Or, indeed, when is the correct time to eat them? We've been busy ... According to tradition, hot cross buns should be eaten on Good Friday. Many believe that is because they are used to mark ...

We did too - so we went to seven different stores to find out. Tradition has it that you should eat hot cross buns on Good ... six-day shelf life. These buns felt much denser than the others.

“Let them go to waste, we put too much effort into making them ... achieving a featherlight texture that we prefer to eat our hot cross buns as is, without heating or toasting.

I don't want to have to spread too much butter on it to give it that desired level of moisture. For me, the Tesco hot cross buns ticked all of the boxes. The other three were pretty enjoyable ...