Hot X Buns

I'm going to have to have a real hot x bun this year, and blow the tummyache afterwards, if the gluten free ones are vile. I love them. REALLY love them - but refused always to buy them or make them other than during Easter week. I shall make some, just one batch of 12, as usual.

Rose thank you for the gf info! We don't have a Waitrose but I'll go to M&S.

Went to M&S today and bought two packs of hot cross buns for £2.50 I bought one normal pack and one which has stem ginger in as well, and they were extremely yummy.

I saw the stem ginger ones advertised, so when my DD1 brought me some home-made hot cross buns today, I chopped stem ginger up and spread it over the butter. They were gorgeous!

I had a stem ginger one this morning. They are scrummy!

My husband is travelling a lot for work at the moment and hot cross buns are his staple 'emergency' food. He always keeps a pack or two in the car and eats them straight from the pack with no butter. Sometimes he arrives home and realises that he's eaten a whole pack in the car!

We are fortunate, we have a proper bakery in our village. I intend to buy a dozen of their HCB tomorrow, half for DD, who we will be visiting, the rest to be popped into the oven first thing on Friday for us - and that will be the end of HCB until next Easter, I will, of course, be buying their spicy fruit buns that taste exactly the same for the next 52 weeks.

A bakery I know does the real deal in HCBs. They are only sold in Holy Week as they should be. The dilemma I have is that I am trying to stick to a low carb diet and those HCBs are not the small kind.

Traditional always. Making mine now - make them too early and they're gone in an instant and you're baking again!

I agree rosesare red. We had some of the Tesco Finest ones and they were very dry - only fit for toasting really. Must try the M&S ones.

Love HCBs and eat them all year round, but only the traditional ones, not the 'fancy' ones. Sainsbury's 'Taste the Difference' are pretty yummy.

Many years ago I got up early on Good Friday and realised I had forgotten to buy hot cross buns. I always eat them for on Good Friday so I found a recipe and having all the ingredients I made my own. They were delicious but I have never been able to make them as nice since. I have often tried to make them for one of my GS as he likes them all year round. Today I made some and they were just okay.

The Tesco gluten free finest were certainly a bit dry. It's made me start looking through gluten-free recipes in tinternet all morning.

I love hot cross buns, preferably from Asda because theirs are the squishiest. I used to freeze some so we can have them later, but now we just buy the. When I was younger, we had them as part of the Easter celebrations. Now Easter is more to do with church celebrations and eggs and hot cross buns are just one of the delicious, but commercial seasons of the year.