Hot cross buns with saffron

sarahb5, Mar 18, 5:09pm
Growing up in the UK hot cross buns were yellow and spiced with saffron - would love to try to recreate them here instead if the brown bland ones at bakeries here

lilyfield, Mar 18, 6:21pm
if you do not want them bland- make your own thousands of recipes on line
with or without saffron

sarahb5, Mar 18, 7:06pm
I do make my own, they definitely weren't bland, and I have looked online but would prefer a recipe that has already been tried by someone on here - saffron is too expensive to waste

lilyfield, Mar 18, 7:14pm
what about using the poor mens saffron-- turmeric.
or even just yellow colouring

sarahb5, Mar 18, 7:26pm
Not the same at all - I can only imagine what adding yellow food colouring would look like added to standard "brown" hot cross bun dough - would be kind of khaki coloured I should think and not very appetising

davidt4, Dec 16, 12:11pm
Better to add nothing than use tumeric or colouring. Saffron has a unique flavour and colour and should not be substituted.