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Delicious homemade chocolate hot cross buns with a chocolate dough filled with chocolate chips, perfect bake for Easter – and perfectly toasted and served with a little butter! <\/h2>\n

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So.. bread… I love you. I love bread. Honestly, bread is one of my favourite things in the world! And if you make it chocolate based?! Oh it is even better by absolute far. <\/p>\n

I thought it was high time that I post another utterly delicious hot cross bun recipe for you all to enjoy after the success of my first Hot Cross Bun<\/a> recipe and oh my actual days I am in love.<\/p>\n

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Chocolate hot cross buns<\/h3>\n

Are these chocolate hot cross buns better? There is a big potential for that to be true – but I get that not everyone loves a chocolate bread bake! However, if you do, I 100% recommend that you try these out asap. <\/p>\n

For the bread dough, I really did do a similar dough to my first hot cross buns<\/a> – why change it if it works am I right?! The basics stayed really similar, but I essentially swapped the spices for the cocoa powder<\/a> and changed the flour slightly. <\/p>\n

The basic bread dough<\/h3>\n

So the basics of my hot cross bun dough is full-fat milk (always… ALWAYS… go full fat!), strong white bread flour, caster sugar, dried yeast, salt, unsalted butter and eggs. These ingredients are the best start. <\/p>\n

The dough itself can be a little ‘wet’ but you really do need to roll with it – if it is soaking, likely there was too much liquid added – but please try to stick to the recipe. Give the bread dough time to prove in its shapes before baking so you get the lightest and fluffiest texture ever. <\/p>\n

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Cocoa powder<\/h3>\n

For these, you add in the cocoa powder<\/a> to get the flavour – if you have baked my other hot cross buns you will notice that the flour levels are less, but it’s not completely replaced by cocoa powder<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I find in baking that cocoa powder<\/a> is more drying – even in my triple chocolate NYC cookies<\/a> compared to my regular NYC cookies<\/a>, there isn’t the same level of dry ingredients; you often need a smidge less like in these! <\/p>\n

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Fruit and spices<\/h3>\n

Don’t worry as well – there is no dried fruit in these – I have a large raisin hating following, so no worries, you can bake these! However, if you did want to add them in, you can substitute some of the chocolate chips for the raisins. <\/p>\n

I decided to not use any spices at all, but you can add some if you like – ginger would be delicious with the chocolate, but my favourite thing to add is orange zest or extract<\/a> – chocolate orange hot cross buns anyone?! Oh yes please that would be heaven. <\/p>\n

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Chocolate Chips<\/h3>\n

However, as I decided to not any fruit or nuts, I did decide to use a tonne of chocolate chips in these beauties – and ohhhhh my days it was glorious! 100g each of dark chocolate<\/a>, milk chocolate<\/a> and white chocolate<\/a> – and it was the best decision ever. <\/p>\n

I have also tested these with 200g of chocolate chips, and 100g fudge chunks (the kind you get in a bag near sprinkles in the supermarket), and that was insane – I have used Terrys chocolate orange chocolate, peppermint chocolate, and so on – have fun with the flavours honest! <\/p>\n

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Baking and finish <\/h3>\n

I used a larger 6cm cookie scoop to help portion my hot cross buns to roughly 95g each, and placed slightly spread out on a lined tray after lightly rolling into a ball shape. After proving, they lightly touched, and I carefully piped on the ‘cross’. <\/p>\n

Annoyingly the proving process can take a while, and often will take longer in the winter and spring months as the general environment is colder – but that’s okay. It’s a process of time, but it is worth it entirely. <\/p>\n

They bake until beautiful, and then you carefully brushing over some melted honey for the classic hot cross bun shine – but this is optional. I just love how it looks! Honestly, these are epic, and I hope you love them. Jane x<\/p>\n

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Delicious homemade chocolate hot cross buns with a chocolate dough filled with chocolate chips, perfect bake for Easter<\/span><\/div>\n