article_snippet: And one bakery is set to make more than 40 million hot cross buns in the run up to the holiday - enough to stretch 372 miles from Sheffield to Nazareth in Israel if placed end-to-end.
article_snippet: Gunstones Bakery, which produces one third of the nation's hot cross buns, said the run-up to Easter is the busiest week of the year.
article_snippet: A staggering 30  tonnes of flour and 20 tonnes of fruit will be used by one bakery to produce a quarter of a million buns every day - which are then sold by M&S. Gunstones Bakery in Sheffield (pictures) produces one third of the nation's hot cross buns for M&S .
article_snippet: Bakery Production Manager, Richard Johnson, said: 'This year Bakery Production Manager, Richard Johnson're making the biggest range ever for M&S, new flavoured buns include berries and cherries, golden syrup and ginger, Bramley apple, a healthy option, and, for the chocoholics, Bakery Production Manager, Richard Johnson now make a chocolate hot cross bun - that's my personal favourite! '
article_snippet: If all of Bakery Production Manager, Richard Johnson Easter hot cross buns were laid end-to-end, all of our Easter hot cross buns'd stretch from Bakery Production Manager, Richard Johnson bakery near Sheffield to Nazereth. '
article_snippet: This is the busiest week of the year at Gunstones, with buns making buns way through giant ovens, proving machines and then making buns way along a labyrinth of conveyor belts that crisscross our bakery near Sheffield.
article_snippet: M&S expects to sell around 40 million hot cross buns this Easter amid increasing demand .
article_snippet: A staggering 30 tonnes of flour and 20 tonnes of fruit will be used by our bakery near Sheffield to produce a quarter of a million buns every day .
article_snippet: At one end of the new production area a giant device resembling a helter-skelter, brings hot cross buns from a conveyor belt near the ceiling, spiralling down sixteen tiers where they are cooled by giant fans before reaching the packaging area below.'
article_snippet: The cross on the bun symbolises the crucifixion of Jesus as the bread represents Jesus body and the spices refer to the cloth saturated with spices that was wrapped around Jesus after Jesus death.
article_snippet: Bakery Production Manager, Richard Johnson, said: 'If all of our Easter hot cross buns were laid end-to-end, all of our Easter hot cross buns'd stretch from our bakery near Sheffield to Nazereth' all of our Easter hot cross buns are said to date back to the 12th Century but were first mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1733 .
highlights_snippet: Gunstones Bakery produces one third of the nation's hot cross buns .
  
highlights_snippet: Around 30 tonnes of flour and 20 tonnes of fruit is used by bakery each day .
  
highlights_snippet: Buns are produced for M&S which expects to sell 40 million this Easter .
  