Over Easter, some of our favourite bakeries and patisseries are serving up delicious hot cross bun creations, ranging from traditional varieties to those loaded with sweet fillings. There’s even a hot cross cruffin for those who can’t go without their croissant fix.
Sprout
James Street essential service Sprout is bakes up fresh hot cross buns for Easter each year, made with a traditional recipe of fruit and a house spice mix. They’re perfect for toasting and slathering with butter, or just eating fresh. Plus, in previous years they have offered a hot cross bun wheel, made up of 30 fluffy buns baked together so can pull apart and share — but not before you take a pic to make your followers jealous.
📍76 James St, Fortitude Valley
Lune Croissanterie
This Easter, Lune has not just brought back their drool-worthy hot cross cruffin — for when you can’t choose between a regular hot cross bun and a croissant — filled with brown butter mousseline, studded with dried fruit, and finished off with a signature cross. They’ve taken it one step further with a choc hot cross cruffin, which is exactly as indulgent as it sounds: a cocoa choc-chip croissant pastry, filled with chocolate mousseline and topped with a cocoa cross.
📍15 Manning St, South Brisbane / Burnett Lane, shop 10/79 Adelaide St, Brisbane CBD
Darvella Patisserie
This Bulimba fave is doing things sweet and gooey when it comes to hot cross buns this year. Not only are they serving up freshly-baked traditional hot cross buns, but they’re kicking it up a notch on weekends, with decadent special flavours like Kinder Bueno and raspberry velvet. They’re bound to fly off the shelves so we recommend getting in early.
📍Shop 1/37 Oxford St, Bulimba
Jocelyn’s Provisions
Hot cross buns loaded with flavoured cream? Say less: we’ll take a box, thanks. These delicious creations are as warm and filling as they are delicious, with both a traditional flavour piped with a spiced crème patisserie, alongside a chocolate number filled with milk chocolate ganache. If you prefer the classic route, they also have regular — though no less delicious — buns studded with spiced fruit, or chunky dark and white choc chip, plus heaps of other Easter treats on their website.
📍Various locations
Doughcraft
Baking legends Doughcraft are here for all your hot cross bun needs. With both traditional and chocolate flavours to choose from, freshly baked every day, you really can’t go wrong. And, with My Kitchen Rules winners Simon Prest and Viviana Barile at the helm, their entire menu is more than worth a try. Come for dinner, stay for the hot cross buns!
📍181 Mary St, Brisbane CBD
Agnes Bakery
The indispensable Agnes Bakery has, of course, its own unique take on this Easter favourite, with the usual spiced buns filled with currants and raisins made from their incredible sourdough, whose slight tang balances the sweetness out perfectly.
Nodo
We didn’t forget about our gluten-free friends! Per usual, Nodo’s offerings are not just gluten-free but full of yumminess, and their hot cross buns even come in two swoon-worthy varietys: traditional or chocolate flavoured, one as taste as the other.
📍Various locations
Baker D. Chirico
Newly-opened Baker. D. Chirico has wasted no time getting in on the hot cross bun game, opting for a traditional option and a satisfyingly crunchy chocolate hazelnut version, both of them made with their signature sourdough.
📍18 Longland Street, Newstead
Banjo’s Bakery
Calling all chocaholics! Not only does Banjo’s Bakery offer traditional and chocolate hot cross buns, but it has taken things to the next level with a gourmet fruit version and its indulgent Double Choc Nutella Hot Cross Buns, which are loaded with choc chips, filled to the brim with a creamy Nutella filling and crowned with an extra dollop of the heavenly hazelnut spread for good measure.
📍Various locations