To bake hot cross buns, combine water, milk, sugar, yeast and let rise for 30 minutes. Add melted butter, egg yolk, vanilla and flour mixed with spices to the yeast mixture. Knead into an elastic dough and add currants. Shape into rounds and let rise for 1.5 hours. Flatten dough and cut into rounds, place in pan and let rise 40 minutes. Bake at 375°F until golden brown, then glaze with icing sugar mixture and add crosses on top.

4. So if you are still wondering as to how to bake hot cross buns.
Check out the following simple steps

6. ½ cup water; ½ cup whole milk; ½ cup sugar; 4 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast; 1/3 cups
unsalted melted butter; 1 large egg yolk; little vanilla extract; 3 cups of flour; ¾ teaspoon
salt; ½ teaspoon grated nutmeg; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; little ground ginger;
currants plumped in microwave and then cooled; 1 beaten egg.
For glazing: 2 cups od sifted confectioner’s sugar; 2 tablespoons milk; ¼ teaspoon
finely grated lemon zest; a little vanilla extract.

8. Slightly heat water and milk in a saucepan. Remove and sprinkle yeast, a little
sugar and some flour on the surface of the liquid. Don’t stir. Leave the saucepan
till the concoction becomes a bit foamy and begins to rise over the sides of the
saucepan. The entire process should ideally take about 30 minutes.

10. Whisk butter, egg yolk and vanilla extract into the yeast
mixture in the saucepan

12. Whisk in flour, ground cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger in a separate bowl. Make
a depression in the middle of the flour mixture and slowly stir in the yeast
mixture and currants. Stir the whole thing so you’ll get a fairly consistent and
sticky dough. Add some extra flour and knead to make the dough elastic.

14.  Mould the dough
into circular buns.
 Take a bowl and
brush the sides
with butter, Spread
the dough on the
bowl and cover
with thin
transparent foil
and keep aside in
room temperature.
In about 1 and a
half hours you’ll
see the dough rise.

16. Turn the dough out and flatten it. Cut
perfect round rolls and place them in a
pan with the sides tucked in. Place the
buns seam side down. Cover with
plastic wrap and leave at room
temperature for 40 minutes

18.  Remove the plastic wrap and brush the rolls with beaten egg. Place them in a
tray and put them in an oven – pre-heated to about 375 degree F.
 When the buns are golden brown. Glaze them and make crosses on top with
the icing

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