DAILY DINNERS

Put your milk & butter in a saucepan and warm through until the butter is melted. Add your flour, salt, sugar & yeast to a bowl and mix well. Allow the milk and butter mixture to cool down so it's warm to touch. Create a well in the centre of the flour before adding in the milk and butter mixture as well as the beaten egg and mix until you have a fully combined sticky dough.

Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead for 5-10 minutes. In a separate bowl mix together your sultanas, mixed peel, the orange zest, apple & cinnamon. Pour the sultana mixture over the top of the dough and knead into the dough so that all of the ingredients are well combined.

Cover the bowl with your dough in with cling film and allow to rise for 1.5 hours or until doubled in size. Knock back the air in the dough & divide into 16 pieces. Shape the dough balls into round balls and place in a baking tin lined with parchment. My baking tray was too small so I had to do this is two batches! Allow this to prove for another 1.5 hours.

Now to make the cross on top just mix together about 70g plain flour with 5 tbsp of cold water until you have a thick paste. Pop this into a zip lock bag, cut the corner & gently pipe a cross over the hot cross buns. Then you want to bake them in a 200°c oven for 14-16 mins until golden brown.

Remove from the oven & glaze with some warm apricot jam. Serve with lashings of butter & enjoy!