Summary: Recipe created and tested just for you guys, Happy Easter! Trust me, they are much easier (and tastier) than you imagine.
Ingredients
- 3 x 7g sachets of instant dried yeast
- 1/2 cup sugar, plus 2 tblsp extra
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 4 1/2 cups plain flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 50g butter melted
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tsp allspice
- 2 1/2 tblsp good instant coffee (I used Moccona intensity)
- 500g small chocolate chips (dark or milk, whatever you prefer)
- 2/3 cup icing sugar
Instructions
- Microwave milk till warm but not hot (if you stick your finger in it shouldn’t be much warmer than your finger). Add the yeast, sugar and coffee and stir. Set aside for 10-15 minutes until it becomes frothy (do use a big enough container to allow for the extra volume).
- While the yeast is frothing, add the flour, salt, cinnamon and allspice to a large bowl, or an upright mixer with dough hook.
- Add the milk mixture once frothed, butter, egg and a handful or two of the chocolate chips. If using a mixer, knead dough with dough hook for 5 minutes until elastic. This will take 10-15 mins by hand.
- Grease a big bowl (oil spray is fine) and add the dough, cover with glad wrap and put it somewhere warm (it was freezing today so I floated my bowl in the sink with a bit of warm water lol).
- The dough should double in size in around an hour (may take an hour and half). Using your fist, punch down the dough and add the rest of the chocolate chips. Knead lightly and divide into 16 balls ( easiest way is to keep dividing the dough by halves).
- Place close together on a lined or greased baking tray. Turn the oven to 200 deg C to preheat.
- Cover the buns with cling wrap and allow to rise in a warm place for 20 minutes (on top of the stove works as the oven should lightly warm but do check it’s not hot). Bake for around 20-25 mins.
- Mix up the extra sugar with 1 tblsp boiling water till a nice, sticky glaze and brush over warm buns.
- Mix the icing sugar with 1tblsp water and pipe crosses on your buns. I know icing isn’t trad but what’s a little extra sweetness!
- Serve warm with far too much butter!
10 Comments
Hello!!! I love mocha hot cross buns so I found this recipe to make my own. The dough is rising as we speak, but I think I have a problem. When I added the choc chips, they melted during the kneading process. Was that supposed to happen? Obviously I will be adding more after it has risen, but I just wasn’t sure if it was correct that they melted the first time!
Hi! Great to hear you’re cooking these. It’s fine if the first bit of chocolate melts. I hope you enjoy them, we did. Happy Easter xx
Thank you for this recipe! I used to love the mocha hot cross buns from Woolworths, until they stopped making them and the Bakers Delight ones are just so expensive!!
I have made them twice now and they are so awesome! We used a breadmaker oven to knead the dough and that worked fine (if anyone else is lazy like me hehe )
I’ve come looking for this recipe cause the Mocha hot cross buns from Woolies are soo good! Never tried them before, so I’m hoping these are similar ^_^
Have you tried these yet? I think they are better than the bought ones but I am totally biased! At least when you make your own you can have them all year round, if you want to xxx
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Appreciated this recipe this year as Woolies has stopped doing the mocha buns and my partner was pretty down about missing out on having them this Easter. The buns worked out really well and my partner was very happy 🙂
Oh that’s so good to hear! And wonderful that you partner could still have their fave flavour hot cross bun this Easter.
Happy Baking xx
Thank you so much for this amazing recipe. Though we are not experienced this turned out so well we are making another batch straightaway.
Every year I struggle to get my hands on the bakers delight mocha hot cross buns. They’re so hard to come by as most stores don’t make them anymore. My mum made these today and oh my god they smell and taste exactly like the bakers delight ones! Dare I say they’re even better. So fluffy, so delicious I honestly can’t believe how good they are.