Baking
Easter Buns
Ingredients
- 110 gr. (4 oz.) butter/margarine
- 110 gr. (4 oz.) caster sugar
- ½ tsp. almond essence
- 2 eggs
- 110 gr. (4 oz.) plain flour
- 25 gr. (1 oz.) ground almonds
- 75 gr. (3 oz.) currants*
- 50 gr. (2 oz.) sultanas*
- a little chopped peel*
- 50 gr. (2 oz.) glacé cherries, chopped
- *(you can use 125 gr. (5 oz) mixed
- dried fruit, which will include the peel
- and then add the 50 gr. (2 oz.)
- chopped glacé cherries
- Preheat oven to 170°C
- Grease and flour bun/cup cake tins
Method
1
Cream together the butter/margarine and caster sugar. Beat in the almond essence. Now beat in the eggs one at a time.
2
Sift the plain flour and stir in the ground almonds. Add 1 flat tbsp. of this mix to the dried fruit and cherries – this keeps them separate and dry, so that they don’t sink in the cake mixture.
3
Fold the flour and almonds into the creamed mixture. Stir in the currants, sultanas and cherries together with a little chopped peel.
4
Fill the bun tins and sprinkle the tops with finely chopped or flaked almonds.
5
Bake in oven at 170°C for 10-15minutes.
