Hot cross buns.

[WildRosie]

Do you have traditional or one of the modern variants? I'm not a big fan but I used to buy the Belgian chocolate variety from Morrison's - excellent toasted and buttered but appalling calorie content.

Are they any good cold or do they have to be toasted or heated ? What are they like with toppings like jam or peanut butter ?

I really like the m and s cheese and marmite ones. They shouldn’t be called hot cross buns though. Too far from the originals!

The Waitrose apple ones are amazing! I accidentally ate 3 in a row yesterday. Whole, without butter.

Is Simnel cake still an Easter tradition ? I've never tried it myself.

Nice with cheese. Haven’t seen a simnel cake in years.

Yes - we have some this year. I’m a big marzipan fan so always make sure of stollen at Christmas and simnel cake at Easter!

(That was in reply to “is simnel cake still a thing!”)

Marks and Spencer don't seem to be doing their chilli cheese ones this year and I can't forgive them for it

I love them all, toasted or untoasted. I tend to buy the ordinary fruit ones as the chocolate ones tend to be much more calorific (tesco used to do a chocolate orange one but haven't seen it in my store this year)

All about the traditional ones here. Toasted with lots of butter and a bit of salt on top (don't buy salted butter normally so add it on these).

In reply to the simnel cake question, I made one today...

And hot cross buns, I like trad fruit style, toasted and plenty of butter 😋

Thanks @Crazycatlady202020 and @IchBinAnnaOfCleves I will try m&s gluten free ones

Our local Italian cfe/deli make their own. 80p each, only available at Easter. Fantastic and a yearly treat. Full of spices and fruit.

The Simnel cake looks excellent. I suppose the dried fruit and spices elements of HCBs are healthy enough. Not sure about fructose or fat content though.

The rhubarb ones from Aldi are nice too

I've bought some 'extremely chocolatey' HCBs from M&S this morning. I might try one later.