Chocolate Chip Hot Cross Buns

Warm soft and fluffy chocolate hot cross buns with gooey chocolate chips and sweet sugar glaze.

This was my first time using yeast. Up until now I have kept away from it because it takes so long to work with. It had to take something pretty special to make me give in and this was it! I can not stand the spice and dried fruit of traditional hot cross buns so when I saw these I got very excited and just had to make them.

I split the recipe in two, half gluten free so I could try some and half normal flour. It was surprising to see just how very different the two came out. I am also going to lie and tell you I purposely added more cocoa powder because we love chocolate not because I mixed up my cup sizes as I normally work with grams! (The extra cocoa was great though!)
The gluten free version was very dense and didn't rise very much so if you plan on giving this a go gluten free, a different GF flour blend than the rice flour, tapioca and potato blend I use from ASDA might be a good idea to try.
The normal version (pictured) however was so soft, fluffy and well risen! The family loved them and my husband took some to work! I highly recommend giving this recipe a go.

If you are interested in seeing the difference between the two versions I posed a photo of the two together over on my facebook page [link]

To get the recipe visit cakecrumbs, I have wanted to try out one of her recipes for so long, it was great to finally do so.


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