Hello Food Tuber's. My name is Nicole, and I'm here to teach you how to make hot cross buns.
Everyone's favourites. They're the best.
These fabulous fruit buns are topped with a traditional dough cross, and doused in a sticky orange glaze.
These hot cross buns are filled with currants, and warm spices, and it also happens that they're gluten free!
This receipe makes eight buns, and before we do anything we need to throw on a kettle of water
to boil, a pretty big kettle of water, and we'll be using it throughout the whole process.
So, our very first step is to get our yeast started.
We've got two teaspoons of yeast which is about seven grams of yeast.
A bit of sugar, tea spoon of sugar, and a half cup, 120 grams, of warm water
Next up, plump up our currants.
Now that our water is boiled, I'm going to take a bowl, fill it up with the boiling water
and stick it in my oven, with the oven light on.
and that will make my oven a perfect environment, nice and warm and moist for these buns
to rise perfectly.
Now we're going to get started on the dough.
Because it's gluten free we need to use some thickeners to help mimic the gluten.
And the best way to do that is use something called Psyllium Husk.
This is a great source of fibre, and it thickens like a miracle.
We're also are going to use something called Xanthan Gum, and a lot of people
are like what the heck is Xanthan Gum. It's again a thickener, and it's really helpful in gluten free baking.
It helps to mimic the gluten.
I'll also be throwing in three eggs.
Now Psyllium Husk and Xanthan Gum are not difficult to find.
You'll be able to find them in your local health store or you can order them online.
And then to this mixture we need a cup of 250ml of hot water.
Now after giving this a good stir, you're going to set it aside and allow it to thicken,
and this mixture will help to mimic the gluten
in the dough. It gets so thick and beautiful and it really does the trick.
Now it's time to get our dry ingredients together.
The simple recipe
We start with our cup of 130 grams of tapioca starch,
Next is three hundred grams with 2 cups of brown rice flour.
One-and-a-half teaspoons salt, a third of a cup, or 75 grams of sugar,
quarter teaspoon of nutmeg,
quarter spoon of all spice, and one a a half teaspoons of cinnamon.
The only kind of unique addition to this recipe is I will be adding a little bit baking powder
a dash of soda to help the buns pop in the oven.
Now, we need to mix up our dough, there is no kneading needed in this dough, because there's
no gluten. We don't need to work the dough to get the gluten
elastic instead we're using our dough
thickeners, and you can come and check this out. This has become very, very thick
and this is going to replace our gluten.
So I'm going to mix everything together, and I'll be throwing in the zest of one orange.
This is what the dough should look like after stirring for a couple of minutes.
And now I'll fold in my currants.
Now we tip our dough onto a nicely floured surface
And there's no kneading with this,
that's what's so nice and what makes this recipe so simple.
You just mix it up. It does need a little bit of muscle for a couple of minutes.
And now the dough is sticky, so you want to have flour covered hands,
and just get it so it's not that sticky,
and I'll cut this into eight pieces and then
we'll roll them into nice little balls and place them on a parchment covered baking pan.
Now we need to let these rise in a nice warm oven until they're almost double their size.
For the orange glaze
we need the juice of our zested orange , and two tablespoons of sugar.
Bring it to a boil and let it simmer,
for couple minutes and then turn the heat off and just
let it cool down and it will thicken up.
Now to make the dough crosses
we will need grams 40 grams, or 4 tablespoons of brown rice flour,
one tablespoon of tapioca starch,
one tablespoon of sugar, and then two tablespoons plus a little bit extra, about an extra teaspoon, of water.
So I just mixed up
our dough to make the dough crosses. Traditionally
you make a nice dough that you can roll out and lay it on top of the buns, but
without the gluten that's really difficult.
So instead I made up a dough and threw it into a piping bag and I'm going to pipe onto my buns once they've risen.
They're done. Well at least they're risen.
Now what I need to do is put
my dough crosses on and give it a nice egg wash.
The buns bake at 400 degrees fahrenheit or 200 degrees celsius for twenty five minutes, or
until they are golden.
They're done. Look at how pretty they are!
Hot Cross Buns. Now they need an orange glaze.
Mmm, lets give these a try.
Mmm, those ones are good. Soft, and warm spices and
currents are perfect and the orange zest with the orange glaze is lovely.
I would love to hear how you make hot cross bun
so throw your comments below, and I will definitely get back to you.
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