Chelsea Buns recipe – nancybirtwhistle

Ingredients

• 10g dried yeast
• 300ml whole milk (warm)
• 50g soft butter
• 50g caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 500g Strong white plain flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 80-100ml warm water
• 150g mixed dried fruit and peel
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• 1/4 tsp ground mace
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 30g Marzipan chilled then grated (optional)
• 30ml marsala for soaking the fruits (or black tea)
• 8 cardamom pods plit and seeds removed and crushed
• Zest of 1 orange and 1 lemon and juice of half an orange
• juice from the other half orange plus half a lemon plus sugar (see method)
• Juice of the other half of the lemon
• 4 tbsp icing sugar (approx.) sufficient to make a thick cream consistency