{"id":1947,"date":"2021-03-26T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2023-07-23T08:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T15:11:46","slug":"chocolate-hot-cross-buns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/chocolate-hot-cross-buns\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Chocolate Hot Cross Buns"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-indulge-with-our-chocolate-hot-cross-buns-recipe-for-easter-it-is-a-warm-homemade-and-yummy-holiday-treat\">Indulge with our chocolate hot cross buns recipe for Easter. It is a warm, homemade and yummy holiday treat.<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ingredients-makes-16\">Ingredients: Makes 16\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2\u00a0tbsp. instant dried yeast<\/li>\r\n<li>1\/2 c sugar<\/li>\r\n<li>1.5 c lukewarm milk<\/li>\r\n<li>4.5 c plain flour\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>1 tbsp. salt<\/li>\r\n<li>3.5 tsp\u00a0butter melted<\/li>\r\n<li>1 egg lightly beaten<\/li>\r\n<li>1 tsp cinnamon<\/li>\r\n<li>2.5 c\u00a0of chips<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-for-glaze\">For Glaze<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1\/4 c sugar<\/li>\r\n<li>1\/4 c hot water<\/li>\r\n<li>1 tsp gelatin<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-for-crosses\">For Crosses:<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Mix yeast, sugar and warm milk in a bowl and stir to remove any lumps. Set aside for 15 minutes until it becomes frothy.<\/li>\r\n<li>In a large bowl, sift flour and salt. Make a well in the center and mix in the yeast mixture, butter, egg, cinnamon and 1\/3 of the chocolate chips.<\/li>\r\n<li>Knead dough for 5 minutes until elastic and place in a greased bowl covered with saran wrap in a warm area. Leave for 1 hour to 1 1\/2 hours until dough doubles in size.Preheat the oven to 400 F.<\/li>\r\n<li>Punch down the dough and add the remaining cinnamon chocolate chips. Knead lightly and divide into 16 balls. If you want to add a little more chocolate to our buns: add a small chuck of you favorite semi, milk, or dark chocolate to the center of each ball (bun). Place close together on a greased baking tray. Cover with saran wrap and allow to rise in a warm place for 20 minutes.<\/li>\r\n<li>Bake for 20-30 minutes until done. While it is baking, get the glaze ready.Glaze: simply mix all three ingredients together shortly before the time is up on the buns<\/li>\r\n<li>When buns are ready, brush with glaze.<\/li>\r\n<li>Melt white chocolate and spoon into a zip lock bag.\u00a0Then,\u00a0cut a small corner to use as piping bag to drizzle the chocolate. Draw lines across top with the drizzle.\u00a0Let chocolate dry. Top with butter to taste.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Read about\u00a0more delicious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/easter-dessert-recipes\/\">Easter Desert Recipes<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indulge with our chocolate hot cross buns recipe for Easter.  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[558,530,533],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-dessert","tag-easter","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationsitters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}