Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, ladybirds chocy choc cross buns. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have ladybirds chocy choc cross buns using 18 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ladybirds Chocy Choc Cross Buns:
- Get dough
- Prepare 7 grams pkt dry yeast
- Get 1 1/4 cup warm milk
- Take 1/4 cup raw sugar
- Prepare 3 cup plain flour
- Make ready 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- Get 1 tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 80 grams butter - cubed
- Get 1 egg
- Make ready 1/3 cup dark choc chips
- Prepare 1/3 cup white choc chips
- Get paste for crosses
- Get 1/4 cup plain flour
- Prepare 1 tsp raw sugar
- Prepare glaze
- Prepare 1 tsp gelatine powder
- Take 2 tsp raw sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp boiling water
Instructions to make Ladybirds Chocy Choc Cross Buns:
- Lightly oil a large bowl and set aside till dough is ready .Grease a 6cm deep by 23cm base square cake pan and set aside till needed .
- In a medium bowl place the yeast , milk and 1 tablespoon of the raw sugar and whisk to dissolve the yeast , then cover and set aside in a warm place for about 10 minutes or until foamy .
- In a separate medium bowl sift the together flour , cocoa and cinnamon , then add the cubed butter and rub the butter into the flour mix , best done with clean fingertips , until the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs .
- Now make a well in the centre of the crumbed flour mix and add the prepared yeast mixture , the lightly whisked egg and the remaining raw sugar and stir to combine all to form a dough .
- Turn the prepared dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 1 minute , then transfer to the prepared lightly oiled bowl , cover and set aside in a warm place for 1 hour or until dough has doubled in size .
- Once dough has doubled risen , punch the dough down then turn onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes or until dough becomes smooth , then add the combined choc chips and knead to combine all .
- Preheat oven to 200°C / 400°F .
- Roll dough into 16 equal sized balls and place on the prepared square cake pan and cover and set aside in a warm place for 30 minutes or until dough has almost doubled in size .
- TO MAKE THE PASTE : Place the flour , sugar and the cold water into a bowl and mix well to combine all , then spoon the paste into a piping bag with small nozzle end and carefully pipe crosses ontop and across each bun evenly as possible .
- Place prepared bun dough into the preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes on 200°C then reduce the heat to 180°C / 360°F and cook for a further 20 minutes or until the buns are golden brown and cooked through / springs back to touch .
- TO MAKE THE GLAZE : sprinkle gelatine and sugar over the boiling water in a heatproof jug and stir with a fork until gelatine has dissolved .
- Turn the cooked buns , top side up , onto a wise rack and brush the tops of all the buns with the glaze let cool and serve .
- Buns can be eaten hot or cold , with butter , cream or anyway you like . Enjoy . :-) .
- NOTE : to turn these into normal hot cross buns , just replace the cocoa powder with plain flour and replace combined chocolate chips with raisins and saltanas . ;-) .
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