Sweet Treat Alert: Humble Bakery's Hot Cross Buns Are Back by the Pack — and with Ice Cream — for 2025
If you've always wanted to try hot cross buns and ice cream together, you've only got until the end of the Easter long weekend.
Easter, arguably one of the most delicious times of the year, really brings out all the goods from the many neighbourhood bakeries, chocolate shops and gelato stores in Australia. If you've been waiting until the actual Easter weekend arrives before you tuck in to a freshly baked hot cross bun, wait no more, the hour is nigh. One of those neighbourhood bakeries joining the festivities is a Sydney favourite, Humble Bakery.
Independent bakery-made buns are always better than the mass-produced store-bought variety, and these goodies are no exception. Freshly baked, fluffy, generously spiced and loaded with fruity flavour (specifically, ginger, cardamom, nutmeg, cinnamon, spices, dried fruits, dried apricot, orange peel and honey), this is what it's all about.
And no matter how you like your hot cross buns – neat, toasted, with or without butter – you can get them individually or in six or nine packs at all of Humble's Sydney stores for $5, $28 or $40, respectively.
While the buns themselves are available at Surry Hills, Kent Street and Circular Quay stores, there's a special edition that you'll only find in Surry Hills. Hot cross buns with butter? A classic. Hot cross buns with ice cream? It's controversial, but it sounds great on paper. Hot cross buns with salted butter ice cream? That's crazy enough that it just might work.
The Humble Hot Cross 'Ice Cream' Bun is made with CopperTree Farms naturally cultured butter, bringing a mix of sweet, salty and creamy that not only sounds delicious but just makes sense, and you can get one for just $12.
Now, the bad news, like Easter itself, these treats are limited time only, and you've got until Monday, April 21, to try them.
Humble Bakery is open at Shop 2, 50 Holt Street, Surry Hills; Shop 19, 16-20 Loftus Lane, Circular Quay; and Shop 1, 333 Kent Street, Sydney. The hot cross buns are available in-store or online until Monday, April 21.
Images by Caroline McCredie
