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
To learn more about Nielsen Massey Extracts visit their website.
Toodles,
Tammy<3
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!!
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!
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
Rosa's Yummy Yums says
Lovely hot cross buns! I hope you had a wonderful Easter...
Cheers,
Rosa
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 🙂
Amy (Savory Moments) says
Your hot cross buns turned out perfectly!! I hoped you enjoyed your holiday (And your buns!) 🙂
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!
lisa is cooking says
Hope you had a lovely Easter! Wish I could grab one of these hot cross buns for breakfast.
MonuTeena RecipesPassion says
wish you a haooy easter catherine; loving the beautiful buns dear ; adding mix berry marmalade ; seriously just loved your version 🙂 bite 🙂
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!