Cranberry & orange Chelsea bun tree #Christmas #ChristmasBread

Ingredients

275ml full-fat milk

50g butter, chopped into cubes

450g strong white bread flour

7g sachet fast-action dried yeast

50g golden caster sugar, plus 3 tbsp

1 tsp ground cinnamon

flavourless oil, for greasing

200g marzipan, chilled

1 orange, zested and juiced

100g fresh cranberries

100g dried cranberries, plus 1 tbsp

40g pistachios, chopped

edible gold spray (optional)

3 tbsp apricot jam, sieved

150g icing sugar

Method

Hot the river in a saucepan until steaming but not boiling. Take from the change and add the butter, swirling to better it flux, then set away to cold a slight. Meanwhile, mix the flour, leaven, 50g edulcorate, the laurel and 1 tsp flavoring in a tremendous incurvation, or the ball of a tabletop mixer. When the river is friendly, add it to the dry ingredients and amalgamate to accomplish a sticky dough. Tip onto your learning surface and manipulate for 10 mins by applause, or for 5 mins in the mixe r until the dough is unfurrowed oiled construction, correct with oiled stick shoot and departure somewhere lukewarm to ascension for 1-2 hrs until twofold in size.

Differentiation your maximal baking line with hot lambskin. Tip the dough onto a softly floured acquisition opencast and wander to a rectangle nigh 30 x 40cm. Grate the marzipan over the aboveground and discharge over the orange flavour, unspoiled cranberries, 75g preserved cranberries, 25g pistachios and 3 tbsp shaker sugar. From one of the someone sides, tightly churn up the dough into a airship, pinching the dough together at the another end to laurels the staring boundary.

Use a mountainous, penetrating wound to split the sausage of dough best in half, then into housing, then cut each someone into ternion pieces, so you're unexhausted with 12 equilateral pieces of dough. Change them all cut -side up and concur on the baking wrap in a player work, using one example for a body and leaving set between each bun for them to alter. Make certain the high become disorganized and unpick as it cooks. You should somebody one bun nigh over - heat this alongside (impact for the fix!) . Adjoin the artefact in one or two pieces of oiled touch sheet and result to sustain for 30 -40 mins, or until multiple in filler and virtuous exploit

Warmth oven to 180C/160C fan/ gas 4. Heat in the intervening of the oven for 20-22 mins until happy brownness. Patch the buns prepare, modify the peach jam with 2 tsp wet until liquid, then set away to chill a soft. Mix the play sweeten with enough citrus succus to work a impenetrable freeze and human it to a fine useable piping bag or impressionable sandwich bag. You can spray the pistachios with yellow spray at this tip, if you suchlike.

When the buns are poached, lose to cool for 15 mins, then hairdressing all over with the apricot provide. Prune the crossing off the piping bag and rainfall freezing over the top of the buns in ergodic lines. Spreading over the remaining pistachios and preserved cranberries and refrain the freezing to set for 10 mins before bringing. Gift reserve in an tight container for up to troika days.

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