Hot Cross Buns - Diabetic Friendly
From spinach1948 14 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 18
With their tender texture and pretty frosted crosses, these buns are bouth tasty and attractive. The orange juice adds flavor to the frosting and the buns. Adapted from Dolores Skrout's recipe posted in the Taste of Home along with the photo. Read more Note I modified this recipe from the original. See less
Ingredients
- Ingredients: shopping list
- 4 to 5 cups all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1/3 cup sugar or sugar substitute shopping list
- 1 package ( ¼ -oz ) active dry yeast shopping list
- 1 ¼ tsp. ground cinnamon shopping list
- ½ tsp. salt shopping list
- 1 cup fat-free milk shopping list
- ¼ cup butter shopping list
- 2 eggs shopping list
- ¾ cup raisins shopping list
- 1 egg yolk shopping list
- 2 Tbs. cold water shopping list
- Icing: shopping list
- 1 ½ cups confectioners' sugar shopping list
- ¼ tsp. Grated orange peel shopping list
- 4 tsp. orange juice shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven at 375.
- In a large bowl, combine 2 cups flour, sugar, yeast, cinnamon and salt. In a saucepan, heat milk and butter to temp. 120 to 130. Add to dry ingredients; beat just until moistened. Add eggs; beat until smooth. Stir in raisins and enough remaining flour toform a soft dough.
- Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a bowl coated with cooking spray, turning once to coat top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Punch down; turn onto a lightly floured surface. Divide into 18 pieces; shape each into a ball. Place in two 9-inch round baking pans coated with cooking spray. Using a sharp knife, cut a cross on top of each roll. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes.
- Beat egg yolk and water; brush over buns. Bake at 375 for 18 – 22 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool. Combine icing ingredients; pipe crosses onto rolls. Yield: 1 ½ dozen.
- Serving size: 1 bun.
- Nutritional Values: Calories per serving: 207, Fat: 4g, Cholesterol: 43mg, Sodium: 107mg, Carbohydrate: 39g, Fiber: 1g, Protein: 5g
- Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, ½ fruit, ½ fat
- Note: This is Diabetic Friendly, Gastric bypass friendly, and for anyone.
- NOTE: This is modified from the original recipe.
The Rating
Reviewed by 7 people-
Good
hungrybear
in Miner loved it
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HI Ed:) This looks sooo good!! This brings back memories... Every Easter (Well, b4) My Dad and I would walk to the little Polish bakery and get a dozen of these and those 'angel wings' I'm gonna start a new tradition and make these for now and espec...more
snowcat17
in Milwaukee loved it
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Like Snowcat, I remember these from my childhood, especially at Easter. I loved them then and I love them now. Thanks for the sweet reminder.
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