Available for $6.50 a six-pack, Master of Gingerbread also does white chocolate and cranberry hot cross buns for those wanting something a bit different.

Daily Bread has recalled a batch of hot cross buns over concerns they could contain glass. Branded as “Traditional Hot Cross Buns”, the products were sold at Farro Fresh throughout Auckland in ...

Hot cross buns have long heralded the start of Easter in the western world, with the marked cross on top a symbol of Christian faith — but they actually started as part of pagan rituals.

Traditionally eaten on Good Friday to commemorate the Crucifixion, hot cross buns, the spiced-sweet bread that’s dotted with currants and devilishly good with lashings of butter, are now a mainstay on ...

Hot cross buns aren’t just a sweet snack that appears around Easter. They carry centuries of storytelling in their dough. From ancient gods to modern supermarkets, these sticky spiced buns have ...

Hot cross buns aren’t just a sweet snack that appears around Easter. They carry centuries of storytelling in their dough. From ancient gods to modern supermarkets, these sticky spiced buns have ...

Sift 500 g cake wheat flour into a baking bowl and stir in 1 tsp salt, 5 Tbsp castor sugar and, once the first two have been stirred in, the 10 g of instant yeast.

Hot cross buns aren’t just a sweet snack that appears around Easter. They carry centuries of storytelling in their dough. From ancient gods to modern supermarkets, these sticky spiced buns have ...

I taste-tested hot cross buns from ASDA, Lidl, Aldi, Tesco and more to find the very best to enjoy this Easter weekend.

Hot cross buns were small cakes, slightly spiced, sometimes of a round shape, and sometimes long and tapering at both ends, but always marked on the top with an indentation in the form of a cross.

To make the dough, in a small microwave-safe bowl, stir the currants and bourbon. Microwave, uncovered, on high until warm, about 30 seconds, stirring once. Stir again, then set aside until plump ...

Good Friday and magic buns. By the 18th century, English street vendors sold "hot cross buns" on Good Friday. We even see an old rhyme about them in Poor Robin's Almanac in 1733, which says: Good ...