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. Ah yes. This is an upgrade
of all upgrades. It's got chocolate in. Do you know I mean? With the little cross on,
all glazed up it's gonna 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 oh yes! First up 50 grams of butter. Get
it in a small pan and we want to melt that nice and slowly. 1 heaped teaspoon
of mixed spice, so loads of flavour right there. 50 grams of golden caster sugar
which is just over 1 tablespoon. 1/2 a nutmeg. Just give it a nice grating.
Smells amazing. Let that come together and while it's doing it's magic let's get
on the cooking. Get yourself a large bowl. 400 grams of strong flour. Make a little
well in the middle. Add one of these sachets of yeast. They always come in 7
gram 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 gonna do now is add 200 mls of whole milk. So that's gonna 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 gonna bring that yeast back to life. Just mix that up and then add in
50 grams 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. 1 hundred grams of good raisins. You want
150 grams of chocolate. So, I'm gonna break this into 12 little chunks. All
right that's gonna be a little sea of chocolate in the middle of each one. It's
gonna be awesome. It's gonna be naughty. It's gonna be delicious. With the other half
of the chocolate just break it up into the dough. Guys if you want the recipe
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something for everyone. Now I want you to just knead that chocolate and those
raisins into the dough. Look at that. When the yeast starts to activate, it
makes heat and that will start to melt those little chunks of chocolate in the
most beautiful way. So pop this in the bowl then get yourself a damp, warm cloth
over the bowl and let that prove for one hour until it's doubled in size.
The dough has had an hour, it's puffed 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 gonna be gorgeous. We're gonna let that prove for about 45
minutes. So look at these little beauties and they're gonna 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 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 degrees celsius, which is
350 fahrenheit and they're gonna 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 gonna
a tiny scent of flavour. The smell of the spices in this is amazing. Oh yes. Let
that cool down for five minutes and they're gonna be amazing, but I can't
wait five minutes. Oh, if we cut inside this little bad boy
there's the chocolate. Oh, mmmm. That is really good. Crispy on the top,
spongey in the middle, naughty and delicious and a brilliant evolution of
the classic hot cross bun