Sugarless Raisin Buns

I love to have Raisin Buns with a cup of hot coffee for breakfast.

It feels pleasure and enjoyable to have these lovely buns which I certainly do love munching on raisins very much.

Ingredients to prepare

To make Raisin buns , you will need to prepare these common ingredients:

Fresh milk- low fat fresh is preferable for healthier buns. You can also opt for milk powder which is low in fat or baby formula milk or soya milk, whichever is available. Sometimes, I used baby formula milk because I can ensure that my kids have no allergy problems.

Honey- This Raisin buns are sugarless because I had replaced sugar with honey. You can also use Golden Syrup or brown sugar if you are out of honey. Honey gives the natural sweetness, less calories than castor sugar.

Butter- Salted or unsalted butter fits perfectly well for this recipe. However do not use margarine which is high in fats. Alternatively, you can replace it with olive oil.

Flour and baking powder– Plain flour is sufficient but if you want a healthier version, go for wheatflour. You will need to add 2 tsp of baking powder into the plain flour before you sieve them. Bread flour is better because it has protein itself but I didn’t have the stock in hand. Alternatively, you can replace it with Self Raising flour which has baking powder itself.

Yeast- You can buy small sachets of dry yeast in the supermarket. Choose dry yeast which is firmly packed, that is vacuumed. I noticed that firmly packed dry yeast enables the bread dough to double its size faster than loosely packed ones. 1 sachet is equivalent to 2 tbsp. Hence, use  tbsp for this recipe.

Raisins- Choose black raisins or sultanas without seeds. 1 small box of raisins is sufficient.

How to bake Sugarless Raisin Buns

Prep time: 10 min

Baking time: 45 min

Yield: 6 buns

Ingredients

• 200g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 14g dry yeast / instant yeast ( 1 tbsp)
• 25g butter
• 1 egg
• 110g fresh milk
• 20g honey
• 1 small packet of raisins- roughly 150g

For glazing

Egg yolk-beaten

Baking steps

1. In order to make the bread dough, sieve all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
2. Stir in the butter, mix well with your fingerstips into breadcrumbs.
3. Pour in the milk slowly, half of the amount and keep kneading the dough.
4. Add in the beaten egg, honey, pour in the remainder of the milk, knead again.
5. If the dough is too wet, add in more sieved flour.
6. Bread dough should not be sticky or too dry.
7. Hence, do not pour in ALL the milk, do it slowly.
8. Knead for 15 minutes and leave aside , cover with a towel.
9. Poke your finger into the bread dough at different parts to fill in raisins.
10. Knead again.
11. Divide dough into 6 balls.
12. Glaze another mixing bowl with olive oil. Place 6 ball of bread dough and cover with plastic wrapper.
13. Place the bowl on top of your fridge or heated area to allow the bread dough to rise double its size, approximately 40 minutes.
14. Shape the ball dough into circle and flatten it.
15. Add in some more raisins on top ( visible) .
16. Glaze with egg yolk.
17. Place raisin dough in a baking tray, lightly greased with butter.
18. Bake for 45 minutes in oven.
19. Once the buns turned golden brown, brush with a layer of salted butter and remove from oven.
20. Ready to eat!

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