[1] The dough may be enriched (made with eggs, milk, and butter)[1][2] or simply an oblong bread roll.
[3] In some bakeries or recipes, iced buns are garnished with additional sweets or are decorated as ballet slippers or other shapes.
A "raspberry bun" contains a small amount of raspberry (or sometimes strawberry) jam filling, which oozes out when the bun is bitten; they have many variations in size and shape, and are sometimes coated in sprinkles or coconut.
An iced bun may be split after baking, then filled with flavoured whipped cream.
[7] Iced buns are popular in the United Kingdom.