Apple and sultana buns

Comforting buns for cold days

Apple and sultana buns

SERVES

10

PEOPLE

PREP TIME

240

MINUTES

COOKING TIME

20

MINUTES

Ingredients

  • 370mls of butter milk

  • 120mls of light olive oil

  • 1 egg, lightly beaten

  • 2 tsp of vanilla extract

  • 50g of light muscovado sugar

  • 30g of wheatgerm

  • 195g of flour

  • 160g of granola

  • 30g of golden sultanas

  • 30g of medjool dates, destoned and finely chopped

  • 120g of grated apple, excess juice squeezed out

  • 12 slices of apple

Method

  1. Mix the buttermilk, oil, egg and vanilla together.

  2. Stir the sugar, wheat germ, flour and granola together.

  3. Combine the two mixtures along with the grated apple, sultanas and dates. Place into the fridge for at least three hours or preferably overnight to soak.

  4. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and place 12 paper cases into a muffin tin.

  5. Spoon the batter into your prepared bun tin and lay a slice of apple across the top of each one.

  6. Bake for about twenty minutes or until a skewer comes out clean from the center of one of the buns. Once cool enough to handle place onto a wire rack to cool completely.