BBC Food - Recipes - Elderflower and lemon buns and spiced buns

BBC Food - Recipes - Elderflower and lemon buns and spiced buns

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These iced buns celebrate the very British flavours of elderflower and apple. For this recipe you will need a freestanding mixer fitted with a dough hook, 4 baking trays and disposable piping bags.

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Cooking tools:

  • Stand mixer
  • Piping bag
  • Instant-read thermometer
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Blender
  • Fine-mesh sieve
  • Baking sheet
  • Oven
  • Stove
  • Saucepan
  • Microwave
  • Freezer
  • Plate
  • Mixing bowl
  • Whisk
  • Plastic wrap

Ingredients

  • 250g/9oz strong white flour
  • 250g/9oz plain white flour
  • 40g/1½oz butter
  • 6g fine sea salt
  • 2 x 7g sachets instant yeast
  • 120ml/4fl oz full-fat milk
  • 2 large free-range eggs
  • 75ml/2½fl oz elderflower cordial
  • 1 cap food-grade lemon oil
  • 12 cardamom pods, crushed and seeds removed
  • 12 cloves
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • 60g/2¼oz golden caster sugar
  • 150ml/5fl oz full-fat milk
  • 80g/3oz butter
  • 160g/5¾oz golden caster sugar
  • 3 lemons , zest and juice only
  • 2 large free-range eggs and 1 large free-range egg yolk
  • 3 Braeburn apples , peeled, cored and finely chopped
  • 80g/3oz frozen cranberries , defrosted
  • 1 lemon, juice only
  • 150g/5½oz jam sugar
  • 150g/5½oz icing sugar
  • 2 tbsp elderflower cordial
  • 1 tsp vanilla paste
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 2 tsp orange juice
  • 600ml/20fl oz double cream
  • 40g/1½oz icing sugar

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