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Good Friday Is a Good Day For Hot Cross Buns

The other day geeksugar was telling me how her mom had just dropped off a delicious batch of fresh hot cross buns as part of her family's annual Easter celebration.

The other day geeksugar was telling me how her mom had just dropped off a delicious batch of fresh hot cross buns as part of her family's annual Easter celebration. Later that afternoon, I realized that today, Good Friday (which is known within the Christian religion as the Day of the Cross and is always the Friday before Easter), is actually National Hot Cross Buns day. Hot cross buns take their name from the cross (they can be made several ways: with pastry cream, flour/water, glazed rice paper, or cuts made into the dough before heating) that sits on top of the yeast buns. These breakfast treats have a spicy sweet flavor and are studded with raisins or currants and are generally associated with Easter. To whip up a batch, read more