Hot cross buns – The twisted chef

Ingredients

• 300 ml / 1 ¼ cups milk
• 500 gr / 4 ⅙ cups flour
• 14 gr / 2 tbsp dried yeast
• 50 gr / ¼ cups caster sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• Nutmeg
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 40 gr / ⅙ cups butter
• 150 gr easter eggs + 12 whole eggs
• 80 ml / ⅓ cups water
• 1 tbsp custard sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 star anise
• 60 gr / ½ cups flour
• 50 ml ⅙ - ⅕ cups water