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, 2:21am
if you do not want them bland- make your own thousands of recipes on line with or without saffron
sarahb5,
Mar 18, 3:06am
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, 3:14am
what about using the poor mens saffron-- turmeric. or even just yellow colouring
sarahb5,
Mar 18, 3:26am
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 15, 7:11pm
Better to add nothing than use tumeric or colouring. Saffron has a unique flavour and colour and should not be substituted.
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