Where to Find the Best Hot Cross Buns in Adelaide This Easter

While we will never say no to a Lindt bunny or a packet of Cadbury choccy eggs, hot cross buns are easily one of the greatest things about the Easter period, hands down. Whether you’re a spiced and fluffy traditionalist or into more modern variations, come Easter Sunday (and let’s be honest, the week leading to it) you’ll want your kitchen to be well-stocked with these delicious baked bundles of goodness.

Fortunately, many of Adelaide’s best bakeries are hot cross bun connoisseurs. Hot, buttery, rich and flavourful, the only bad thing about these treats is that they’re only around for a limited time each year – though that might also be a good thing!

To make this Easter the best yet, here’s where you’ll find the best hot cross buns in Adelaide.

Shadow Baking

A bakery formed by three Messina head chefs and home to some of Sydney’s most iconic and creative tarts and croissants, Shadow Baking has set up shop in its first interstate shop in Glenelg—just in time for Easter goodies! If you have your wits about you and get in quick, you can get your hands on some fancy (and delicious) hot cross scrolls—the glossy, limited edition scrolls are perfectly flaky, stuffed with vanilla custard and jazzed up with soaked fruit or dark chocolate. While you’re in store picking up a pack, you may want to check out the lineup of decadent goodies, for this is no ordinary bakery.

8/1 Colley Terrace, Glenelg

Perryman’s Artisan Bakery

The legends at Perryman’s Artisan Bakery have been busy behind the scenes, preparing their famous hot cross buns for the Easter season. Offering both the traditional (which is vegan) and choc-chip varieties, this North Adelaide bakery prides itself on the quality of their dough and their generously stuffed buns. The choc chip hot cross bun is loaded with a signature house blend of spices and velvety dark chocolate chunks – it’s any chocoholic’s dream.

54 Tynte Street, North Adelaide 

Jenny’s Bakery Pistachio Hot Cross Donut

Folks, this is not a drill. Jenny’s Bakery has risen to the occasion, elevating its iconic hot cross donut this year to the stuff of legend. Stuffing a spiced Belgian white chocolate donut with a dreamy, creamy pistachio spread, this treat will have you wishing you ordered six more. It’s fluffy yet dense, sweet yet with a little spice, and honestly, one of the best things about Easter. Grab one for yourself, or pick up a few to share and instantly become the favourite family member. Get ’em while they’re hot.

Available at Norwood & Eastwood.

Banana Boogie Bakery

These aren’t just good hot cross buns, Banana Boogie Bakery is known for baking some of the best hot cross buns in Australia! Crowned with the top honour by The Baking Association of Australia in 2023, you can expect sumptuous dough texture and the perfect ratio of fruit or chocolate chips when you treat yourself to a cheeky baker’s dozen. Grab these fantastic buns on your way to Belair National Park to have an Easter-themed picnic of dreams, or take them home to savour that award-winning flavour from the couch.

Sitchu tip: After going viral several years ago, Banana Boogie is once again whipping up their insane hot cross bun donuts. Filled with Bavarian custard and dusted with sugar, this is a wickedly moreish treat.

Shop 4/10 Main Road, Belair

The Village Baker

Every year, bakers across Adelaide go all out with their original take on the hot cross bun, and The Village Baker never fails to deliver some of the city’s finest. Available at both locations, expect soft interiors with a generous amount of fruity punch, the all-important sugar and spice, topped with a glorious glaze that makes these festive treats impossible to resist.

Shop 61 A and B Portrush Road, Glenside

Shop 4, 715 South Road, Black Forest

Dough

Glazed and baked to glistening perfection, Dough’s delightful HCBs are back at the Adelaide Central Market. Made in-house with love and passion, these are the perfect blend of sweet and spicy, best served toasted and with a generous lashing of butter, naturally. The sourdough buns are as traditional as they come, with a tried and tested recipe filled with fruit that adds a little extra sweetness in every bite. Get ’em while they’re hot!

Stall 45, 44-60 Gouger Street, Adelaide

Kytons Bakery

A bakery that Adelaide’s cafes and carb lovers swear by; Kytons Bakery is boxing up celebration-size trays of traditional, fruitless and our personal favourite, FruChoc hot cross buns. Taking home the award for Best Hot Cross Buns in South Australia in 2024, these buns are dense, sweet, and laced with their secret mix of Easter spices. These 100% vegan buns are made to be enjoyed with friends and family – if you don’t eat them all first. The standard half and full dozen packs are on offer as well as 21 and 54 bun trays that are perfect for sharing.

Sitchu tip: Pick up a pack of lamingtons while you’re at it, they’re award-winning for a reason.

15 Lindsay Avenue, Edwardstown, check their website for other stockists

Willmott’s Gastronomica

Willmott’s Gastronomica is a vibey café and delicatessen by day, and a refined, sophisticated wine and cocktail bar at night. During the daytime, you can find delicious traditional hot cross buns with a unique twist: they’re glazed with Pedro Ximenez sherry and served up with spiced honey butter…YUM!

36 Kensington Road, Rose Park

Dulwich Bakery

You won’t have to travel far to get your hands on one of these hot-crossed beauties. With bakeries sprinkled all over Adelaide, Dulwich Bakery has mastered its take on hot cross buns. In addition to the customary fruit, they’re also serving up fruitless, caramel and choc chips which are guaranteed to keep the whole family happy this Easter. Fluffy, sweet, and moreish, you will find it hard to stop at just one. Plus, 30% of the sales from these Easter treats go towards charities across the community, so you’re supporting a good cause.

Multiple locations across the city, see website for more details

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