HOT CROSS BUN

Butter 80 gm

Egg 2 nos

Sugar 48 gm

Salt 8 gm

Yeast 16gm

Milk 80 ml

Water 40 ml

Rum 20 ml

Flour 480 gm

Clove 4 gm

Spice mix 4 gm

Raisin 40 gm

Milk 40 ml

Breakfast sugar 40 gm

Flour 40 gm

Mix flour and spices together. Mix the remaining ingredients together except raisins and salt. Fold flour mix in above mix and then add salt. Finally add the raisins and make a dough. Prove dough for 30 mins. Mix milk, sugar and flour together to make julipan and fill in a piping bag. Pipe julipan cross over the buns. Egg wash and sprinkle grain sugar over the buns. Bake for 20 mins at 180°C.

(Courtesy: Chef Vivek Chauhan , The Imperial, New Delhi)