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Sugar FREE -Spelt Hot Cross Buns
Prep Time: 15 mins + 3 hours proving time
There’s no need to laden hot cross buns with added sugar or overload with dried fruit. Once you start reducing sugar in your diet, you’ll find your taste buds adjust, and the sweet burst you get from a little dried fruit is more than enough to satisfy a ‘sweet tooth’.
Have you made scones before? Then you’ll find making these hot cross buns a cinch, as the method is not that dissimilar – wholegrain flour, butter and milk form the basis for a yeasted dough, that has a beautiful soft crumb by using spelt.
300g – wholemeal spelt flour
200g – white spelt flour
7g – instant dried yeast
2/3cup – mixed unsweetened dried fruit (sultanas, currants, cranberries)
1/2cup – additional white spelt flour (for the crosses)
1 – egg, whisked with a splash of water or milk (egg wash)
Mix the flours, yeast, and spices in a large bowl.
Rub the butter into the flour until you don’t have any large lumps of butter left.
Mix in the dried fruit, then pour in the warm milk and mix until it comes together in a dough (using a flat knife can be useful in this step).