Gluten Free

No Added Sugar

Lower GI

Perfect Sweet™ Hot Cross Buns - Gluten Free No Added Sugar

Ingredients:
¾ cup Orgran gluten free all purpose plain flour
¾ cup buckwheat flour
1/3 cup potato starch
2 teaspoon guar gum gluten free
1 teaspoon salt
1 ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ Teaspoon ground nutmeg
Pinch ground clove
1 tablespoon dry yeast

Egg Mixture
2 eggs
¾ cup lite coconut milk
3 tablespoon Perfect Sweet®
2 tablespoon Bertolli light olive oil or vegetable Oil
Finely grated zest of one orange and one lemon
1 cup raisins

Egg Glaze
1 egg and 1 tablespoon water. Beat together well.

Sugar Free Icing for Crosses
½ cup Perfect Sweet®
½ teaspoon guar gum
1 teaspoon lite coconut milk

Method:
Preheat oven 180°C.
Sift flours and spices into a bowl. Mix in yeast.
In a second bowl beat eggs, Perfect Sweet®, coconut milk, oil and zest.
Add egg mixture to dry ingredients and beat well until combined.
Fold in raisins. Divide mixture into 8-10 buns.
Place dough on silicon lined tray. Set aside in a warm place for one hour to allow buns to rise.
Press a chopstick into the top of each bun to form a cross. This makes a gulley so that the icing remains in place and forms the cross.
Brush with egg glaze and bake for 20 minutes at 180°C.
Cool on a wire rack.

Grind Perfect Sweet® to a fine powder with mortar and pestle. Add the guar gum and coconut milk. Work until smooth and transfer to a piping bag and pipe crosses on the buns.

Note
I like my buns slightly warm and cut in half with butter in the middle. This delicious bun is not only gluten free but has no added sugar.