Apple & Cardamom Hot Cross Buns
Delicious brioche style hot cross buns with cardamom and apple. These buns taste as wonderful as they smell. Best served warm straight out of the oven with butter, but you can freeze them to keep the freshness until you need.
Ingredients
For the dough
- 200 ml milk warm but not hot (we love Anchor)
- 100 g golden sugar we love Chantal Organics
- 1 sachet 2 teaspoons dry active yeast
- 4 cups plain flour we love Chantal Organics
- 1 ½ tbsp ground cardamom
- ½ tsp salt
- 3 medium sized apples cut into small cubes (we love Jazz apples)
- 2 eggs we love Woodland free range eggs
- 80 g butter melted (we love Anchor)
- Extra butter to grease the baking dish
- 6 tbsp flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp ground cardamom seeds
Instructions
- In a small bowl, dissolve the sugar in the warm milk. Stir in the yeast. Set aside for 10 minutes or until yeast begins to foam.
- In a large bowl mix together the flour, cardamom, salt, and apple. Add the eggs, melted butter and yeast mixture and combine using your hands. Knead the dough for 5 minutes or until dough becomes glossy and smooth. Leave to rest for 1.5 hours or until doubled in size.
- Once dough has doubled in size, cut into 12 even portions. Shape into balls and place on a buttered casserole dish or lined baking tray. Cover loosely with a damp tea towel and leave to prove for a further 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 200ºC.
- In a small bowl, mix together the 6 tablespoons of flour, vanilla and 4 -5 tablespoons of water until smooth. Spoon into a piping bag with a small nozzle (or cut a hole in the corner of a plastic bag) and pipe buns with mixture.
- Bake in the oven for 15 -20 minutes or until golden.
- Cool. Once buns have cooled, glaze with liquid honey and cardamom.
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