Easter Idea - Brown Sugar Cranberry Hot Cross Bun

Happy April Fool everyone. Hope you didn’t any heart attack joke. Easter is now officially 3 weeks to go which mean another holiday/ celebration time. Unfortunately I will need to dig my head into my book and study for exam at the end of April (at least I have more time to study while everyone going out for holiday). But that’s fine; I can still have my own mini Easter party with my family by having a huge Easter feast with my family.

Since the last Easter Idea of Yoghurt Panna Cotta in Easter chocolate Egg, I’m going to show you another popular Easter food which you can easily find in store or bakery - Hot Cross Bun. My dad use to get them when I was young but back then I didn’t appreciate the flavour of cinnamon and sultana as much and so do my mum. So I did a different version by substitute cinnamon and sultana with brown sugar and cranberry. I love the taste of brown sugar more than caster sugar as it has some slightly cane sugar aroma and also make the taste has more layers. And Cranberry has been quiet a popular dried  fruit in the past few years, I like it not as sweet as sultana and has a little bit sour taste as well.

Mon Petit Déjeuner - Pear Cranberry Almond Tart

Even since I start baking, Sunday become the most exciting day of the week. Which mean I get to try all sort of recipe I had in mind during the week made them and get my family to taste testing. Most of the times I will make savoury breakfast like big breakfast, Baked egg or open sandwich etc. But you know some day you just feel like something sweet for breakfast like pancake or Danish pastry. And this Sunday I was craving for tart. 

Mon Petit Déjeuner - Cranberry Lemon Muffin With Crumble Topping

Last night I felt so tired and didn’t want to bake anything too complicate which I usually call “Big Job” because it involves lot of washing or mixing. So I decide to make myself some breakfast/snack and bake some muffin.

l literally did not know the difference about muffin and cupcake, the only way I use to define then is cupcake involve lot more butter than muffin. Therefore I consider muffin is a healthier option of cupcake. So when I dig around my kitchen and search for ingredient, I found some frozen cranberry which I bought from Costco while ago and some lemon. At first I plan to use the frozen cranberry to make smoothie but they are so sour, so I left it in the freezer and didn’t touch it again. Why not make a muffin with cranberry? And I also add some Lemon zest to add on some aroma which is better and more natural than any other essence. 

At first I did not intend to add the crumble topping but then I feel like something crunchy on top of my muffin. I’m not sure about what other people like, but for me I think the best part of a muffin is the muffin top. You can also use the same crumble recipe to make dessert like apple crumble, also one of my favourite recipe with apple.