Brand/Baker: Quality Bakers Hot Cross Buns.
Bought from New World Halswell.

Price: $2.99 for a pack of 8 ($0.37375 cents each)

Serving size: 60g.

Ingredients: Wheat and soy flour, water, fruit (13%) (sultanas and currants), yeast, sugar, gluten, spices, canola oil, salt, salt, emulsifiers (481, 471), acidity regulator  (263), vegetable gum (415).

Sugar per 100g = 17.1g
Total fat per 100g = 2.8g

Appearance: A tightly baked set of buns. Slightly floury texture on the top. Each bun is a different shape. Crosses are quite clear. Some fruit is visible from the outside. Overall fairly even, quite mainstream looking buns.
Our Ranking: 2.5 /5

Smell: At worst, like bread – no distinct fruit or spice smell. At best, a subtle smell that is not over-powering.
Our Ranking: 2.5/5

Amount of Fruit: Packet says 30% fruit consisting of sultanas and raisins. Could see plenty of big sultanas/raisins that tended to be clump together. However other buns in the pack contained very few fruit.
Our Ranking: 3/5

Size: Small
Our Ranking: 2/5

Taste: Surprisingly spicy given the lack of smell. In fact it kind of overpowered the taste of the fruit which just gave an additional texture and sweetness. The dough was dry and unappealing, basically tasted of spicy fruit bread.
Our Ranking: 2.5/5

Value for Money: 3/5

> > > Our Overall Rating:  2.5 out of a possible 5  < < <

Fairly plain buns. Easily forgotten. If we were looking to restock our bun supplies we would try something different.

Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Wendy Riley-Biddle
Filed under: Total Trivia