I taste test Aldi's new range of Hot Cross Buns for Easter

Lancashire Post

With Aldi having released a new range of hot cross buns featuring a spectrum of different flavours, I decided to head down to my local store to pick some up and do a taste test so I can let you know which are worth trying this Easter...

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00:00Hi my name is Jack Marshall I'm a digital food and drink reporter and

00:04welcome to a little bit of a special video today which the eagle-eyed viewers

00:08amongst you might have noticed that is going to be essentially based on hot

00:12cross buns. Now we're getting to the time of year where hot cross buns are all

00:16de rigueur, everyone's grabbing them, it's the one time of year where you can

00:20properly indulge in them and not feel too guilty, Easter's just around the

00:23corner, your Easter eggs are to come, we've got all that to that kind of

00:27chocolate-based excitement to come but right now it's all about hot cross buns and

00:32Aldi have recently released a huge, as you can see, range of hot cross buns, they

00:36range from everything from the classic luxury fruity ones as I've got here, you

00:41know, absolute classics, extra raisins, extra fruit, everything like that, to a

00:45lot more out there ones such as these banoffee ones, excuse me I've already dug

00:50into these now to try, banoffee ones and white chocolate and raspberry ones which

00:54are a little bit different, we've got rhubarb and custard which I'm very

00:58curious to try and then we've got their version, Aldi's version of Nutella which is

01:01called Nutoka, they've got a Nutoka flavoured one as well so like you can see I

01:06headed down to Aldi, I grabbed myself some of these, I thought I'd do a bit of a

01:09taste test, let you know which are my favourites, which are worth buying,

01:12which are a bit gimmicky and taste a bit rubbish, I've got my tea ready so that I'm

01:17not feeling too claggy, what more is there to say, let's crack on and try some

01:20hot cross buns, right so the first one we're trying is the banoffee hot cross

01:25buns, I have had one of these already, it just piqued my interest too much that as

01:28soon as I bought these and I knew I was gonna do this review today, last night

01:31they were sat in the cupboard and they were speaking to me so I thought I'm

01:33gonna have one of those with a cup of tea as a bit of a midnight snack, first

01:37things first, they are quite, they're quite dense, now I know hot cross buns are kind

01:41of strangely dense for what you kind of feel they should be, but these ones

01:44because they've kind of got, they've got that banoffee, banana, almost like

01:48banana bread, heavy to the heaviness to them, they've got them fudge pieces in

01:51them as well, they are quite dense but yeah like I say I've had a bash at these

01:55already but I'll have another taste test on camera, now the thing which really I

02:02need to say about these and excuse me for talking with my mouth full, but the

02:06banana flavour isn't overwhelming, that's the thing which I was most worried about

02:12with these is that you get a really artificial banana flavour from them

02:15which would be really off-putting, artificial banana flavour is awful, it

02:19tastes plasticky, it tastes weird, it tastes too sweet, it's too much, these have got quite a nice

02:23understated kind of flavour to them and then you've got the sweetness of the caramel as

02:26well so these are a bit of a hit for me, really like them, there's two more I'm

02:30gonna have to fight my partner and my brother if he's coming round to try some

02:33yeah these are mine, hands-off, banoffee, hit for me, right so second one we've got

02:39here is white chocolate and raspberry hot cross buns, much lighter than the

02:44banoffee, much sweeter smelling, you can smell almost the raspberry coming

02:50through, it almost smells like jam, it's so sweet, it's got a bit of a pink

02:54flavour, pink hue to it as well, a bit of colouring on there so

02:57gonna dive in and have a bash, first time I've tried these, very sweet but this is

03:09where a bit of salted butter really comes in nicely because then you've got

03:12the sweet being offset by the saltiness, that works, that tastes almost like it's

03:17got jam on it already but nice hint of the raspberry, that's

03:23properly lingering as well, yeah that's quite nice, that's definitely one for the

03:28sweet tooth fans, yeah very nice that, very different, very unique but I think

03:34they've made it work with the sweetness and the kind of jammy flavour to it all

03:38right on to number three of five and this time we've got the Nutoka Nutella

03:43flavoured ones which are described as chocolatey hot cross buns with a nutty

03:47flavour so they're really leaving that hazelnut Nutella kind of vibe, not as

03:53dense as I thought it might be, chocolate chips kind of in the dough which as I

03:57was getting out of the toaster burnt my finger so word of warning to

04:03anyone there, the melted chocolate will go on your fingers and hurt you a little

04:06bit but yeah curious to see how dense and how chocolatey this is and see if it

04:10works because it could be quite overpowering but let's have a bash

04:18that works quite well, it's not too much, the temptation there could be to pack it

04:26with the chocolate but because it is like a chocolate hazelnut spread you do

04:30get the nuttiness as well, it's not overwhelming, the flavour doesn't really

04:35linger though that's a little a little disappointing you'd want kind of like

04:40that richness to kind of linger a bit more but those are okay if you're a

04:44chocolate fan those are ones for you right next one now this is probably the

04:48one I'm most excited to try because it's unlike anything I think which I've come

04:52across before and it's rhubarb and custard flavoured hot cross buns now I

04:57don't know how this is gonna work I don't know what the overwhelming flavour

05:00is gonna be I can see there's definitely bits of rhubarb in there so

05:04yeah I'm really curious to try this so I'm excited let's dig straight in I'll

05:09go for the bottom bit

05:16I'll be honest that just tastes like a regular hot cross bun maybe a slightly

05:22different sweetness to it like raisins to rhubarb but I think it's a hint of

05:29sweetness which probably is a custard but yeah not really getting much from

05:34that I'm gonna try the top

05:41that tastes like a regular hot cross bun maybe it's my underwhelming undeveloped

05:47palate but that tastes like a pretty standard communal garden hot cross bun

05:52if I was given that and not told it was rhubarb and custard I wouldn't be like

05:56that's a rhubarb and custard flavoured one like you would with the other ones

05:59we've tried so far so that's delicious it's nice but it just tastes like a

06:03standard hot cross bun last hot cross bun and obviously we've got to finish

06:08with a classic fruity specially selected hot cross bun now the first thing I

06:13noticed when I got this out the packet was just how like the smell was just

06:16iconic I think that the extra smell that the other ones didn't have was almost

06:20like that orange peel zestiness to it it just immediately reminds me like

06:25childhood cross hot cross buns it's classic for a reason so I'm excited to

06:30try this one I've got a sneaky suspicion this is gonna be my favorite it's a

06:33classic for a reason like we said so yeah excited to try this one it's the

06:43best one it just is it's got that nice balance between being understated the

06:51spices the cloves the peel from citrus fruits the sultanas it's just delicious

06:58I think all the other not gimmicky but the other kind of unconventional flavors

07:05have things going for them but the all-round package that this one brings

07:09is just it's unmatched it's hard to kind of replicate this kind of classic nature

07:14with something else like the other ones are trying to imitate it whilst doing

07:18something slightly different but this one's just it's classic for a reason so

07:22yeah thanks for watching guys I appreciate you taking the time to come

07:25through and watch our review of Aldi's newest range of hot cross buns yeah try

07:31them out for yourself let us know if you prefer the other ones if you're a

07:34bonafide person if you love the chocolate if you if you can really taste

07:37the rhubarb and custard in the one that we tried previously which I couldn't

07:41really differentiate from kind of like a more basic one but yeah let us know what

07:45you think apart from that thanks for watching have a happy Easter cheers

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