Your guide to finding the best and unique hot cross buns across metro and regional Victoria
Looking for the perfect spiced bun to toast and enjoy with lashings of butter? We’ve rounded up the best hot cross buns from across Victoria.
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It’s that time of the year where hot cross buns fly off the shelves.
An important symbol of the Easter season, some like them with fruit and others prefer them without.
New flavours pop up every year so we have compiled a list of the very best buns across Victoria.
Millers Bread
116 Nepean Hwy, Dromana
9 Main Street, Mornington
The “hotties” have been flying out the door from this Mornington Peninsula bakery since February.
And this year Millers Bread has added a surprising twist to the traditional bun.
“Our non-fruit version is a little bit special,” baker Tyler Miller said.
“We’ve taken our traditional bun, which is part milk bun, part brioche and part (Japanese) Chūka Man and filled it with jam.
“It’s like a jam doughnut.”
The bakery, which sells hundreds of buns from its Dromana kitchen and Mornington cantina, also offers a traditional version packed with sultanas, currents, raisins and apricots.
“We also have a sourdough version which is made using leavened dough and has cranberries and dark chocolate.”
Mr Miller said all three buns could be eaten fresh or toasted, even those filled with jam.
“You can put the jam hottie in the oven and because it’s 35 per cent butter it becomes even softer as it warms,” he said.
“It end up like a hot jam doughnut, that hasn't been fried.”
Millers Bread Kitchen and Millers Cantina are open every day over Easter.
The Village Bakery
38 Grantham St, Brunswick
This bakery is serving up freshly baked brioche hot cross buns every day for the Easter period.
The establishment is a local favourite, with lunch time queues snaking out the door as people line up for a taste of the delectable treats.
The bakery offers both fruit and chocolate hot cross buns in packs of six, for $15 a box.
While they’re pricier than your supermarket hot cross buns, they’re baked by professional pastry chefs.
The bakery also sells a range of pies and other savoury meals, as well as a huge spread of pastries, cakes and more.
Connells Bakery
Wonthaggi, Bass Coast
Baked fresh, Connells hot cross buns are the classic fruit filled, fluffy bun everyone loves.
Over the Easter period you can drop by Connells in Wonthaggi for a bun and a coffee or just the bun.
But make sure you stock up before Easter, as the bakery will be closed.
These hot cross buns are the best in Bass Coast so don’t miss your chance to taste them.
Brumby’s Bakery
Epsom Village, 16-40 Howard Street, Epsom
Guess what’s pink and fluffy and here for Easter? It’s an Easter bun nearly as cute as the bunny himself, and quite different from the traditional fruit variety.
This raspberry and white chocolate flavoured Easter bun has a distinctive fragrance, smelling much like a jam doughnut.
It’s certainly a pretty addition to the feast table and if it’s too different for your tastes, the bakery also offers chocolate Easter buns, plain and fruit varieties.
The Basin Bakery
1313 Mountain Hwy, The Basin
The hot cross buns are so good at this popular bakery in the outer east, people are driving from across Melbourne to snap them up.
“Best hot cross buns I’ve ever had! Definitely recommend,” Paris said on the Knox Leader Facebook page, while Helen said she drove from Bayside to get her hands on the “delicious” treats.
The Basin Bakery was voted in the best bakery in Knox in a 2021 poll.
The hot cross buns at Huey’s Bakehouse in Scoresby Village also won the tick of approval from readers.
1816 Bakehouse, Ballarat
As the go-to bakery for many in Ballarat’s CBD, 1816 has residents’ Easter cravings covered.
Apprentice baker Tyler Prodanovic said the perfect bun was all about the right amount of mixed spiced.
“It’d definitely be how they’re mixed,” he said.
“We do the one sort here: it’s all sourdough hot cross buns.
“They’re fruit mixed through with honeywash on top.”
As for fruit’s inclusion, Mr Prodanovic replied: “Definitely”.
And he was happy for hot cross buns to be enjoyed outside of Easter.
“I think everyone enjoys them, so all year round wouldn’t be a problem,” he said.
Go Vita Warrnambool
155 Fairy St, Warrnambool
Go Vita Warrnambool is a health food store serving up your favourite foods.
The store offers organic, fresh and healthy hot cross buns to get people into that Easter spirit.
Be sure to get in quick, because orders are filling up for their delicious buns.
Hudaks Bakery, Mildura
848A Fifteenth St, Mildura
Hudaks Bakery in Mildura recently had their hot cross bun named the third-best bun in the country.
Store owner Andrew Whitney said that it comes down to the technique of the baker and the quality of local fruits that they source.
“I think it’s the skill and technique of the baker. Our bakers take a lot of pride in their work,” he said.
“As well the good quality fresh Sunraysia fruits that go into it.”
Mr Whitney said the bun named the third-best in the country was exactly the same bun customers could get in the store.
“We entered the exact same bun we make day in day out,” he said.
“The top three hot cross bun is what you are going to purchase when you come into our shop.”
Baker’s Delight, Biralle, Wodonga
Birallee Shopping Centre FF1, Melrose Dr, Wodonga
Wodonga’s Baker’s Delight is the go-to spot for everything baked!
With a wide range of treats, the bakery is known for “baking the same way for forty years”.
The bakers believe there's “no shortcut to fresh’ and are committed to “delighting”.
This Easter, you can find the traditional hot cross bun, choco chip, and apple cinnamon hot cross buns!
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