Hot Cross Buns - found any good ones?

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I'm sitting here eating a Sainsburys St Clemens & Honey hot cross bun and it's sublime.

What are your recommendations?

I'm not telling you the actual best place to go because then the bakery will run out before I get there. I bought loads on Wednesday and they are now all mysteriously gone.

But I will give you a clue - go to a real bakery that doesn't use industrialised processes to make pappy air-inflated bread but prides itself on bread that contains nothing but flour, water and yeast. They will do excellent HCBs

It may be controversial, but the Co-op chilli hot cross bun is delicious!

Homemade

Marks & Spencer's blueberry hot cross buns.

Morrisons lemon drizzle.

Marks luxury ones

Another vote for M&S blueberry buns. Elite.

Sainsburys did some gorgeous choc orange ones, I ordered online but they weren't in the usual packaging, they were in the bakery style packing and they were HUGE, like twice the height of their other ones! Haven't seen them online since!

Gails

Chilli, wow, not heard of that!

I'm thinking there are too many hot cross buns for me to try in one season. I should have started earlier .

Tesco’s finest St Clement
Aldi or Lidl chilli
M&S caramel was more like a pudding but delicious

Any non-buggered about ones are fine for me.

So not the pack of ‘lemon and white chocolate’ ones I picked up in a hurry the other day! IMO white chocolate is the work of Satan anyway.

I did try one, but the rest will be going out for the birds.

Ooooo do the co-op do chilli cheese ones? Been looking everywhere for some, they were in all shops a couple of years ago and none this year.

Cant buy them here so homemade.

I don't like the usual HCB (sultanas - urgh) but can confirm I've tried aldi white choc and raspberry (white choc was absent so not great), biscoff (ok), marks caramel (very nice) and finally marks triple chocolate which are the absolute best 😋

Waitrose Belgian (?) Dark chocolate . Can't tell you exactly what they're called because we've eaten them all.

M&S. But only the traditional ones. All these weird flavoured ones sound horrible.

At DD’s recently there was the remains of a pack of hot chilli HCBs or similar, picked up by mistake by DD’s MiL.

Truly horrible. Most of them went in the food waste bin. We’d have put them out for the birds, only we thought hot chilli wouldn’t agree with them.

I do thoroughly enjoy hot chilli in its rightful place, but oh dear…

I love the M&S Apple ones or their cheese ones. I've never been a HCB fan until discovering these a few years ago and will buy the apple ones especially whenever I see them.

M & S used to do chilli ones but not for a few years. The co-op ones are amazing!

Tesco finest Red Leicester ones

Waitrose white chocolate and lemon. Yum! Also their apple ones are gorgeous.

I must thank you OP, for writing "I'm sitting..." instead of the ubiquitous "I'm sat..." (Eternal pedant. Sorry!) Enjoy your lovely bun.

Gail's - fab-U-lush

M&S luxury.
But I've a kilo of Paul Hollywood's recipe on its second prove at the moment. I always followed Delia's recipe (as I tend to for all traditional bakey classics) but PH's we decided were better.
I don't want any newfangled varieties.

I usually make them with a bun dough recipe from an old Jane Grigson recipe book, but this year I'm going to experiment and do hot cross scones. (Mostly because I'm short for time and cba to prove the dough.)