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