If Christmas starts in November when can you eat a hot cross bun?

I am with MissAdventure whenever and as often as possible

Traditionally at Easter, but these days you can buy them all year round!

Well when at home as a child not until it was Easter ? but I’m now an adult and I’ve already had hot cross buns and a crème egg lol

I eat them all year round. Had one yesterday. One of my favourites.

Religion interfering with food .. why! ? so I would eat hot cross buns all year round if on offer. Had two packets already.

We eat them all year round.

I only like the traditional ones

I can't ever remember my mum buying them.
I don't like the fruity and spicy ones though.
My favourite are M&S chocolate hot cross buns and I bought my first pack last week. I've ate two and there's two in my freezer.
Marmite and cheese flavour sound nice. I'll have to have a look.

We did a taste test last year between M&S, Waitrose and Co-op and the M&S ones were much moister and fruitier. The Waitrose ones were surprisingly dry but we only tested the apple ones. Fortunately we can trot down the road and buy the M&S ones in the BP garage ?

Thanks for all the info! I shall do some dedicated research. Anyone with more details of hotcross buns please post them. I do want to do a thorough job

Never permitted in our family until Good Friday, thinking of them got me through the sadness of the Good Friday service, and as soon as it was over we raced back to put the grill on and ate up to 5 each! They came out again on Easter Saturday, and Easter Sunday tea, with the Simnel cake. I love them, and would really enjoy one right now, but my upbringing doesn't let me!

BTW St Albans Abbey has the recipe for the original hot cross bun, served to the poor and pilgrims by the monks. They have reintroduced it, you can buy them in the cafe for about £1 each, much bigger than the shop ones. But I don't like them, they put spices like cardamom in, and when Mary Berry came to try one, she pulled an awful face!

TBH nowadays I prefer a toasted tea cake (good old Warburton’s, I don’t care for fancier ones) to a hot cross bun. Lighter and not so sweet.

Oh, I could just eat a toasted tea cake!
But I'm not going out in this storm

For most of the year we eat toasted tea cakes and then start eating hot cross buns around this time of year.

As a child we only ever had them on Good Friday. Usually for breakfast. I remember going very early with my father to the bakery to fetch them.
A major treat then - like the very occasional jam doughnut.

EkwaNimitee

I seem to eat them most of the year, I love them. I found some delicious vegan ones in M&S last week (though wouldn’t most sorts be vegan anyway?)

Some might have butter in them.

Good Friday but DH would eat them all year round if I let him

Definitely a taste and quality survey needs to be done, so I’ll join you in that trisher.

I never eat Hot Cross Buns before Good Friday. Always have one with a cup of coffee for breakfast on GF. In the days when my family were at home I used to make my own.

Hmm... good question. I made the best hot cross buns ever last year (they contained dates). Must do a recipe rummage.

Good Friday.

My neighbour volunteers at the food bank and we have been getting deliveries of hot cross buns off her for weeks so maybe people aren't buying them until Easter?

Yes, trisher, the cheese and Marmite ones are from M&S. I am a Marmite addict, so I love them.

Love that Witzend . I hadn't heard of cheese and marmite hot cross buns. I shall have to investigate. Are they M&S? I shall have to do more research and trials before Easter of course.

On a similar theme, I love this card - I’m saving it for an April birthday: