Making your own Hot Cross Buns!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I posted A dairy free one, can't remember if was in seasonal or dairy free. You can obviously make them non dairy free, very easy and delicious!


Sent from my iPhone, more than likely while I should be doing something else!

[Rach75]

I had every intention of making some then went to woolies yes woolies evil additives etc, and they were $1.91 for 12 ummm save my money bought them LOL

[Shanti]

I haven't made any yet got lazy....

Our local bakery sell them; they are awesome!! I've made Easter egg caramel slice instead.... Mmmmm

[sconeonamission]

I used my bread maker... I can post the recipe later if you want..

Easter egg Carmel slice?!?

[Gigi]

kids love baking right, well my 4yo does (rarely happens, so a huge novelty for her)

so i thought, right, one day of 5 day break, we will make hot x buns

found a recipe in a New Idea, ripped that out, made sure i had the ingredients.

the only thing they asked for, that i had to go and specially buy, was dry yeast.

so, we started making them 11am Saturday morning.

got the (one) batch finished at







6.30pm!!!!

Yes, 7 and a half hours it took us.

tried four times to get the yeast to activate
ended up using the fourth attempt (even though it didn't activate)
so got low, dense buns, instead of light fluffy ones (cos of faulty yeast)

if it wasn't for the kind people on my FB page, no buns would have happened at all.

beginner cook + recipe that assumes baking knowledge = ARGH!

so 4yo and i were grumpy, irritable all day, for a thing, we thought would be easy and fun.

it was presented as an easy thing to do - hmph. i think cooking with yeast, is in a catergory all of it's own. People that make bread already, i think would find it much easier.