Enjoy Food Lover’s Market's Easter extravaganza with oven-fresh hot cross buns

Food Lover’s Market, South Africa’s largest privately owned retailer, is gearing up for Easter with a selection of candies, chocolate and delicious hot cross buns – baked fresh and from scratch daily in in-house scratch bakeries across all its stores. 

Food Lover’s Market prides itself on its unique from-scratch bakery approach, which ensures freshness and taste. In contrast to the uniformity of mass production, the in-house bakeries provide a sensory experience for shoppers through the aroma of freshly baked goods. There is no denying the appeal of smelling and tasting freshly baked bread and sweet and savoury baked treats. Food Lover’s Market is renowned for its freshly baked artisanal goods in its theatre-of-food-style stores. This includes its hot cross buns, a seasonal delight which epitomises the spirit and tradition of the Easter holidays.

Crafted from time-honoured recipes and baked from scratch daily, these classic treats invite Food Lover’s Market shoppers to indulge. They are baked fresh using wholesome ingredients, free from preservatives and best enjoyed while still warm.

This year, the retailer offers these freshly made traditional and plain hot cross buns at R19,99 for a packet of six, and the chocolate hot cross buns at R21,99 a packet. Or buy any two pack for R39,00.

In addition to hot cross buns, Food Lover’s Market also has a Hoppery Hunt Bag, as well as a variety of Hoppery Easter products, including mallows, Easter eggs, chocolate bunnies, a cookie-making kit and a large Easter egg lolly – perfect for the hunt on Easter Sunday.

For those who end up buying more buns than they can eat before it goes stale, the Food Lover’s Market website has some innovative recipe ideas to enjoy leftover buns. An example is this new take on the traditional bread and butter pudding.

Create a special Easter this year with Food Lover's Market's delicious hot cross buns.

Bread and butter pudding 

Ingredients 

• 20 g butter, melted
• 6 x FLM chocolate hot cross buns
• 100 g marshmallows
• 250 ml (1 cup) milk
• 250 ml (1 cup) cream
• Three jumbo eggs
• 125 g caster sugar
• 10 ml (2 tsp) vanilla extract
• 50 g warm apricot jam
• icing sugar for dusting

Method

• Brush a 26cm x 17cm x 5cm baking dish thoroughly with melted butter.
• Slice the hot cross buns into 1-cm slices and butter lightly and evenly.
• Arrange the slices in neat, overlapping rows to cover the base of the baking dish completely and dot it with marshmallows.
• Mix the milk and cream in a large saucepan and heat until just warm – not boiling.
• Whisk the egg and sugar until light in colour, then stir in the vanilla essence.
• Combine with the warm milk, then strain into a jug.
• Pour gently over the hot cross bun slices.
• Put the baking dish in a roasting pan. Fill the roasting pan with up to 3/4 of the way with boiling water to make a bain-marie. Bake at 180°C for about 45 minutes until the pudding is just set.
• While the pudding is in the oven, prepare the apricot glaze by putting the jam in a small saucepan with a dash of water (about 15 ml or 1 tablespoon) over low heat.
• Stir until it is a smooth mixture, remove from the heat and set aside until needed.
• Remove the pudding from the oven and brush with the apricot glaze.
• Leave to cool for 10 minutes.
• Just before serving, dust with icing sugar.

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