Bakery style Hot Cross Buns (Simple Baking)

Bakery Style Hot Cross Buns (Simple Baking)

Ingredients

• 200g Bread Flour
• 50g Plain Flour
• 1 egg
• 6g Yeast
• 35g Butter
• 100g Chocolate Chips
• 80-100ml Milk
• 1/4 Tsp Salt
• 1 Tsp Cinnamon/ Mixed Spice
• 50g Caster Sugar

For the Roux

• 50g Bread Flour
• 70g Hot water

For the Topping

• 2 Tblsp Plain flour
•  Enough water

Method

1. Add Flours, sugar, yeast, egg, Sponge dough, Salt and Cinnamon or mixed spice and Start mixing adding milk little by little until it becomes a soft and smooth dough about 5 min and add butter next and keep on kneading another 10 min.
2. After put the dough in a greased bowl and leave in a warm place until double in size.
3. Next add chocolate chips and knead on the bench about 2-3 min.
4. Cut the dough in to equal parts and roll it as instructed in the video and arrange the buns next to each other leaving space to prove on a baking tray.
5. Pipe the topping and bake on 180c about 20-25 min.
6. Cool on wire racks.
7. You can freeze these and thaw as you needed.