Hot Cross Buns

Hot cross buns are traditionally eaten during the forty days of Lent. These buns are delicious and they have a cross on top which reminds us of Christ’s Cross.

Leon Camilleri

A hot cross bun, or cross-bun, is a sweet, yeast-leavened, spiced bun made with currants or raisins, often with candied citrus fruit, marked with a cross on the top. The cross can be made in a variety of ways including: pastry, flour and water mixture, rice paper, icing or two intersecting cuts. They are traditionally eaten during Lent.

Anthea Kert

Hot cross buns are made in England. They are really popular in the Maltese Islands. Since hot cross buns are originally made in England, they like to eat their buns hot because the weather is really cold.

Daniel Azzopardi

The hot cross buns are very good to eat. You find them during Lent. The hot cross buns are brown and on them there is a yellow cross made from icing. The hot cross buns are very soft. They are very smooth too. They are bought single or in packets. People love to eat them. There are raisins inside them. I love them too.

Cherise Micallef

Hot cross buns are very popular in Malta. These are very similar to the English hot cross buns, usually small buns coated with honey. On top of the hot cross buns is a cross made of icing. The cross is a reminder of Christ’s Cross. Children and adults love to eat hot cross buns but Maltese hot cross buns are never really hot!

Juan Chircop

Before Easter, we eat hot cross buns. The buns have raisins inside and they are like bread. On top there is cross made from icing.

Martina Doublet

Hot Cross Buns are small buns. They are like bread but have raisins inside and a cross made of icing on top. The icing is usually white or yellow and it reminds us of Christ’s Cross. In England, people eat them hot but in Malta we do not eat them hot.

Anthea Falzon

Hot Cross Buns are round sweet buns with a cross on top. They are very nice and delicious to eat.

Dejean Celeste.