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.
Servings: 12 rolls
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!