Chocolate hot cross buns

likelysuspect · 2026-02-14T14:31:42+00:00

Horrible Not even saved by quality butter and peanut butter

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ShodAndShadySenators · 15/02/2026 18:45

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 15/02/2026 09:35

Co Op. They do a wide variety of flavours (you have been warned).

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Thank you muchly, I fear an expedition is going to occur some time in the near future. We did have a Co-Op very near but it's been subject to one of those episodes of rapidly changing transitions where it doesn't know what it should be and is currently a Cost Cutter. (There was much discussion and heated debate about this in a typical small village style. I preferred the Co-Op myself, so officially disgruntled. I bet they don't have HCB in any format either.)

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 15/02/2026 15:19

TheIceBear · 15/02/2026 10:06

If you hate sultanas currents and raisins you basically hate hot cross buns !

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I like the taste of the spices in the buns. There's something about the texture of sultanas etc. that I don't like

VickyEadieofThigh · 15/02/2026 15:19

IckyIck · 14/02/2026 14:44

I think Iceland is great.

Chocolate hot cross buns are all kinds of wrong though and it's not even Lent yet.

Correct. Hot cross buns should be the traditional kind only and never mucked about with.

Coop ones are fabulous

Talipesmum · 15/02/2026 15:17

KnickerlessParsons · 15/02/2026 15:00

Does everyone toast their HCBs like I do, or do most people eat them “raw”?

Best way is to give them 5 mins in a hot oven so they’re warm but still soft inside. Split then lavishly butter them. But I only do it like this on Easter morning as it’s a bit of a faff.

Usually split them in half and toast them, then lavishly butter them (extra wide slot toaster to allow this to happen without disaster, and wooden toaster tongs to extract them).

But if I’m treating them as emergency snack to take out and about, I’ll butter them if I’ve got time and eat them cold, or just munch on it whole like a bun. Delicious all ways.

IckyIck · 15/02/2026 15:07

They need toasting for the butter to melt into them.

KnickerlessParsons · 15/02/2026 15:00

Does everyone toast their HCBs like I do, or do most people eat them “raw”?

TonTonMacoute · 15/02/2026 10:15

They all sound horrible TBH, I can't imagine chocolate bread!!

I just want an old fashioned spicy hot cross bun, not chocolate or any other flavour

GreenEyesIsBack · 15/02/2026 10:13

EnglishGirlApproximately · 14/02/2026 16:45

I still haven't forgiven M&S for discontinuing the Cheese & Marmite ones a few years ago Every year since I've tried every single alternative flavour in the hope of finding an alternative, it's been awful

I came to post this, the cheese ones with marmite spread on just aren't the same.

TheGoddessAthena · 15/02/2026 10:10

I like all the weird flavoured hot cross buns, except the cheese ones which are an abomination.

But I don't put butter or jam or anything else on them. I just eat them whole, like cake.

KnickerlessParsons · 15/02/2026 10:09

likelysuspect · 14/02/2026 14:46

So what you're telling me is that I have to eat all of this pack (because while I say they're horrible, I mean it is cake and it is chocolate so Im not saying that they cant be eaten), I have to eat this whole pack I think you said and then I have to go to M+S and buy some more and eat that whole pack as well.

I think thats what you said.

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You should probably try the Sainsbury’s HCBs too, just for thorough research.

TheIceBear · 15/02/2026 10:06

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 15/02/2026 10:00

I hate sultanas, raisins and currants so the more alternatives the better! It saves me picking the sultanas out of real hot cross buns!

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If you hate sultanas currents and raisins you basically hate hot cross buns !

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 15/02/2026 10:00

TheIceBear · 14/02/2026 20:03

They are basically hot cross buns for people who don’t like hot cross buns I think. That said the M&S salted caramel ones are quite nice.
I haven’t tried the cheese variety, there is just something so unappealing about the idea

I hate sultanas, raisins and currants so the more alternatives the better! It saves me picking the sultanas out of real hot cross buns!

Heyhelga · 15/02/2026 09:38

Nope, I don't stray away from a simple traditional hot cross bun. None of this chocolate, apple etc added nonsense.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 15/02/2026 09:35

ShodAndShadySenators · 14/02/2026 19:28

I can't see me hesitating a fraction of a second before "Whoops! They fell in my trolley".

I need to know the emporium where the cherry bakewell versions were found. It's imperative @Vroomfondleswaistcoat. You could save a life here...

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Co Op. They do a wide variety of flavours (you have been warned).

Bluemin · 14/02/2026 23:16

Toast them and put coffee ice cream in the middle to make an ice cream sandwich. Heaven.

user2848502016 · 14/02/2026 22:47

I got some Tesco finest ones because my youngest isn’t keen on dried fruit - they were shockingly bad

LadyCrustybread · 14/02/2026 22:42

I think all the weird flavours are pointless and just make an already slightly unhealthy food a sugar bomb. Like eating cake for breakfast/a snack. Just have a regular one!

FrozenFebruary · 14/02/2026 22:38

Alpacajigsaw · 14/02/2026 15:11

This!

all the others are an abomination. Rhubarb and custard indeed . 😡

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I like the Tesco 'extra fruut' ones best. Much more than M&S or Waitrose etc.

I like traditional ones, I haven't enjoyed any other 'flavours', not even the rhubarb & custard ones. I think I've trained myself out of even trying new flavors.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/02/2026 22:32

TheIceBear · 14/02/2026 20:03

They are basically hot cross buns for people who don’t like hot cross buns I think. That said the M&S salted caramel ones are quite nice.
I haven’t tried the cheese variety, there is just something so unappealing about the idea

I am not sure I can see the point in a cheese hot cross bun either, @TheIceBear - if I want something cheesy, I make cheese scones, and put far too much cheese in them so they lose all structural integrity and become cheese splats rather than scones - but they taste amazing if I do say so myself!

Snootsnoot · 14/02/2026 20:05

We had some amazing ones a week or so ago...I think they were M&S? Not really a hot cross bun in anything but shape, but very nice with butter.

MinnieMountain · 14/02/2026 20:04

@Therewerelions who the heck put chocolate in Welsh cakes? I need to know so I can boycott them. At least Welsh cakes are easy to make.

TheIceBear · 14/02/2026 20:03

They are basically hot cross buns for people who don’t like hot cross buns I think. That said the M&S salted caramel ones are quite nice.
I haven’t tried the cheese variety, there is just something so unappealing about the idea

pinkfondu · 14/02/2026 19:56

M&S and nothing added

OneFootAfterTheOther · 14/02/2026 19:55

Don’t like the chocolate ones but the cheese ones are delicious.