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A Jamaican Twist connected British Tradition
The Jamaican Easter bun didn’t conscionable look retired of nowhere. Like galore of our iconic dishes, its roots hint backmost to British assemblage influence—specifically, the blistery transverse bun traditionally eaten connected Good Friday successful England. But Jamaicans being Jamaicans, we made it our own.
We took the conception and elevated it with molasses, browning, dried fruit, and affluent lukewarm spices, transforming a elemental bun into thing deeper, darker, and uniquely Jamaican.
The Spice Blend That Feels Like Home
Jamaican Easter bun wouldn’t beryllium what it is without the cleanable equilibrium of spices. This look includes:
Ground cinnamon
Fresh grated nutmeg
A interaction of clove
Fragrant allspice
These spices, combined with brownish sugar, molasses, and browning, make the deep, affluent aroma and spirit that marque each wound unforgettable. Add successful raisins and maraschino cherries, and you've got a spiced effect loaf that feels similar Easter greeting wrapped successful foil.
Why Use Yeast?
Most speedy buns trust connected baking pulverization for rise, but this look uses adust progressive yeast. That’s what gives it that fluffy, pull-apart breadstuff texture. It’s soft, yet holds up perfectly erstwhile you brace it with heavy slices of Tastee cheese—a existent Jamaican delicacy.
Burnt Sugar Goodness (aka Browning)
What gives Jamaican bun its signature acheronian colour and affluent depth? Burnt sugar, oregon much commonly, store-bought browning. When mixed with molasses, it creates a caramel-like spirit that cuts done the sweetness and spices with conscionable capable bitter to equilibrium things out.
Yeasted Jamaican Easter Bun Recipe
This look makes 2 loaves oregon 1 ample Easter bun. Perfect for sharing… oregon not. 😉
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
2 cups malta
¼ cupful blended Christmas fruit
2 ¼ cups brownish sugar
1 tablespoonful molasses
1 tablespoonful browning
2 tablespoonful vanilla essence
3 tablespoonful shortening
¼ cupful butter
Fruit
1 cupful raisins
1 cupful halved maraschino cherries (+ much for decorating)
Dry Ingredients
8 cups breadstuff flour (spoon & leveled) + other for dusting
2 packets adust progressive yeast (¼ oz each)
2 tsps crushed cinnamon
2 tsps grated nutmeg
1 spoon salt
¼ spoon crushed cloves
¼ spoon crushed allspice
For Proofing Yeast
¼ cupful lukewarm h2o (like bath water)
1 spoon brownish sugar
Glaze
2 tbsps honey
2 tbsps apricot oregon strawberry jam
3 tbsps butter
Instructions
- Proof the Yeast
Warm ¼ cupful of h2o (should consciousness similar bath water). Stir successful 1 spoon brownish sweetener and the yeast. Let beryllium until foamy (about 10 mins). If it doesn’t foam, your yeast is dead—start again. - Combine Wet Ingredients
In a ample bowl, whisk unneurotic malta, blended fruit, brownish sugar, molasses, browning, and vanilla until sweetener dissolves. Stir successful raisins and cherries. - Mix Dry Ingredients. In different bowl, whisk unneurotic flour, spices, and brackish (leave retired the yeast—already activated!).
- Combine Wet + Dry
Add fractional of the adust premix to the bedewed ingredients and fold gently. Add the remainder on with the foamy yeast mixture. Mix until a sticky dough forms.
- Knead the Dough
Turn dough onto a floured surface. Knead successful shortening and food until smooth. Place successful a greased bowl, screen with integrative wrap, and impervious successful the oven (with airy on) for 2 hours.
- Shape the Dough
Oil your hands and a cleanable surface. Punch down dough, fold inwards, past disagreement into 2 halves (or support arsenic 1 for a ample bun). Shape into loaves oregon pinwheels and spot into greased pans. Proof again successful the oven with the airy connected for 1 hour.
- Bake
Remove dough from oven and preheat to 350°F. Bake for 50-55 minutes oregon until a toothpick inserted comes retired clean.
- Glaze and Cool
Melt glaze ingredients unneurotic successful a bowl. Brush onto blistery buns caller retired of the oven. Cool wholly earlier slicing.
Serve with: Thick slices of Tastee food for the eventual Jamaican experience.
✨ Pro Tips for Perfect Buns
Use Malta for spirit and richness. If unavailable, substitute with a dark, saccharine stout.
Always impervious yeast successful lukewarm (not hot!) water.
Don’t skip the 2nd proof—it’s what gives your buns that beauteous emergence and brushed texture.
Glaze portion buns are blistery truthful it soaks successful for other spirit and shine.
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Ingredients
- Wet Ingredients
- 2 cups malta
- ¼ cupful blended Christmas fruit
- 2 ¼ cups brownish sugar
- 1 tablespoonful molasses
- 1 tablespoonful browning
- 2 tablespoonful vanilla essence
- 3 tablespoonful shortening
- ¼ cupful butter
- Fruit
- 1 cupful raisins
- 1 cupful halved maraschino cherries (+ much for decorating)
- Dry Ingredients
- 8 cups breadstuff flour (spoon & leveled) + other for dusting
- 2 packets adust progressive yeast (¼ oz each)
- 2 tsps crushed cinnamon
- 2 tsps grated nutmeg
- 1 spoon salt
- ¼ spoon crushed cloves
- ¼ spoon crushed allspice
- For Proofing Yeast
- ¼ cupful lukewarm h2o (like bath water)
- 1 spoon brownish sugar
- Glaze
- 2 tbsps honey
- 2 tbsps apricot oregon strawberry jam
- 3 tbsps butter
Instructions
- In a tiny bowl, microwave ½ cupful of h2o for astir 20 seconds. Test the somesthesia of the h2o with your fingertips. The h2o should consciousness lukewarm, similar bath water. It should not beryllium achy to touch. Add 1 spoon brownish sweetener and the yeast to the water. Stir to dissolve the yeast and acceptable it speech until it bubbles and puffs up. If the yeast doesn't foam and bubble, it is dormant and you volition request to repetition this step.
- In a ample bowl, harvester each of the bedewed ingredients (except the food and shortening) and whisk until the sweetener dissolves. Add successful dried effect and acceptable aside.
- In different ample bowl, harvester each of the adust ingredients (except the yeast which you person already activated successful measurement 1). Gently whisk the ingredients to combine.
- Gently scoop the combined adust ingredients into the bedewed constituent mixture. Use a spatula to assistance and fold until each of the flour is combined into the liquid. Add the flour successful 2 amounts. Add the foamy yeast arsenic you harvester the 2nd magnitude of flour. You volition beryllium near with a bedewed and sticky dough.
- Turn the dough retired connected a lightly dusted surface. Dust the apical of the dough with flour. Knead successful the shortening and butter. Return dough to a greased bowl.
- Cover the vessel with cling movie and spot the vessel into your oven. Turn connected the oven airy and permission the dough to treble successful size for 2 hours.
- Oil a cleanable aboveground arsenic good arsenic your hands. Pour retired the dough onto the oiled aboveground and usage your manus to fold the dough implicit onto itself a fewer times. Fold inwards from the right, left, apical and bottom.
- Use a weapon oregon dough cutter to abstracted the dough into 2 adjacent halves, if making 2 buns. Flatten the dough and rotation it into a pinwheel. Place the dough erstwhile formed, into 2 greased loaf pans. You whitethorn besides conscionable rotation into 1 pinwheel and cook a ample bun. Place the buns backmost into the oven with the oven airy connected for an further hr until they person doubled successful size. You whitethorn decorate the tops of the buns with much dried effect of your prime earlier allowing them to impervious a 2nd time.
- Gently region the buns from the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Bake the loaves for 50 minutes oregon until a toothpick inserted successful the halfway comes retired clean.
- Make the glaze 5 minutes earlier the buns are acceptable by melting each of the ingredients successful a microwavable harmless vessel and stirring with a spoon to combine.
- Remove the buns from the oven and spot connected a ligament rack. Glaze the buns portion inactive blistery by brushing connected the glaze with a silicone brushwood and permission them to wholly chill earlier cutting and serving.
- Be definite to service the buns with Tastee food slices for the champion pairing.
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