the oven, spray them with water and spray around the oven. This creates steam and encourages an amazing oven rise.
- Bake for 10 minutes then turn oven to 190C and continue to bake for a further 20 minutes or until golden brown on top. Tap the top - it should sound hollow. If you spray your oven with water, you'll get an even better bake.
- Leave in the tin for 5 minutes before turning (very carefully) out on to a wire rack.
- Turn over as soon as possible - again, very carefully, trying to keep them in one piece.
- Allow buns to cool and then brush with glaze.
- Place glaze ingredients in a pyrex bowl and microwave for 30 seconds. Remove with oven gloves and stir. Repeat until sugar has dissolved completely and liquid is syrupy.
