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Hot Cross Buns Recipe

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups milk scalded
  • 1/4 cup white sugar
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1/4 cup light olive oil
  • 1/4 cup melted butter
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup warm water
  • 3 eggs
  • 4 pkg yeast or 9 tsp. or 3 Tablespoons
  • 1 tsp ground cardamom
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 9 cups white unbleached bread flour
  • 1-2 cups raisins

Instructions
 

  • Scald milk, stir in sugar, honey, oil, butter, salt. Measure warm water, lukewarm to the touch. Add yeast to warm water. Let stand for about 5 min. to make sure yeast is active. Pour both mixtures into the mixing bowl. Add 4 cups of flour and mix with a dough hook, adding the next 5 cups, one cup at a time, while mixing. Let dough kneed in mixer for 10 minutes. Add raisins, mix in. Remove dough from bowl and place in a huge bowl that has been sprayed with Pam or coated with a little olive oil. Cover and let rise until double in bulk. Remove dough, punch down and with a little flour on your hands, form small, golf ball-sized rolls, pulling the dough to make a smooth top on each roll. Place on a large cookie sheet sprayed with Pam. Place the rolls about an inch apart. Let rise again until double in size. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake for 20 to 25 mins.
  • Remove from oven, brush on melted butter on the tops.

Notes

Icing:
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 Tablespoons milk
Mix, adding more milk for desired consistency
Drizzle icing on top of rolls, forming a cross.