Home Sweet Home Bakealong 25: Chocolate Hazelnut Buns

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Somewhere under the icing there’s a bun

Like Chelsea buns only with nuts and cream cheese icing according to what shall henceforth be known as the hummingbird equation:

Normal recipe + nuts + extra icing  = hummingbird recipe

Pretty yum. Could happily have had it without the icing. Next week we continue the nut run with cinnamon pecan twists.

Chocolate Hazelnut Buns
From Home Sweet Home by the Hummingbird Bakery

For the dough
300m lukewarm milk
25g caster sugar
1 1/2tsp dried active yeast [I used one 7g sachet of quick dried yeast]
500g strong white flour
1tsp salt
85g unsalted butter, cubed [or use salted and omit the salt above]

For the filling
50g unsalted butter, softened
100g caster sugar [I used soft brown as I though it would be nicer]
100g finely chopped hazelnuts [I used mixed chopped nuts]
25g cocoa powder
1 egg, beaten

For the glaze [I suggest halving this]
50g unsalted butter, sofetned
300g icing sugar
125g full fat cream cheese

One 10inch cake tin or 2x 8 inch

Join Beckie and me in our Epic 100 part bakealong. I’m also adding this to CookBlogShare