Adeline & Lumiere - Hot Easter Buns for Breakfast

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Jenny Butler
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Jenny Butler
9th of April 2012

This week Lucy and I are delighted to have Emily of Adeline and Lumiere on the Guest Blog! Emily is a Melbourne based photographer and has one of the loveliest food blogs in town, her seasonal recipes and photography are delicious! This week Emily will be featuring a recipe a day, today starting with Hot Easter Buns for Breakfast. YUM! -Jenny x

The Adeline & Lumiere blog started shortly after our recent move to Melbourne. My partner Seb (aka Drunk Park) and I both love to cook and entertain, so I thought it’d be a good idea to photograph and document what comes out of our kitchen. The hope is to inspire others to cook through my photography.

My love of food started way back when I was a kid. My mum made the best lunches when I was at school.  Homemade pizzas and delicious bruschetta style sandwiches were always a treat.  My mum, like lots of mums, is a great cook and makes the BEST ratatouille EVER. She comes from a long line of great cooks. My French grandmother (who is certainly one of a kind) is amazing in the kitchen and from what I’ve been told, her mother (who I share the same middle name Adeline) was also phenomenal! I still hear stories around the dinner table about some of the dishes she would lovingly create.

I’m so excited to share some of these recipes with all the TDF readers over the next few days. Some of these are new recipes that I’ll be trying out for the first time, and the others are family favourites.

Hot Easter Buns for Breakfast

Saturday breakfasts would have to be one of my favourite meals of the week. I always think it’s such a reliably delicious meal as it’s pretty hard to top the classic egg and bacon combo. This is still quite a new flavour pairing for me as I never used to like bacon until a few years ago… I know, crazy, right? I do however, like to switch it up with brekky, as you can see with some of my past posts here.

My favourite breakfast at this time of the year is a delicious hot cross bun from the bakery. Despite the name, I’ve never actually had a hot cross bun so I thought that this would be the perfect time (albeit minus the cross). This is a new recipe that I had never tried before but I can highly recommend! Needless to say you need to serve these babies hot out of the oven with copious amounts of butter. Butter makes everything better.

x e.

Hot Easter Buns Adapted from Rachael Allen - Bake

100g caster sugar 225 – 300 ml warm milk 15g yeast (2 sachets) 450g flour 75g butter 2 tsp cinnamon 1.5 tsp freshly grated nutmeg 1 tsp all spice Pinch of salt 2 eggs beaten 150g mixed fruit 2 tbsp strong tea

egg wash: 2 tbsp milk 1 tsp caster sugar 1 egg yolk

Place all your fruit in a bowl and add the strong tea. Let it soak whilst preparing the rest of the mixture.

Warm 60mls of milk and add a tablespoon of the sugar. Add the yeast and let it stand for 5 minutes. After this time the mixture should be foamy.

In another bowl, sift flour and combine butter until it’s sandy in texture. Add cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, salt and the remainder sugar. Mix.

In another bowl, beat eggs slightly and add the remaining milk. Make a well in the dry ingredients and add the milk and egg mixture a little at a time until if forms a soft dough. You may not need all to use all the milk. Knead the dough until smooth.

Drain off any excess tea that the fruit hasn’t soaked up and then add the fruit to the dough mixture.

Cover the bowl with cling film and leave in a warm place for 1.5-2 hours or until it has doubled in size. After this time, knock it back and knead for another minute or two and let rest for 5 minutes.

Roll small balls of dough and place together on an oiled baking tray.

Add milk, caster sugar and egg yolk all together in a cup and brush over the buns. Allow to the dough to raise for 30-40 minutes to double in size and brush with the egg wash again carefully.

Preheat the oven to 220°C and bake for 5 minutes then reduce to 200°C and bake for a further 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack. Delish!

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