- Yield: 18 Buns
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 x 2 minutes for rising, 20-25 to bake minutes
- Serving: For Family
Hot Cross Buns
We would also call these delicious hot cross buns, easter buns when we were kids. These hot cross buns are made with evaporated milk like many recipes throughout Newfoundland. I love working with dough if you have been follow my videos you may have heard me say that a few times, working with dough is the best feeling ever if you enjoy to bake. Never be afraid of working your dough or adding more flour or water while mixing at the first steps. Working with yeast its so forgiving and what I mean by that is if you let it rise and then mix it good it will be good to you.
See how easy it is to make these delicious little hot cross buns, or bread buns.
I can't say enough good things about making your own food, give it a try you may just love it too.
Let me share with you a delicious soup to go with your hot cross buns for easter or anytime of the year. Traditional Newfoundland Cabbage Soup (Lob Scouse)
I'm also going to share a link to my cookbook with a few of our Traditional Newfoundland meals in there. https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/cookbook
Please continue on to my recipe for Hot Cross Buns made in Bonita's Kitchen. 🙂 Enjoy
Ingredients
- Flour - 3 Cups
- Sugar - 1/3 Cup
- Butter - 1/4 Cup
- Yeast - 2 Tsp, fast rising or traditional
- Evaporated Milk - 3/4 Cup warm
- Warm Water - 1/4 Cup for yeast
- Allspice - 1 Tbsp or more
- Mixed Dried Fruit - 1 Cup or more
- Eggs - 2 large
- Sea Salt - 1/2 Tsp
- Honey - 1/3 Cup to glaze buns
- Ingredients for crosses and glaze:
- Flour - 4 Tbsp
- Cold Water - 3 Tbsp
- Small plastic bag - 1
Instructions
Prep Time: 15, Rising time: 20 to 30 minutes x 2 , Pre-heat oven: 350ºF, Baking time: 20- 25 min,
Method for dough:
- In a large bowl add 2 cups flour, sugar leaving 1 tsp to add with yeast, salt, allspice, dried fruit mix together.
- Then add yeast in 1/4 cup warm water and 1 tsp sugar, let rise for 5 minutes.
- Mix eggs together in a small bowl then pour in dry ingredients.
- After warm butter and milk add to dry ingredients, then add yeast mix together with wooden spoon or kitchen aid.
- Next when dough starts to come together, you can use your hand to continue mixing and kneading, use the extra 1 cup of flour to form dough into a ball.
- When dough is formed into a ball, cover and set aside in a warm place for 20-30 minutes to rise, only one rise on dough.
- While waiting for dough make the paste for the crosses on your buns, in a small bowl mix together flour and water, sit aside until ready for it.
- Back to the dough, cut dough into small pieces, then roll each piece by hand outwards and under the same as bread dough balls, then place in a baking pan.
- Then cut a cross on the top of each bun and in a plastic bag add your past, cut a little hole in the tip of plastic bag.
- Then draw a cross over each bun with flour paste.
- After put your buns in a warm area to rise for 20-30 minutes, when ready bake in a 350ºF oven for 20-25 minutes or depending on your oven.
- When baked remove from oven glaze with honey using a brush. Enjoy with butter or jam,
Baking Tips:
- After hot cross buns are cooled down put in a container with lid or plastic bag to keep soft, or freeze some to keep fresh longer.
- Having all ingredients measured and ready to work with.
These delicious hot cross buns were known as Easter buns in Newfoundland and we would have these little buns all Easter long but mostly on Easter Monday when we would have our Easter egg hunt and party.
Allergens
So many different names for these delicious little buns, bread buns with fruit, easter buns, cross buns and I’m sure you can even remember a few different names. What ever name you call them they are delicious and lovely with butter and jam.
I love working with dough if you have been follow my videos you may have heard me say that a few times, working with dough is the best feeling ever if you enjoy to bake. Never be afraid of working your dough or adding more flour or water while mixing at the first steps. Working with yeast its so forgiving and what I mean by that is if you let it rise and then mix it good it will be good to you.
Keeping your dough warm and in a warm place in your kitchen is very important in having amazing results in making buns or bread.
See how simple making hot cross buns can be, a lot better then buying them in the stores. I can’t thank you enough for visiting my website and watching my video links to these delicious recipes. Thats what its all about making good food and creating amazing results also for you and your family to enjoy your gift to them.
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Your recipe for hot cross buns is wrong. You have it down as 1 egg and on the video it’s 2. I made it with the one and it’s very stuff dough. You need that extra egg. Just thought you should know
Hi Cindy: Thank you for your message and for visiting my channel, thank you for pointing out the typo in the recipe I will fix that for sure. I’m sorry yours didn’t turn out for you because of that mistake. Please accept my apologies for that and I hope that you will continue making them and any other recipe on my website. Bonita
I think you mean a mixed spice like pumpkin or apple pie spice which contain cinnamon, nutmeg,cloves and ginger. Allspice is a seed that when ground is also lovey when added to the mix. These buns are going to be perfect with our Easter breakfast. Thank you for sharing. Happy Easter.
Hi Emy: Thank you for your message and for stopping by, I’m glad you enjoyed our hot cross buns recipe. The allspice gives it a lovely taste, you can use other spices for sure if you don’t have the one. Happy Easter 🙂 Bonita
Can you make them with choc chips? If so, when would I add them? Love watching you & trying your recipes. Thank you.
Hi Marion, Thank you for your message and for stopping by, you can add chocolate in place of the mixed fruit, maybe use less sugar in the recipe…. I guess replace the mixed fruit and add it at the sometime as the mixed fruit. I’m so glad you are enjoying our recipe and we so appreciate your support and for letting us know.
Please follow up and let me know how it goes.
🙂 Bonita