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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Toodles,
Tammy<3
Medeja says
I have lived in Australia for a while and still.. have never tried making hot cross buns.. 🙂
Happy Easter, dear Catherine!
Elzbieta Hester says
How pretty! I hope you had a good Easter! 🙂 ela@GrayApron
Gloria Baker says
Hope you had a wonderful Easter Catherine, lovely buns!
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
Annalisa B says
Buona Pasqua e buon lunedì dell'Angelo!!!
Ti abbraccio forte e ti faccio i complimenti per la tua golosa ricetta!!
Annalisa
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
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!
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.
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!
Angie Schneider says
Happy Easter, Catherine & Tammy!
These hot cross buns look wonderful!