Q: What do you get if you pour a kettle of boiling water down a rabbit hole?
A: A hot cross bun!
A truly dreadful joke I admit but homemade hot cross buns are wonderful I promise They are time consuming but most of that is because you have to wait longer than normal to let the dough rise, partly because it is an enriched dough and partly because the spices seem to slow the yeast down
Mind you, I cheat and make and shape my dough the day before and leave to prove in fridge overnight, then remove from fridge an hour before baking so we can have them for breakfast on Good Friday without getting up at the crack of dawn!!! Continue reading