Home made Hot Cross Buns

I’ve made jamie olivers and also some tear and share ones in the sainsburys magazine last month. Both a resounding success

I didn’t get around to baking this Easter though I would have liked to if I had been more organised.
I am 75. When I was little you could only buy hot X buns on Good Friday traditionally flavoured with spice and no weird an wonderful flavours (no miss).
It was more meaningful as they weren’t sold every day of the year which actually defeats the purpose of a food marking Good Friday.

www.nancybirtwhistle.co.uk/recipes/hot-cross-buns/

Tried to make my own a couple of times, but they didn't turn out that well, and certainly couldn't compete with most shop-bought ones. I can strongly recommend the Co-op Irresistible richly fruited hot cross buns at £1.60 for a pack of 4. Much respect and well done to those of you out there who have had success with home-baking them

I live in France so can’t buy any, even Lidl didn’t have any, so I made mine in the air fryer. Turned out well, all be it strange shapes, except the crosses made from flour and water went rock hard. Pleased with the first attempt though. Next time I will do something different for the crosses. Happy Easter everyone.

I’m going to have a go at Delia’s bread machine version. Takes a bit of the work out of it. Today’s gone to pot due to a family emergency but hopefully I’ll give them a go tomorrow whilst it’s still Easter!

I've never been successful with yeast, so have been ordering mine from Sainsburies. They are lovely and fruity.

Yes made some with recipe from my good housekeeping book 1973.
They were delicious, especially with lots of butter.
All gone very quickly.
I like cooking with yeast because am amazed when it works!

Ours were fantastic, if I do say so myself...

I have made some in the past, using, like Loopyloo. the recipe from the GH recipe book, which I still use all the time. The best ones this year have been from ASDA several weeks ago. They were amazing. Don't usually shop there so I'm not sure if they were still doing them last week.

Glad it’s not just me that likes a soft, fruity bun with a bit of spice. I, too, hate all the fancy new ones. Managed to find some ‘ordinary’ ones in Asda the other day after I’d asked a shelf-filler where I could find proper, unadulterated, sticky and spicy hot cross buns. She had a chuckle and said she knew exactly what I meant

Singing nutty, so you still use that book too!
I am not alone!!!

Loopyloo, I use it for basic recipes a lot. In fact, mine, although still the original date, is a replacement because my original one fell to bits, and by the wonders of Amazon I got another one exactly the same. I have a friend who uses the same book. It's a classic - very few pictures, but just so reliable. I just had a thought - I am going to start a new thread asking GNetters to tell us all which cookery books they have used to most over the years. I suspect the Stork one will feature hugely as well.

Having lived in the US for over 30 years, I have been making my own Hot Cross Buns for about as long as that. There is nothing here to compare to ours in the UK. The recipe I use is from my Domestic Science exercise book, Lower VI, 1969-1970. True, tried and tested. Happy Easter everyone!

The Good Friday ones were so good, I just had to make some more