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
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
Joy says
Tammy, thank you for sharing these with us at Treasure Box Tuesday- Stumbled! 🙂