Poor Mr. Piglet spent the morning baking Hot Cross buns, but when they were cooked, they resembled Hot ROCK buns (especially as I never added the cross). We are not sure what happened, whether it was the integral flour, yeast, or the erythritol sugar that never activated the yeast. But they didn’t rise and were like cannon balls. Solid and tasted floury. Gutted. On a positive note, I told him to think of all the calories we have saved. Ho hum …
These are some he made in the past using the same recipe, and they were delicious
Have you tried to make Hot Cross buns?
Piglet in Portugal 
I have shared more than a few cooking efforts that went sideways, sometimes for reason you never figure out, right? Thanks for sharing, and based on how much you cook, this is obviously a quirk – as you said, something that didn’t do what it was supposed to do!
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What a disappointment! But even accomplished home cooks have their disasters. I hate to admit that it puts me in a very bad mood to have to dump food in the trashcan. But sometime it’s necessary. No, I’ve never tried to make hot cross buns. Not really a Franco-American thing. Same with fruitcake.
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