CHOICE reveals the best of the best hot cross buns
With Easter just a month away, it's time to start enjoying delicious hot cross buns while you can.
There's an overwhelming amount of choices and flavours to choose from (burger sauce hot cross buns, anyone?).
Luckily, consumer group CHOICE has taken the guesswork out of your Easter shopping by getting culinary experts to taste test 21 different varieties of hot cross buns.
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With a myriad of options, CHOICE has tested over 20 different hot cross buns to find the best of the best. Getty Images/iStockphoto
"Our expert panel taste tested over 20 products from traditional fruit and chocolate categories purchased from national supermarkets, Bakers Delight, and Costco," says CHOICE Editorial Director Marg Rafferty.
While there are a myriad of bizarre flavours hot cross buns come in these days, CHOICE stuck to the traditional fruit and chocolate hot cross buns for their survey.
The winner of the fruit hot cross bun taste test was the Woolworths Traditional Fruit Hot Cross Buns, which scored 75 per cent from CHOICE's expert panel.
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Woolworths Traditional Fruit Hot Cross Buns were crowned Australia's best scoring 75 per cent among CHOICE's expert panel. CHOICE
Coming in at a close second was Coles' Traditional Fruit Hot Cross Buns, scoring 72 per cent.
While both the Coles and Woolworths hot cross buns were equally priced at 67c per bun, taste testers found the Woolies iteration had a better crust, softness and toasted well.
Woolworths also clinched third place with their Luxurious Richly Fruited Hot Cross Buns, said to have a "pleasant fruitiness" to them.
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Aldi's Bakers Life Chocolate Hot Cross Buns won first place in the chocolate category. CHOICE
As for chocolate hot cross buns, Aldi took out number one with their Bakers Life Chocolate Hot Cross Buns, which only narrowly beat out the Community Co Chocolate Hot Cross Buns.
If you have a food intolerance, allergy or gastrointestinal issue, it shouldn't mean you go without on Easter.
In recent years, supermarkets have widened their baked goods variety to cater different dietary needs. With this in mind, CHOICE rated a number of gluten-free options and Coles' I'm Free From Gluten Wheat & Dairy Chocolate Hot Cross Buns was crowned the best gluten-free bun.
The Coles gluten-free buns are also dairy allergy friendly.
