If you love hot cross buns, and you love chocolate, here is the perfect Eastery combo! You can make these the day/night before Good Friday, bake them for just around 1/2 the recommended time, then keep them in the fridge. Then finish the cooking time specified and glaze the next morning and have a wonderful buttery breakfast. With or without the kids...let's hope they don't love them right?
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Need
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Roux
- 30 Grams bakers or strong flour
- 30 Grams raw caster sugar BUY
- 120 Grams Buttermilk
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Dough
- 300 Grams bakers or strong flour
- 50 Grams cocoa powder BUY
- Good Pinches pink salt flakes BUY
- 20 Grams butter BUY
- 210 Grams Buttermilk
- Zest 1 orange and 1 lemon, finely grated
- 3 Drops cinnamon bark oil BUY
- 3 Drops doTERRA wild orange oil BUY
- 3 Drops doTERRA lemon oil BUY
- 1/2 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 Teaspoon Mixed spice
- 2 Teaspoons Dried yeast
- 100 Grams chocolate Dark callets BUY
- 100 Grams chocolate White callets BUY
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Cross
- 100 Grams bakers or strong flour
- 100 Grams Water
- 1 Teaspoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
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Spice Glaze
- 50 Grams raw caster sugar BUY
- 75 Grams Water
- 1/2 Teaspoon Mixed spice
Do
- 1
Place roux ingredients into the Thermomix bowl and cook 3 min/80°C/speed 3. Cool slightly. Leave in the Thermomix bowl.
- 2
Add flour, cacao, salt, butter, buttermilk, zests, oils spices and yeast and mix 10 sec/speed 6. Knead 3 min/Interval.
- 3
Add chocolate and knead 1 min/Interval.
- 4
Scrape out onto floured silpat mat and wrap into a tight ball. Prove until doubled.
- 5
Shape into buns with well floured hands. 120g per bun.
- 6
Place onto a lined baking tray, cover and rise until doubled.
- 7
Meanwhile, make a paste for the crosses by placing all ingredients into the Thermomix bowl and mixing 20 sec/speed 6. Scrape and repeat. Pipe crosses onto each bun.
- 8
Place into a cold oven set to 180°C and bake for 25-30 minutes. Using a cold oven produces another little rise for your dough.
- 9
To make the glaze, place all ingredients into a saucepan and heat until the sugar has dissolved.
- 10
When you remove them from the oven, brush generously with the glaze.
- 11
Serve warm with lots of butter.