Hot cross buns from Glenelg’s Orange Spot win second prize at Australia’s Best Hot Cross Bun Competition
AN Adelaide baker reckons a secret ingredient has helped his hot cross buns make the nation’s top 2 in 2016: You won’t believe what the secret spice is.
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AN Adelaide baker reckons a simple, secret ingredient has helped his hot cross buns be recognised as the second best in Australia.
Black pepper is the unlikely spice that Orange Spot Bakery has to thank for its success in baking Australia’s second best hot cross buns.
The Glenelg bakery lost by just one point to Victoria’s Numurkah Bakery at the Australia’s Best Hot Cross Bun Competition.
It was held by the Baking Association of Australia.
Orange Spot owner and baker Nick Davey says he changes around the recipe slightly each year, this year adding more black pepper and not including orange peel.
Many other bakeries do not include black pepper at all in their hot cross buns.
“That’s one reason things aren’t as spicy as they used to be,” Mr Davey says.
“We’ve increased the amount of black pepper to give it a bit of a kick.”
Orange Spot Bakery, on Anzac Highway, last won the competition in 2009.
Edwardstown’s Kytons Bakery won in 2010.
About 75 bakeries compete in the competition.
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