Prep
2 HRBake
20 minsServes
12Difficulty
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About
Buns are typically hot and cross at Easter. But a soothing helping of Lyle's Golden Syrup should calm them right down!
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Hot Cross Buns Recipe
Pour the milk a saucepan and bring to a simmering point. Add the butter and golden syrup and allow to cool for 15 minutes or until luke-warm.
Place the flour, salt, sugar, yeast, cinnamon and mixed spice in a bowl, mix in.
Pour the liquid into the bowl of dry ingredients, add the beaten egg mix well and bring together to form a ball of dough.
Tip onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 minutes until smooth and elastic.
Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl and cover with oiled cling film; and leave in a warm place to rise until doubled in size, for approx. 1 hour.
Knead the fruit into the dough and distribute evenly, cover again with the cling film. Allow to rise for a further 45 minutes
Heat oven to 200c/180c Fan Gas mark 6.
Divide the mix into 12 even sized pieces and roll into a smooth ball. Arrange in rows of four, on a large baking tray lined with baking parchment, leaving a little space between each one. Cover with the oiled cling film again and leave for a further 45-60 minutes.
Before cooking, mix the flour and water together to pipe over the cross, spoon into a piping bag with a small plain nozzle. Pipe along each row of buns once, and repeat the other way to form a cross.
Bake for 20 minutes in the middle of the oven or until golden brown.
Lightly heat the syrup and marmalade, in the microwave for 20-30 seconds and once the buns are cooked brush over and leave to cool on a cooling rack.
Ingredients
1
For the buns
![Milk](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Milk.jpg)
Milk
Whole
![Butter](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Butter.jpg)
Butter
![Lyle's-golden-syrup](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Lyles-golden-syrup.jpg)
Lyle’s Golden Syrup
![Eggs](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Eggs.jpg)
Egg
![Flour](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Flour.jpg)
Plain flour
![Salt-table](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Salt-table.jpg)
Salt
![Pure Cane Caster Sugar](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Pure-Cane-Caster-Sugar.jpg)
Caster sugar
![](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/themes/tate-and-lyle-syrups/theme/assets/images/placeholder.png)
Active dry yeast
![Cinnamon](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Cinnamon.jpg)
Cinnamon
![](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/All-spice-1.jpg)
Mixed spice
![Raisins](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Raisins.jpg)
Raisins
![](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Mixed-peel.jpg)
Mixed peel
![Dried apricots](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Dried-apricots.jpg)
Dried apricots, finely chopped
For the cross piping
![Flour](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Flour.jpg)
Plain flour
![Water](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Water.jpg)
Water
For the glaze
![](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/themes/tate-and-lyle-syrups/theme/assets/images/placeholder.png)
Marmalade
Orange
![Lyle's-golden-syrup](https://www.lylesgoldensyrup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Lyles-golden-syrup.jpg)
Lyle’s Golden Syrup
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