Chocolate Buns Recipe

Ingredients:

1. 1/4 Teaspoonful of salt
2. 2 Envelopes of instant yeast
3. 1/4 Teaspoonful of extract cinnamon
4. 1/2 Cup of Cocoa
5. 4 Cups of flour
6. 1/3 Cup of sugar
7. 2 Tablespoonfuls of butter
8. 1 Egg
9. 1 Cup of very hot milk
10. 1/2 Cup of warm water (or as much as is needed to get a dough that can be handled easily)
11. 1 Cup of currents

Instruction:

• Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl
• Melt the butter.
• Beat the egg.
• Mix the butter, egg, milk and water to form a soft dough that can be easily handled.
• Knead the dough for about 1 minute.
• Turn onto molding board, roll into a square about an inch in thickness and sprinkle on one-half cup of the currants.
• Fold the sides to meet the center and then the bottom and top ends to center.
• Fold as at first, using another one-half cup currants.
• Cover the bowl with cling wrap and leave in a hot place to rise until it has doubled in size.
• Knock the dough down.
• Shape the dough into the required shape for your buns, place them on a greased baking tray, cover and let them rise again until doubled in size.
• Pre-heat the oven to 350oF . Bake fifteen to twenty minutes.
• As you take them from oven, brush the tops of your buns with the white of one egg beaten with one-half cup confectioners' sugar. Let them stand five minutes.
• Now they are ready to serve.