Homemade Crumpets & Honeycomb Butter
 
 
Delightful, simple homemade crumpets topped with unexpected honeycomb butter.
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Serves: 12 crumpets
Ingredients
For the crumpets:
  • 1 + ½ cups (225g) plain flour
  • ¾ cup (190ml) milk
  • ¾ cup (190ml) hot water
  • 1 + ½ tsp dried active yeast
  • 2 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • canola oil (or other neutral oil), to cook
For the butter:
  • ½ stick (55g) butter, soft
  • 1 oz (20g) honeycomb candy, smashed
Instructions
  1. Place the flour into a large mixing bowl and make a well in the centre. In a separate jug, combine the milk and hot water (the mix should be just warm).
  2. Pour the milk and water into the flour, and add in the remaining ingredients, then stir with a wooden spoon until completely combined. It should be have the texture of a thick batter.
  3. Cover the bowl with plastic and set aside to rise in a warm place for 1-2 hours, it should bubble up and grow to just under double in size.
  4. To cook the crumpets, heat a large, heavy-based frying pan over a low heat. Take as many 2.5 inch (7-8cm) metal, heatproof rings as will fit in the pan, and grease them very well with oil (I use a pastry brush).
  5. Lightly brush the pan with oil, and add in the rings allowing them to heat up also.
  6. Drop a heaped dessertspoon of the batter (don't stir it or knock it down, just scoop the batter out) and leave to cook over a low heat for about 8 minutes, or until browned on the bottom, and completely cooked through and dry on the top.
  7. Remove the metal rings with a pair of tongs, and then carefully flip each crumpet over, just to brown the tops for a few seconds.
  8. Continue, re-greasing the rings between each batch, until all the crumpets are cooked.
  9. To make the honeycomb butter, whip the butter until light and creamy, and then fold in the crushed honeycomb.
  10. Serve the hot crumpets, or leave them to cool and then toast them (my preferred method) and slather with honeycomb butter.
Recipe by The Sugar Hit at http://www.thesugarhit.com/2015/05/homemade-crumpets-honeycomb-butter.html