Double Chocolate Hot Cross Buns

  • Clock Icon Prep 20 mins Cooking 2 mins
  • Dinner Icon Makes 15

Allow 2 hours resting time.

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Ingredients

  • 4 cups The Healthy Baker Plain Flour
  • 40g cocoa
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon allspice
  • ¼ cup caster sugar
  • 1 tablespoon dry yeast
  • pinch salt
  • 250mls milk
  • 60g butter, softened
  • 1 egg, lightly whisked

For the cross

  • ½ cup The Healthy Baker Plain Flour
  • 125mls water, cold

For the glaze

  • ⅓ cup plum jam
  • ⅓ cup water
  • Instructions

    1

    Place the milk in a small saucepan on medium-high heat until warm. Whisk in the butter and egg.

    2

    Combine all dry ingredients in an electric mixer and made a well in the middle.

    3

    Pour in the milk mixture and using the kneading attachment, knead for five minutes. You can do this by hand too, in which case, tip the dry ingredients out onto a work surface, make a well in the centre tip in the warm milk mixture and bring together into a dough, knead for five minutes.

    4

    Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl and cover with a clean tea towel. Set aside until doubled in size, about two hours.

    5

    Divide dough into 12 even-sized portions, work into round balls and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper, about three centimeters apart. For this recipe, we weighed out 15 buns at 75g of dough each.

    6

    For the cross paste, whisk the flour and water together into a smooth paste and spoon into a zip-lock plastic bag. Snip the end off the bag and pipe a cross on each bun.

    7

    Preheat oven to 180C and let the buns sit for another 20 minutes.

    8

    For the glaze, combine the jam and cold water in a saucepan on low heat and gently bring to a simmer.

    9

    Brush this over the buns and place in the oven for 20 minutes. Serve with butter and a little more jam.

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