Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Buns recipe idea with a twist. A bread machine dough mix, oven baked buns orange glazed for Easter.
Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Buns
Bake these Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Buns recipe idea with a twist. A bread machine dough mix, oven baked buns orange glazed for Easter. A Cooking Appliance and Oven Bake recipe idea to make life easier. A delicious hot cross bun to bake for snacks, breakfast or tea on Good Friday as a tradition. Orange flavor and glazed with orange juice for extra touch. A twist to the Easter Hot Cross Bun.
What are hot cross buns called in America?
In America hot cross buns are called Easter Buns, that are baked and offered on Easter weekends. They are the traditional buns marking the end of the Christian season of lent.
Should hot cross buns be eaten hot?
Hot cross buns can be eaten hot or cold, any time as they are just so delicious. When they become a little older “if there are some left over” Cut in half and toast in the toaster and dab a blob of butter on them for breakfast. None of them go to waist. So delicious.
What is the white or dark stuff on hot cross buns?
The buns are marked with a cross representing the crucifixion of Jesus on the cross. The spices of the normal buns, inside signifying the spices used to embalm him at his burial and sometimes also orange peel to reflect the bitterness of his time.
Ingredients
- flour and cocoa
- brown sugar
- vanilla extract
- milk
- salt
- dried instant yeast
- orange juice and zest
- chocolate chips
- cinnamon
- egg
- butter
All the amounts and the instructions to make these hot cross buns are in the recipe attached. The dough is mixed in a bread machine then handled further by hand. Baked in the oven.
Orange juice and zest.
Cinnamon
Chocolate chips
Cocoa
The basic ingredients of flour, sugar, eggs, butter, and milk and Yeast.
How To
Using a bread machine to mix the dough is my favorite thing of this recipe. Dough is just not my thing. Whisking your warm milk with the egg and vanilla extract first. Adding your ingredients into the bread machine according to their order as per bread machine on the dough mix button. Adding the cinnamon orange zest and chocolate chips when it beeps. Leaving to get kneaded and rising in the bread machine until the dough cycle has finished.
Once that step has been completed, the add flour to a surface and continue working with the dough as per recipe attached.
Forming the round balls of dough and placing in a baking pan, letting them rise. Piping the cross on the balls. Baking in the oven and glazing with orange glaze as soon as they come out done.
Serve freshly baked the same day or keep covered with a cloth at room temperature for family to enjoy at Easter Friday. (if they will last that long)
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Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Buns
Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Buns recipe idea with a twist. A bread machine dough mix, oven baked buns orange glazed for Easter.
- Prep Time: 15 min, 40 min rise
- Cook Time: 28 min baking, 40 mins dough mix
- Total Time: 113 mins
- Yield: 24 1x
- Category: Desserts, appetizer, snack
- Method: Oven Baking, bread machine
Ingredients
- 1 Cup (240 g) of lukewarm milk
- 2 teaspoons of instant dried yeast
- 1/2 Cup (100 g)of brown sugar
- 3 3/4 (450 g) flour
- 1 orange, grated zest
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1 large egg
- 5 Tablespoons (70 g) room temperature soft unsalted butter
- 1 Cup of dark chocolate chips
CROSSES
- 5 Tablespoons (45g) of flour
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons (10g)of cocoa
- 1 teaspoon of brown sugar
- 3 Tablespoons (45g)of water
GLAZE
- 1/4 Cup (60g) freshly squeezed orange juice
- 2 Tablespoons(25g) of brown sugar
Instructions
DOUGH mix in Bread Machine
- Mix the egg and warm milk and vanilla with a whisk before adding to the bread machine.
- Then add the ingredients to the bread machine according to the directions of your bread machine. Normally you add your liquid first, then flour, cocoa, sugar, salt, yeast and soft butter.
- Set the Bread machine on the dough cycle. When it beeps to add other ingredients this is when you add the cinnamon, orange zest and chocolate chips. Let the bread machine mix the dough, when it has doubled in size then take it out and place it on the floured surface. Punch down and knead about 6-10 times. Leave to rest for 10 minutes.
BY HAND
- Grease a baking tray of about 9 inches square.
- Form round balls with the proofed dough, and place in the baking pan. Cover with a cloth and let it rise for about 40-50 minutes. (until risen well, double it size)
BAKING
- Preheat the oven to 180 Deg. C (350 Deg. F)
- Then mix the flour, cocoa and sugar together and pipe the crosses on top of the hot cross buns.
- Bake the buns for about 25-28 minutes
GLAZING HOT BUNS
In a saucepan combine the orange juice and sugar together and bring to a simmer and mix until the sugar has dissolved. When the buns comes out of the oven, brush them with the warm glazing on the top.
Best to serve and enjoy the buns on the same day freshly baked. But you can keep them for three days covered at room temperature. Great to freeze for at least 3 months. Sealed.
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