I hope you all have your Easter baskets filled, eggs brightly colored and best clothes ready. May your day be bountiful and beautiful and the sun shine brightly for your Easter parade. May you have many happy memories for all your loved ones to take home.
While we may get caught up in the all excitement of decorating and preparing our Easter table, let us not forget what Easter is really about. As we celebrate our time with family and close friends, let us also celebrate that this is Resurrection Sunday.
No-Rise Hot Cross Buns
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 1 dozen 1x
Ingredients
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Rum Raisins:
- 1/3 cup raisins, chopped
- Zest of 1 orange
- 1 tsp. mixed berry marmalade
- 1 tblsp. culinary rum
- 1/2 tsp. maple syrup
- 1/4 cup fruit juice
Dough:
- 3 cups self-rising flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk
Glaze:
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon Nielsen Massey Vanilla
- 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon of milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease a 3 qt. baking dish and set aside.
- Simmer, in a small sauce pan, over a medium heat all of the ingredients for the rum raisins. Remove from heat and transfer to a bowl and allow to cool.
- In a medium bowl, sift together flour, salt and cinnamon. Add oil, brown sugar, and egg. Mix well until well incorporated. Add the milk, half cup, at a time until a fine dough comes together. Add rum raisins and mix with your hands.
- Turn the dough onto a well-floured surface and knead until it all comes together and is smooth.
- Pull the dough apart making pool ball sized buns; the dough should make about 1 dozen hot cross buns.
- Brush each bun with an egg wash (1 egg white + 1 teaspoon milk or water).
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden.
- Remove from the oven and transfer to a cooling rack.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
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Dottie says
Happy Easter, Catherine, Tammy, and family..Your poem and words are just so lovely...These look amazing! Love Hot Cross Buns..Plus my favorite raisins, with rum no less. Lucious!!! A great way to start an Easter morning. You are correct, I agree totally, with all the preparations, bunnies, candy, etc we have to remember and not forget what Easter is all about. I watched the Easter Vigil from Rome this evening and it is so impressive. God Bless you, your family, and enjoy your day with blessing, love, and light! Dottie 🙂
mia xara says
I love your hot cross buns! Have a Blessed Easter,XO
What's Baking?? says
Delightful buns.. Happy Easter!
petronela says
Happy Easter!!!!!Loveeee
Sam Hoffer @ My Carolina Kitchen says
Lovely poem and I hope you and your family have a blessed Easter.
Sam
Miss Messy says
How lovely these look delicious! 🙂 Happy easter! Lovely poem!
Mary Callan says
Homemade Hot Cross Buns! How perfect - they look absolutely wonderful. Happy Easter to you!
Mary
Rajiv Sankarapillai says
Happy Easter !
Pam says
Those hot cross buns look very inviting! And the poem is perfect for the day. Have a Blessed Happy Easter, Catherine & Tammy!
Sandee says
I love your poems Catherine. They always make me smile.
I'm coming over for all the hot cross buns. Wow, they look ever so inviting.
Have a blessed Easter my friend. Big hugs. ♥♥♥
Angie Schneider says
Happy Easter, Catherine & Tammy!
These hot cross buns look wonderful!
T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types says
Happy Easter, Catherine and Tammy! Love the Hot Cross Buns with rum raisin - they remind me of scones fresh out of the oven! Have a lovely day!
Lea Ann (Cooking On The Ranch) says
Happy Easter to you! We spent last evening watching most of "The Ten Commandments" and will watch the rest of it today. Even though it's not about Easter, it's been a great way to spend a religious weekend. And every Easter I always wish I would have planned ahead to make Hot Cross Buns.
Laurence G. says
I LOVE the idea of those rum raisins! It is funny how, as an atheist, I am crazy about hot cross buns (in french we call them Lent buns). This morning, me and my boyfriend leaved on a quest to find a bakery that sells those lovely buns. After 3 tries, we found one. They were delicious, but I feel like your version takes them to the next level. 😉 Happy Easter Catherine!
Chatty Crone says
Okay you picture is gorgeous and so is your food.- the hot cross buns. The Easter story has a great ending! Have a blessed Easter. Sandie
Annalisa B says
Buona Pasqua e buon lunedì dell'Angelo!!!
Ti abbraccio forte e ti faccio i complimenti per la tua golosa ricetta!!
Annalisa
David says
Catherine, Your hot cross buns look great...but we cheated and picked up some breakfast pastries at a bakery on Saturday. Easter Sunday also happened to be our anniversary...so we chilled out together for most of the day. I hope that your Easter was full of love... Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
Gloria Baker says
Hope you had a wonderful Easter Catherine, lovely buns!
Elzbieta Hester says
How pretty! I hope you had a good Easter! 🙂 ela@GrayApron
Medeja says
I have lived in Australia for a while and still.. have never tried making hot cross buns.. 🙂
Happy Easter, dear Catherine!
Chelsea says
I love hot cross buns! I've never thought of eating them with cream cheese- great suggestion! Yours look beautiful. Happy belated Easter!
MonuTeena RecipesPassion says
wish you a haooy easter catherine; loving the beautiful buns dear ; adding mix berry marmalade ; seriously just loved your version 🙂 bite 🙂
lisa is cooking says
Hope you had a lovely Easter! Wish I could grab one of these hot cross buns for breakfast.
Mary Frances McNellis says
Thank you so much for sharing this post! We serve an amazing God. These hot cross buns look like the perfect way to celebrate!
Amy (Savory Moments) says
Your hot cross buns turned out perfectly!! I hoped you enjoyed your holiday (And your buns!) 🙂
tigerfish says
"Hot cross buns, hot cross buns, one a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns"! I am singing that while reading this post 🙂
Rosa's Yummy Yums says
Lovely hot cross buns! I hope you had a wonderful Easter...
Cheers,
Rosa
Anonymous says
I'm always looking for a new recipe and your Hot Cross buns look yummy.
Thank you for sharing with the Clever Chicks Blog Hop! I hope you’ll join us again next week!
Cheers,
Kathy Shea Mormino
The Chicken Chick
http://www.The-Chicken-Chick.com
Mharms says
Happy Easter, Catherine. Thank you for stopping by at my blog. 🙂 Appreciate it.
I love the hot cross buns. My mother-in-law made some for the grandchildren on Sunday.
Take care!
Winnie says
Great buns!!
Although I love working with yeast, sometime I need a quick and good recipe for buns
I've just found it! 🙂
And I love the filling
Pinning!!
Joy says
Tammy, thank you for sharing these with us at Treasure Box Tuesday- Stumbled! 🙂
Cheryl King says
I've been checking out new Hot Cross Buns recipes ever since my daughter learned about them in school and told me about how great they look. What a yummy looking one you have here! Thanks so much for sharing on The Yuck Stops Here this week! Hope to see you back next week, we’ll be starting the party on Tuesday evening at 6pm ET instead of Monday from now on! HUGS