Raspberry Buns Mary Berry Food

RASP BUNS

Steps:

• Pre-heat your oven to 190° (or 170°c for a fan assisted oven or Gas Mark 5) and grease a couple of baking sheets. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, sift the flour. Add the butter/margarine and rub together with your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs.
• Add the sugar and egg to the mixture. Add the milk a spoonful at a time, mixing together to create a thick, sticky dough - you may not need all the milk.
• Roll a small amount of dough in your hands to make a ball, about the size of a ping-pong ball. Place onto your prepared baking sheets and repeat with the rest of the dough, making 12 balls in total.
• Using a floured finger, poke a hole into the top of each bun, gently pressing right down.
• Spoon a small amount of jam into these holes - using a small teaspoon and adding a little water to your jam beforehand will make this step easier.
• Bake in your pre-heated oven for around 15 minutes until they have a nice golden colour.
• Allow to cool a little on the baking sheets before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

RASPBERRY BUNS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200C Fan
• Lightly grease a baking tray
• Place the flour, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Add the cubes of butter and rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips to form a breadcrumb like mixture.
• Using a wooden spoon stir in the beaten egg and mix until a soft dough is formed.
• Using your hands make balls of equal size from the dough mixture. Press a hole into the middle of each ball with a finger, put in a little jam (about ½ tsp) and pull the dough over the jam to close up the hole.
• Slightly flatten each ball as you place them onto the baking tray leaving a little space apart for them to rise and brush with the milk.
• Bake in the centre of oven for 10 - 15 minutes until cooked.
• Place the buns on a wire rack and allow to cool completely to room temperature.
• Store your raspberry buns in an airtight container and consume within 3 - 4 days.

JAM BUNS

Steps:

• pre-heat oven to 170C/fan 150C/gas 5
• seive flour, Rub in margarine until it resembles breadcrumbs, add sugar
• add the milk to the mixture, little by little until it is a soft but not too wet dough.
• place the dough onto a floured surface and knead lightly until completely smooth
• Roll out dough to about 0.75 cms thick, cut into round ( 12cms in diameter, a glass can be used for this)
• place a teaspoon of jam on to each one.
• Damp edges of dough and fold them inwards to cover the jam. Put buns onto a greased tray, joined side down, they do spread to twice the size so leave plenty of room between each one,
• Bake in a fairly hot oven for 15 - 20 mins
• cool on wire rack
• enjoy!

COCONUT & RASPBERRY CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with deep paper cases or a 15-hole bun tin with cake cases. Tip all the cake ingredients except the raspberries into a bowl and beat for 1-2 mins until light and fluffy. Gently fold in the raspberries.
• Divide the mixture between the cases and bake for 18-20 mins (add a couple of extra mins for deep cases), until golden brown and firm to the touch. Leave to cool.
• Beat together the icing sugar, butter and raspberry coulis to make a light, fluffy icing. Spoon or pipe onto the cakes and sprinkle with coconut.