{"id":4443,"date":"2013-04-01T14:35:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T12:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:08:21","slug":"schokoladen-hot-cross-buns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/2013\/04\/schokoladen-hot-cross-buns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Hot Cross Buns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Hot Cross buns\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Hot-Cross-buns.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Cross buns\" width=\"205\" height=\"304\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I saw Hot Cross Buns on an English Blog some years ago, I was fascinated by their look and the describtion of the spices (cinnamon, allspice, cardamom). But living together with a person who does not like raisins at all, baking them never made sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>But this year I learned that in Australia and New Zealand Hot Cross Buns are often baked with chocolate instead of raisins. That was the solution to my problem!<\/p>\n<p>And so I baked Hot Cross Buns for Breakfast on Easter Monday. I made the sleeping long variation \u2013 like my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/2012\/05\/burger-brtchen-bernacht-variante\/\">Burger Buns<\/a> the Hot Cross Buns are made with only a tiny bit of fresh yeast, so I can form them the night before. They proof by roomtemperature and the next morning I only had to pipe the crosses and put them in the oven. And until I cooked coffee and prepared our breakfast table, the buns are done.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a better start in a day then with a cup of coffee and still hot chocolate hot cross buns with the flavour of cinnamon, cardamom and allspice?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chocolate Hot Cross Buns<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>yields about 16 Hot Cross Bunds<\/p>\n<p><strong>Water Roux<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>150g Water<\/li>\n<li>30g flour Type 550<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dough<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water Roux<\/li>\n<li>630g flour Type 550<\/li>\n<li>80g Oil<\/li>\n<li>5g Salt<\/li>\n<li>2g fresh yeast<\/li>\n<li>120g Egg (2 Eggs Size L)<\/li>\n<li>50g sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 Tsp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.den\/\/e2012\/10\/winterwrze\/\">Winter spice mix<\/a><\/li>\n<li>125g Water<\/li>\n<li>200g Semisweet chocolate, chopped<\/li>\n<li>50g Almonds, chopped<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For the cross<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>85g flour Type 550<\/li>\n<li>20g sugar<\/li>\n<li>25g oil<\/li>\n<li>60g Water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>sugar glazing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50g sugar<\/li>\n<li>35g Water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the water roux whisk water and flour until lump free, then heat it up to 65\u00b0C (needs about 3 min) while whisking. Fill the water roux in a bowl, cover its surface with cling foil and let it cool down to room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>Knead all ingredients except almond and chocolate for 5 min at slowest speed, then around 8min on fast speed until complete gluten development. Now add the chopped chocolate and almond and knead until incooperated.<\/p>\n<p>Ferment for 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Divide into 80g pieces and form to balls. Place the buns on a paper lined baking tray.<\/p>\n<p>Cover and proof overnight (about 10 hours).<\/p>\n<p>Preheat the oven to 220\u00b0C at the next morning. For the Cross mix sugar, flour and oil with water to thick but still spreadable mixture. Pipe a cross on top of the roll.<\/p>\n<p>Bake the rolls for about 15 min with steam (or 190\u00b0C convection).<\/p>\n<p>For the Glaze bring water and sugar to boil and boil. Brush the still hot stars thinly with the syrup.<\/p>\n<p>I sent this entry to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildyeastblog.com\/category\/yeastspotting\/\">Yeastspotting<\/a>, Susans weekly showcase of yeast baked good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw Hot Cross Buns on an English Blog some years ago, I was fascinated by their look and the describtion of the spices (cinnamon, allspice, cardamom). But living together with a person who does not like raisins at all, baking them never made sense to me. But this year I learned that in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,2],"tags":[296,200,344,399,273,378],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ubernacht","category-besondere-gelegenheiten","tag-piment","tag-kardamon","tag-schokolade","tag-zimt","tag-nur-mit-hefe","tag-uber-nacht"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21017,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/21017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hefe-und-mehr.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}