Orange & Chocolate Chips Hot Cross Buns

A hot cross bun is a spiced sweet bun made with currants or raisins, marked with a cross on the top, but many different versions do exists. My today's post is one among those variations. Its completely a kid's friendly baked goodies which i simply baked with orange zest, orange juice and chocolate chips. If you love citrus flavored baked goodies, am sure you will definitely fell in love with this incredible buns.  I piped the top of these hot cross buns with two strips using both flour paste and icing sugar glaze however you can definitely skip the flour paste or else the icing sugar glaze or vice versa. After baking, i simply brushed these buns with a honey glaze to give the sweetness and a super shine.

This orange and chocolate chips hot cross buns are completely eggless but not vegan. Everyone at home enjoyed happily this incredible buns loaded with chocolate for their snacks. Am running this week's blogging marathon as Kid's delight-Easter Food as theme. I cant imagine Easter without Hot cross buns, since this week's is Easter food i couldnt stop myself as a kid's friendly chocolate chips loaded buns with orange. Since orange and chocolate chips works awesome together, obviously this hot cross buns came out extremely fabulous.

3+1/2cups Bread flour
75grams Butter
1cup Luke warm milk
1tbsp Instant yeast
2tbsp Orange zest
1/2tsp Salt
1/4cup Sugar
1/4cup Orange juice
1/2cup Chocolate chips or roughly chopped chocolate pieces

For Cross:
3tbsp Flour
2tbsp Water

Honey Glaze:
1tbsp Honey
1tsp Water

For Sugar cross:
1cup Icing sugar
1tbsp Water

Take the flour, yeast. sugar,salt in a bowl.

Add the lukewarm milk, orange juice, butter,orange zest and knead everything well until the dough turns soft and stiff dough.

Grease a bowl, drop the dough, wrap it and arrange in a warm place until its gets double in volume.

Punch the dough and add the chocolate chips or chopped chocolate pieces, now knead the dough again for 5minutes.

Divide the dough into 9 medium balls or 12 small balls, shape them well and place in a baking tray lined with a baking sheet. Cover the dough with a towel and let it sit for 45 minutes.

Meanwhile make a thick paste of flour and water and fill this in a ziplock bag. Make cross over each bun.

Preheat the oven for 350F and bake these buns for 20 min or until the crust turns golden brown. Now prepare the honey glaze and brush the top of the buns generously.

Transfer to wire rack and allow it to cool completely.

Now prepare the icing sugar glaze and filled it in piping bag, pipe again the cross on the top of the buns.

Enjoy.

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