Recipe: Cardamom and Orange Marmalade Not Cross Buns

Not Cross Buns

Second batch of the day meant not cross buns as our crosses where a bit useless.

Instead of fruit and cinnamon, we went for cardamom and orange as flavouring.   Using some Mckays orange marmalade as a flavouring saved adding extra sugar to the mix.

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Ingredients

• 450g strong white flour
• 1 X 7g sachets easy-blend yeast
• 3 tbsp McKays orange marmalade melted
• 200ml warm milk
• 1 egg beaten
• 50g unsalted butter, melted.
• 1tbsp whole cardamom crushed
• Topping
• 1tbsp marmalade melted

Instructions

1. Put the flour and yeast a large mixing bowl with crushed cardamom.
2. Mix well.
3. Make a well in the center and pour in the warm milk, the beaten egg and the melted butter.
4. Mix everything together to form a dough
5. Knead in the bowl or on a floured surface until the dough becomes smooth and springy.
6. Transfer to a clean, lightly greased bowl and cover loosely with a clean, damp tea towel.
7. Leave in a warm place to rise until roughly doubled in size.
8. Tip the risen dough onto a lightly floured surface.
9. Knead for a few secs, then divide into 12 even portions
10. Shape and place on a baking sheet.
11. Cover with the damp tea towel again and leave in a warm place to prove until almost doubled in size again.
12. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6.
13. Bake for 12-15 mins until the buns are golden and sound hollow when tapped on the bottom. While still warm, melt the marmalade, then brush over the buns.

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