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So, I'm going to show you how to make hot cross buns. Come on. What is better than hot cross buns with some butter, a cup of tea? It's such a beautiful thing.
Well, I'll tell you what's better. Chocolate hot cross buns. Yes. This is an upgrade of all upgrades. It's got chocolate in. Do you know what I mean? With the little cross on, all glazed up. It's going to be lovely. And it's so nice to do at home. The whole house smells gorgeous. So, we're taking that traditional delicious recipe and we are pimping it with chocolate. Oh, yes.
First up, 50 g of butter. Get it in a small pan and we want to melt that nice and slowly. One heaped teaspoon of mixed spice. So, loads of flavor right there. 50 g of golden caster sugar, which is just over one tablespoon. Half a nutmeg. Just give it a nice grating. Smells amazing. Let that come together.
And while it's doing its magic, let's get on with the cooking. Get yourself a large bowl. 400 g of strong flour. Make a little well in the middle. Add one of these sachets of yeast. They always come in 7 g sachets. After just 1 minute, we've got a little fry on. Right. It looks fantastic. I'm going to turn the heat off. Right. I want this to cool down.
So, what I'm going to do now is add 200 ml of whole milk. So, that's going to cool the pan down. Give it a nice little mix up. Put your finger in it. And if it's kind of like tepid, you know, not too hot, then we can add our nice large organic egg. So, in we go. And we'll give it a little whisk up. And this is just tepid now. It's not hot. It's going to bring that yeast back to life. Just mix that up. And then add in 50 g of cocoa powder. With a good pinch of salt.
As it becomes too hard to use the fork, your hands can get involved. Give it a really good knead. Kind of push the dough away from you and bring it back. And then once you kind of knead it and you can see it kind of spring back. That's when you know you've done a nice job. 100 g of good raisins. You want 150 g of chocolate. So I'm going to break this into 12 little chunks. Right. That's going to be a little sea of chocolate in the middle of each one. It's going to be awesome. It's going to be naughty. It's going to be delicious. With the other half of the chocolate, just break it up into the dough.
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The dough has had an hour. It's poofed up. Roll it out. It smells absolutely scrumptious. Cut it in half. And then cut it in half again. And then each of those little quarters into three equal balls. Flatten out that dough like that. Get your chocolate. Place it in the middle. Pull in the sides. You get a nice little ball shape like that. There'll be a little pond of beautiful chocolate right in the middle. And that's going to be gorgeous. We're going to let that prove about 45 minutes.
So look at these little beauties. They're going to be lovely and spongy. Now, I've made a little paste here. It's simply two tablespoons of flour and two tablespoons of water until it's sort of like a thick kind of pancake batter paste. And if you squeeze it to the corner, that can be a little piping bag for our crosses. And this is the cross in hot cross buns. Lovely. Look at those little beauties. In the oven they go for about 25 minutes at 180° C, which is 350° F. And they're going to be gorgeous. They smell amazing.
I've just heated through some honey. Use some rosemary as a brush and then we can just rub it all over the buns. By using the rosemary or thyme, you're going to get a tiny scent of flavor. The smell of the spices in this is amazing. Oh yes. Let that cool down for 5 minutes and they're going to be amazing. But I can't wait 5 minutes. If we cut inside this little bad boy, there's the chocolate. Oh, look. Oh, that is really good. Crispy on the top, spongy in the middle, naughty and delicious. And a brilliant evolution of the classic hot cross bun.