Achieve these perfect Easy Bread Machine Hot Cross Buns recipe. These traditional spiced buns are perfect oven baked during Easter.
Easy Bread Machine Hot Cross Buns
The best and favorite Easter tradition is the hot cross buns. Get this easy bread machine dough and oven baked hot cross buns recipe. Family and friends will love to have them on Good Friday with butter. Glazed and spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg and mixed spice. The hot cross bun with raisins are best eaten fresh and make a delicious breakfast cut in half and toasted. It brings out the sweetness of the raisins which makes this so delicious. A Seasonal and holiday recipe for Easter. Try them you will not be disappointed.
FAQ’s
How to make 1 teaspoon of mixed spice?
A substitute for mixed spice if you do not have it. Make this recipe.
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder.
- 1 tsp ground coriander.
- About 3/4 tsp ground nutmeg.
- 1/2 tsp ginger powder.
- 1/2 tsp allspice powder.
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves.
What are some flavor enhances for hot cross buns?
These are all flavor enhances.
- Orange Zest: Adds a bright, citrusy note.
- Dried Fruit: Typically includes currants, raisins, or sultanas, providing sweetness and texture.
- Mixed Spice: A blend of spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves, which can be used as a shortcut for achieving a similar flavor profile.
Are there different glazes for hot cross buns?
There are a range of glazes to apply to hot cross buns.
- sugar syrup. sugar and water heated.
- apricot jam with water, heated.
- honey, brush with natural honey for a sweet glaze.
- egg wash, can be brushed on the hot cross buns before baking.
- marmalade jam mixed with water, heated. alternative to apricot jam.
- vanilla and sugar glaze.
- orange juice and confectioners sugar.
- milk and castor sugar glaze.
What makes hot cross buns shiny?
The lovely shine on hot cross buns are the glazes brushed on top of the warm buns. Various mixes heated up to thin them out with water. Apricot jam or other jams, honey, sugar, orange juices as well as milk. All diluted and heated up to thin the glaze out. Sweet and shiny toppings.
Ingredients for Easy Bread Machine Hot Cross Buns
- water
- melted butter
- Himalayan salt
- bread flour
- brown sugar
- milk powder (dry)
- cinnamon, nutmeg
- mixed spice
- active dry yeast
- raisins
- optional mixed peel. or (some orange zest)
For all the amounts and step by step instructions for these bread machine dough and oven baked hot cross buns, see the recipe attached. Download or print, and even use the cook mode online. 😉
How To make Easy Bread Machine Hot Cross Buns
STEP 1. Get all the ingredients together and add them into the bread mixer in the right order. (see the instructions in the recipe attached)
Spicy hot cross buns typically feature a blend of warm spices like cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, and sometimes ginger, along with dried fruit and orange zest.
STEP 2. Set the bread machine to dough mix. When it mixes and then beeps that is when you add your raisins and orange zest or chopped mixed peel. Leave to mix the dough. When it is done, then flour your surface to take out the dough mix. Knead the dough and divide it into 12 equal round portions.
STEP 3. Grease the baking sheet, and place them with space between each other. Cover with a cloth or plastic and leave to rise for about 30 minutes.
STEP 4. With a sharp knife mark cross on each bun. They should double in size.
STEP 5. Preheat the oven to 220 deg. C. (425 deg. F)
STEP 5. Form the flour paste for cross mixture with flour and water. Roll this dough out and form thin strips. Once the buns have risen, Brush the strips with water and place these thin strips in the cut made for the cross. Place in the oven to bake for 15 minutes.
STEP 6. While they bake make the glaze with 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar and 2 tablespoons of water and heat gently over the stove until all the sugar has dissolved and clear.
STEP 7. When the hot cross buns are baked, brush them with the sugar glaze while they are warm, once out of the oven.
Leave to cool on a cooling rack.
Best served on Easter Good Friday as a tradition, cut in half and buttered. Enjoy
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Easy Bread Machine Hot Cross Buns
Achieve these perfect Easy Bread Machine Hot Cross Buns recipe. These traditional spiced buns are perfect oven baked during Easter.
- Prep Time: 15 min, 30 min rising time.
- Cook Time: 1 hr 30 min, bread machine.15 min bake
- Total Time: 1 hr 45 min
- Yield: 12 1x
- Category: dessert, hot cross buns
- Method: Bread machine dough, oven baking
Ingredients
For 1.5 Pound Loaf
- 7/8 cup of water
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons of melted butter
- 1 teaspoon of Himalayan salt
- 3 cups of bread flour
- 2 Tablespoons of brown sugar
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons of milk powder (dry)
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon of mixed spice
- 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
- 1 3/4 teaspoon of active dry yeast
- 1 cup of raisins (to add when machine requires it)
- optional 50 g of mixed peel. or (some orange zest)
For the cross
- 50 g of flour
- 2 tablespoons of water
Glaze
- 2 level tablespoons of granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons of water
Instructions
- Firstly plug in the bread machine and make sure the bread pan is clean and set in place firmly. Spray a cook, lightly to prevent bread from sticking.
- Measure and add all liquid ingredients to the bread pan.
- Measure and add the dry ingredients (except the yeast) to the bread pan in the middle.
- Use your finger to form a hole(space) in the flour (but not deep enough into the liquid). This is where you would place the yeast. The yeast must NEVER come into contact with a liquid in the bread pan. Place the teaspoons of active dry yeast in this hole.
- The baking pan should be snapped into place already, then close the bread machine lid.
- Set the bread machine to dough mix.
- When it mixes and then beeps that is when you add your raisins and orange zest or chopped mixed peel.
- Leave to mix the dough. When it is done, then flour your surface to take out the dough mix. Knead the dough and divide it into 12 equal round portions.
- Grease the baking sheet, and place them with space between each other. Cover with a cloth or plastic and leave to rise for about 30 minutes.
- With a sharp knife mark cross on each bun. They should double in size.
- Preheat the oven to 220 deg. C. (425 deg. F)
- Form the flour paste for cross mixture with 50 g of flour and about 1-2 tablespoons of water. Roll this dough out and form thin strips. Once the buns have risen, Brush the strips with water and place these thin strips in the cut made for the cross. Place in the oven to bake for 15 minutes.
- While they bake make the glaze with 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar and 2 tablespoons of water and heat gently over the stove until all the sugar has dissolved and clear
- When the hot cross buns are baked, brush them with the sugar glaze while they are warm, once out of the oven.
- Leave to cool on a cooling rack.
Notes
These are all flavor enhances.
- Orange Zest: Adds a bright, citrusy note.
- Dried Fruit: Typically includes currants, raisins, or sultanas, providing sweetness and texture.
- Mixed Spice: A blend of spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves, which can be used as a shortcut for achieving a similar flavor profile.
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