Aldi’s Giant Hot Cross Bun returns for Easter 2023 and it’s joined by a brand-new flavour: Specially Selected Giant Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Bun (£3.99, 550g).
Measuring seven inches in diameter, the deliciously supersized treat is packed with chocolate chips and candied orange peel, making the perfect shareable Easter treat. It will be joining Aldi’s original Giant Hot Cross Bun, which comes filled with dried raisins, candied orange peel and candied lemon peel.
The supermarket first launched the oversized Easter treat last year and caused a social media storm when Samantha Ramsdell, aka Woman with the World’s Biggest Mouth tried, and failed, to eat the bun whole in one.
This year, TikToker Jack Cooks has showed his 127k followers how to create the ultimate Easter breakfast – a Great British fry-up inside Aldi’s original Giant Hot Cross Bun (£3.99, 600g). Bunderful!
Piled high with sausage patties, crispy bacon, black pudding, beans and sunny side up fried eggs, the breakfast serving creates the perfect combination of sweet and salty. All served on Aldi’s Giant Hot Cross Bun, which weighs a whopping 600g and measures eight inches in diameter.
The 2023 twist on a British classic has caused mixed reactions on social media. Anne Stone said: “Disgusting not for breakfast keep as is to go with a nice cuppa toasted and smothered with butter”. Heather agreed: “Hot cross wrong” while Philip Dykes thinks the combo works: “Bacon in a hot cross bun is yumm” asdoes Paul Underwood: “Sweet and Savoury is actually amaaaazing”
But it’s not all sweet and savoury – TikToker Joe’s Bakes has shown keen bakers how to create the ultimate Easter Cake using the newest addition to Aldi’s range, the Specially Selected Giant Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Bun (£3.99, 550g). His 118k followers were impressed with the new whopping treat commenting: “That is a massive hot cross bun!”.
Joe’s Hot Cross Bun Cake recipe:
Ingredients (serves 6-8):
- Specially Selected Giant Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Bun (£3.99, 550g)
- 250g Cowbelle British Unsalted Butter (£1.99, 250g)
- 500g The Pantry Icing Sugar (£0.79, 500g)
- 4tbsp Cowbelle British Semi-skimmed Milk (£0.95, 1 pint)
- 1tsp Vanilla Extract
- 25g The Pantry Cocoa Powder (£1.49, 250g)
- Assortment of Food Colouring
For the centre/ to decorate:
- Dairyfine Mini Chocolate Eggs £0.99, 80g
- Moser Roth Office Bunnies £2.99, 140g
- Dairyfine Milk Chocolate Chicks/Bunnies/Lambs £1.99, 125g
Method:
To make the buttercream:
- Beat the butter until pale and fluffy
- Add half the icing sugar and beat to combine
- Add the second half of the icing sugar and beat until pale and fluffy
- Split the mixture in two
- Add cocoa powder to one half of the buttercream
- Split the remainder of the buttercream into four portions and add food colouring of your choice
For the cake:
- Cut the Giant Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Bun in half horizontally and core out the middle of each layer using a cookie cutter
- Spread the chocolate buttercream on the inside of each half, then sandwich them on top of each other
- Fill the cored out middle with Dairyfine Mini Chocolate Eggs, Moser Roth Office Bunnies and Dairyfine Milk Chocolate Lambs, before placing a section of the cored middle on top to hide the surprise
- Then, use the food colouring to create several buttercream colours
- Finally, decorate with some of the mini chocolate characters as you create a perfectly delicious Easter table centrepiece!
Shoppers looking to try Jack’s Giant Hot Cross Bun Breakfast Stack can follow his recipe below or on his TikTok:
Ingredients (serves 4):
- Specially Selected Giant Hot Cross Bun (£3.99, 600g)
- Oakhurst Smoked Streaky Bacon Rashers (£2.25, 300g)
- Ashfields Black Pudding Slices (£0.89, 227g)
- Oakhurst Breakfast Pork Patties (£1.89, 342g)
- Corale Baked Beans (£0.45, 410g)
- Specially Selected British Mixed Weight Golden Yolk Eggs (£1.99, 6 pack)
- Butter, for spreading
Method:
- Slice Aldi’s Giant Hot Cross Bun in half
- Toast both sides of the hot cross bun in a large frying pan – you may need to do this one half at a time!
- Fry the bacon, black pudding and sausage patties in a frying pan
- In the same pan, crack in two eggs to fry
- Cook the baked beans in a small pan
- Butter the hot cross bun
- Begin building your breakfast stack; on one slice of the hot cross bun add the sausage patties, bacon, black pudding, beans and eggs
- Close with the other hot cross bun slice, so it resembles a sandwich
- Cut into four and serve
Aldi’s Giant Hot Cross Buns are available in stores and via Click and Collect now, while stocks last.
