'breads - sweet' recipes

hot pentagram buns
The basis of this recipe comes from my Muffins, scones and breads book. They called their recipe hot cross buns though. They also used a 1/4 cup of mixed peel in place of 1/4 cup of the sultanas. Since I don't like peel much I just used a whole cup of sultanas. These are very yummy buns and they feel kind of excitingly naughty to eat because they're a change to the traditional religious suggestions of the cross buns. Of course, you don't have to draw a pentagram. I'm all for encouraging diversity and personalising this to suit yourself. If you're artistic enough there are many different types of symbols representing lots of different religion and belief systems that you could draw. If you make something different, let me know and send me pictures! .. go »

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