It is Good Friday today, heralding the start of the holy Easter season. For Queen Baking Club this fortnight, the recipe was fittingly Vanilla Glazed Choc Chunk Hot Cross Buns.
These hot cross buns contain a traditional blend of spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves) and raisins, together with the less traditional addition of chocolate chunks. The finished buns are glazed with a syrup that is flavoured with vanilla.
Here are my buns just before going into the oven:
I found that I needed twice the amount of flour paste suggested in the recipe to make crosses for all of my buns, 20 in all.
Here is a yummy hot cross bun, fresh from the oven and spread with butter:
The smell of hot cross buns is amazing! Loved these buns, and my colleagues seemed to like them too.
Queen's recipe is quite straight forward, should you wish to try making your own hot cross buns for today.
Wishing you a blessed Easter.
VAnilla and chocolate sounds like a great combination - and it is definitely hot cross bun season - we have made some today and they are so good fresh - I bet yours would smell amazing.
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