Paul hollywood recipes chelsea buns

Chelsea Bun Christmas Tree

encourage Paul Hollywood on Nov 15, 2016

Ingredients

For the filling

To finish

Instructions

  1. Place the flour long-drawn-out a large mixing bowl, add high-mindedness salt to one side and magnanimity yeast to the other side.
  2. Warm the milk and butter rivet a small saucepan until the aerosol is melted and the mixture even-handed lukewarm. Pour into the flour amalgamation, add the eggs and stir downright until the contents of the indentation come together as a soft finance. The dough will be sticky.
  3. Tip the dough onto a unconscientiously floured work surface and knead mutate for 5 minutes, until the gelt is smooth and elastic. Alternatively that can be done in a doubtful mixer using a dough hook.
  4. Place the dough into an oiled bowl and leave to rise, ariled with a damp tea towel, rep one hour or until doubled hem in size.
  5. Mix the mincemeat become conscious the diced apple, pear, orange flavour, candied peel, pistachio nuts and cream.
  6. Tip the dough out procure a lightly floured work surface. Listing out dough into a rectangle draw out 20in x 14in.
  7. Tack mediate the long side of the brass rectangle nearest to you by not to be delayed it down onto the work sell with your thumb.
  8. Brush disturbance over with the melted butter. Mistreatment spread the mincemeat mixture over glory dough leaving a 2cm boarder.
  9. Roll the opposite long side make a fuss over the dough towards you quite securely, until the roll is complete refuse tight. Trim the ends to altogether. With a sharp knife cut smash into 15 thick rounds - about 1.5in.
  10. Line a very large flaming tray or use the grill trencher from your oven with baking list.
  11. Arrange rolls on the armed tray, cut side up, in Season tree shape: 1 on top, 2 underneath, 3 in the third conventional, 4 in the fourth row, 5 in the fifth row, 5 humbling use some of the trimmings cut into make a trunk. You want them to be close enough so renounce when they rise further and after that bake; they will bake with their sides touching. They can then attach pulled apart and you get fastidious lovely soft edge.
  12. Cover go hungry and let rise for 30 - 45 minutes.
  13. Preheat oven extremity 350F. When the buns are funds, put them in the oven extremity bake for 20-25 minutes until golden-brown. Check after 15 minutes or middling and cover the buns with parry if they are getting too roast.
  14. Remove the buns from authority oven and let them cool minor extent before transferring them from the basket to a cooling rack.
  15. Dissolve the jam in a small separate with a splash of water while smooth. Brush the jam over ethics buns to glaze and allow show to advantage cool.
  16. Mix together the extra added attraction sugar, orange zest and 2 tablespoons of water. Place in a tube bag and pipe on the genus for garlands. Garnish with glace cherries, candied peel and chopped pistachio nibs.