I’m joining in with the Great Blogger Bake Off again this week. The theme is bread so I had attempted the ‘technical challenge’ of English muffins but I rolled out the dough a bit too thin and ended up with sort of flat bready pancakes so a second bake was definitely in order. Hubs is a fan of chelsea buns but I’m not that keen on raisins so I thought I’d adapt them to Apple and Cranberry Buns (two things I just happen to have in my kitchen today).
I started of with the basic dough recipe from the silver fox himself over on the BBC Food site so I won’t write that out again. While the dough was proving I made up my filling. I combined:
Once risen I rolled out the dough to about 20x30cm, spread on about 25g of melted butter then tipped on the filling spreading it right to the edges before rolling it up. I lined an 8″ square baking tin and cut the roll into 9 equal sized slices to fit the tin. If I did it again I’d probably go for a rectangular roasting tin and make 12 buns as these were massive. I left them to rise again for about 20 min and then baked at 170°c for 25 minutes.
Of course you’d normally ice buns like this but I knew hubs would want custard on his later and I quite like them plain so I left it off.
You can find the rest of this week’s entries by heading over to The Crazy Kitchen or Mummy Mishaps.
mmmmmm i love chelsea buns and to add a cranberry and apple filling is a great idea! i bet they tasted delicious – they certainly look it.
thank you for linking up lovely x x
Wow hon. This looks so so yummy! Pinned on the yummy board!
these look lovely & are making me very hungry!
ooooh Cat, they look delicious!
Can you use peanut butter in a chelsea bun?
Perfect autumnal treat!