WATCH Lanarkshire TikToker create 'ultimate Easter breakfast' using Aldi's giant hot cross bun

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Popular East Kilbride TikToker Jack Cooks has shown his 127k followers how to create the ultimate Easter breakfast – a Great British fry-up inside Aldi’s giant hot cross bun.

After research shows more than a quarter (26.6 per cent) of Brits see hot cross buns as breakfast food, the Lanarkshire TikToker went to work to create the giant hot cross bun breakfast stack.Piled high with sausage patties, crispy bacon, black pudding, beans and sunny side up fried eggs, the breakfast serving creates the perfect combination of sweet and salty, all served on the giant bun which weighs a whopping 600g and measures eight inches in diameter.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Anne Stone said: “Disgusting not for breakfast keep as is to go with a nice cuppa toasted and smothered with butter.”Heather agreed: "Hot cross wrong!"While Philip Dykes thinks the combo works: “Bacon in a hot cross bun is yumm.”As does Paul Underwood: "Sweet and Savoury is actually amaaaazing."But it’s not all sweet and savoury – TikToker Joe's Bakes has shown keen bakers how to create the ultimate Easter cake using the newest addition to Aldi’s range, the specially selected giant chocolate orange hot cross bun.