These sweet and lightly frosted Amish Friendship Bread Hot Cross Buns are another fun recipe, perfect for Easter dinner.
These sweet and lightly frosted Amish Friendship Bread Hot Cross Buns are another great way to use up your starter while celebrating one of the most popular holidays of the year. Reminiscent of family dinners at Easter, these sweet treats are amazing, right out of the oven.
Amish Friendship Bread Hot Cross Buns
These sweet and lightly frosted Amish Friendship Bread Hot Cross Buns are another fun recipe, perfect for Easter dinner.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
- 3 cups flour (plus extra if needed)
- 1 cup milk (plus 1-2 tablespoons if needed)
- 1 teaspoon dry yeast
- 1¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg beaten
- 6 tablespoons butter melted
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice or ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ cup raisins or currants
- ⅓ cup candied lemon peel roughly chopped, or mixed dried fruit
- 1 cup water or rum for reconstituting fruit
Icing
Instructions
- In a large bowl, add starter, milk, yeast, salt, butter, egg, vanilla extract, cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg. Let rest for one hour.
- While the batter is resting, soak the raisins or currants in water or rum to soften. Oil a large mixing bowl and 10"-square baking pan. Set aside.
- Add 2 cups of bread flour to the large bowl of ingredients and mix until combined and dough is soft, adding additional milk if needed.
- Drain the fruit from the liquid and add to the batter bowl along with chopped lemon peel or dried fruit.
- Knead in up to another cup of flour until the dough is smooth and soft.
- Add dough to oiled bowl and cover. Let rise in a warm place for 1-2 hours.
- Grease your hands and split the dough into 12 portions. Form dough into round balls.
- Place rolls on baking sheet and let rise for another 1-2 hours, until they're puffy and touch one another.
- Preheat oven to 400° F (200° C). Whisk together egg white and milk, and brush over buns.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until the tops are light golden brown. Remove from oven and carefully burns out of pan and transfer to a cooling rack.
- Prepare Vanilla Glaze using less liquid so the glaze is thick. When buns are cool, use a spoon to drizzle the tops to form a cross.
- ENJOY!
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These are delicious! Will be making them again!
I made these for Easter and they were a hit! I did leave out the lemon peel, because I did not have any on hand and with the quarantine I wasn’t about to make a special trip out of the house. I shared a photo online and I have had a few friends ask me to make them and drop them off!
I love hot cross buns: saving this to make.
Omg…. These are so good. I had them when we visited Lancaster, PA. I would love to make this recipe using the mini bundt pans. My mom would love them. She’s 90, so it’s hard to get her excited about much but I know these… she would love ❤️
I would love to try this recipe, I would make it for my Husband and Parents for our Christmas eve dinner.
Hi Julie! Thanks for your comment — I’ve added it to our test kitchen to-do list to see what’s going on with the recipe. It was submitted by a community member so possibly an ingredient was left out (egg and egg white, I’m thinking). We’ll post an update and revise the recipe once we know what it needs. Thanks!
This is on my to do list.