Prep tips: pumpkin pie spice is just a shortcut helper here, but you can just add cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to taste if you’d rather. If you don’t want the chocolate hint, just leave out the ...

We've scoured the shops to bring you the very best fun hot cross bun flavours of 2024, featuring absolute winners like chocolate orange, lemon drizzle and white chocolate and raspberry.

Slice the hot cross buns in half and butter each half with an even amount of the butter. Arrange the halved buns in a lightly greased 28 x 23cm baking tray and set aside.

Exceptional by ASDA 4 Tiramisu Hot Cross Buns (£1.43 for four, so 35.8p each) - Smell strongly of tiramisu, good amount of chocolate, nice soft bun, could have done with more coffee flavour. 3/5 ...

This Chocolate Hot Cross Bun pudding by the BBC, for example, looks astounding. There's also this beautiful-looking Hot Cross Bun & Butter Pudding, by the BBC's GoodFood. Drool.

Some may call chocolate hot-cross buns blasphemous but for sweet tooths they are a dream come true. Banjo’s spiced dough is filled with melted Cadbury chocolate and topped with a chocolate cross ...

Flavoured hot cross buns are becoming increasingly popular in the major supermarkets, too. Coles introduced chocolate hot cross buns in 2011 and apple and cinnamon buns three years ago.

The survey revealed Aussies are traditionalists at heart, with shoppers crowning Traditional Fruit as their favourite Hot Cross Bun flavour, followed closely by Apple and Cinnamon, and Chocolate ...

We'll be honest, these hot cross buns taste a little more like cakes than buns – but we're not mad about it. As self-confessed chocoholics, once toasted, the chocolate chips melt beautifully. We ...