The best hot cross buns recipe

There’s something inherently comforting about the smell of freshly baked hot cross buns come Easter. Perhaps it’s the nostalgic scent of rising dough, the festive aroma of warm spices, or even the sweet perfume of orange and sugar bubbling away atop a kitchen stove for the glaze.

Straight from the oven or lightly toasted, these fruit-studded hot cross buns are a Good Friday breakfast ritual, one dating back more than 700 years. But where to start… how do you make hot cross…