Some recipes
for hot cross buns suggest marking the cross before baking and filling it with a paste made from flour, water and shortening.
So when I asked you all over on social if you were keen for a healthy vegan
hot cross bun recipe, the crowd went wild!
I was a bit hesitant at making an «easy» version
of hot cross buns but WOW they are great and the white paste beats all the pastry lays.
I decided to start
making hot cross buns as my own family tradition, even if the first try was a couple of weeks late.
I
love hot cross buns and these look and sound absolutely incredible with the mango and coconut.
This cake is 100 times easier than making or using pastry as I replaced it with ready - to -
eat hot cross buns.
Because this bread was so ridiculously delicious I also adapted it into
hot cross buns which I posted here.
One thing lead to another, and I was looking at some utterly
cute hot cross buns This made me change my mind and go for the buns instead.
Now, I'm not going to pretend that these are light and fluffy like
traditional hot cross buns, but they have that familiar flavour and are incredible toasted with butter.
They're inspired by the delicious flavours
from hot cross buns, so they're full of sweet fruity goodness and lovely spices.
So naturally this got me thinking, would it be possible to make a dairy, grain and sugar
free hot cross bun version of this bread?!?
The challenge was on, and a few recipe adaptations later I present to you life changing hot cross buns!!
Grab the video recipe for my healthy vegan
hot cross bun flapjacks below and enjoy these delicious Easter themed flapjacks!
Hearty whole
wheat hot cross buns flavored with dried cranberries and orange zest, decorated with orange icing and leavened with a sourdough starter.
Living in Finland where you can't
get hot cross buns I've tried a few recipes over the last couple of years was keen to try these.
Simpler than bread -
based hot cross buns, these basic scones are an easy win for teatime with kids.
I have never tried to make
hot cross buns before, and although I am always trepidatious about using yeast in products, these worked really well.
I've hunted high and low, far and wide for a
good hot cross bun recipe, one that felt close enough to what I remember eating as a kid.
Try this twist that
uses hot cross buns instead — a great way to use up any Easter leftovers...
A zesty twist on an Easter favourite, serve with creamy lemon curd and watch these
tasty hot cross buns disappear
Easter cake recipes
Classic hot cross buns Fun Easter projects for kids Iced Easter biscuits Carrot patch cake
I prefer dried cranberries to raisins any day and orange is a natural pairing with cranberry, so I made a whole wheat
hot cross bun flavored with orange and cranberry and iced with an orange frosting cross.
If choccy and
hot cross buns just aren't your thing, a nice cake like this Vanilla Sponge with Pomegranate Jam by Madeleine Shaw is healthy and beautiful too, or perhaps a few batches of simple zesty Easter Bunny Biscuits like these goodies by The Fit Foodie pictured below:
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