These delicious homemade hot cross buns are baked with currants and topped off with a sweet apricot jam to make one tasty roll.

Ingredients:

Whole Milk

Caster sugar

Yeast

Bread flour

Salt

Pumpkin pie spice

Butter

Currants

Eggs

1

In the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk together the warm milk, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and yeast until combined. Let stand for 5-7 minutes or until a raft forms.

2

In the meantime, in a separate bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, and spices until combined.

3

Cut the butter into the flour mixture until it is about the size of rice.

4

Fold in the orange zest and currants into the dry mixture.

5

Fix the hook attachment to the stand mixer and begin to mix on low speed while adding 1 cup of the flour mixture at a time until mixed in.