Sunday 15 December 2013

Saturday 14 December - Christmas Chelsea Buns

Some festive ingredients to make some festive Chelsea Buns



I started off by making some bread dough in the bread machine (it's a bit too cold in my kitchen for dough to rise at the moment). I enriched a basic bread dough by adding egg and milk instead of water.
Once risen it was rolled out into a rectangle, and sprinkled with some brown sugar, cinnamon, and the cranberries and pecan nuts. I also dotted a bit of butter of the dry ingredients




The dough was rolled tightly from the long side -


and then cut into nine even slices. I've found the best way to cook this sort of bun is in a square cake tin, but with some reusable silicon liner at the bottom.


The buns were left to rise again, then cooked in a hot oven.

Icing was drizzled over while still warm - I mixed some icing sugar, cinnamon and a dash of maple syrup, then added warm water until it was thin enough to drizzle over the buns.


They need to be eaten the day they are cooked really, as go stale quite quickly.

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