First of all, Norwegian Hot Cross Buns don’t exist for anyone else. Knowing this was Ash Wednesday, I thought of a special breakfast as John and I walked to the creek. I could make a quick version of the buns before David got up. Well, I was wrong on many counts. Hot Cross Buns are English, and they should be served on Good Friday, not Ash Wednesday. I called my creation Norwegian, because I used cardamom in the dough. Cardamom is featured in many Norwegian baked goods, especially Christmas cookies. I earned another error mark for the wrong season of the year. My last mistake was thinking David wouldn’t be awake early on his day off. He came in the kitchen as I was rolling out the dough.
Despite all these missteps early in the day, we enjoyed our yeast buns that included raisins, almonds, cardamom, and vanilla icing. There was a duet of vocal resistance when I said I’d freeze the leftovers for Good Friday. I guess when you mess up all the cultural rules, you might as well eat up your mistakes in a matter of days.
Mehrling Muse 
Sounds wonderful and Good Friday HCB’s sounds great too. May I please have to recipe, pretty please? I have a recipe given by a Swedish friend, for cardamom bread, if you’d like it I’ll send it too you.
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I threw things together for the buns, but I think I can remember what I used. Yes, I’d love to have the recipe for cardamom bread. Thank you.
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You do not have mistakes when you Bake. You just have bad information. Keep up the great work and keep people around you Happy, . . . . .
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Thanks! I heard another solution for covering mistakes. If you make something that fails, make up a crazy name for it when people ask what it is.
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Great idea.
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Those sound like they would be good anytime!
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With family and friends I would find it amazing that you had any leftover to freeze!
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There were only three of us eating a late breakfast, so there was no time to share. The recipe made 24 buns.
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Why that’s only 8 apiece! 🙂
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LOL! Probably next time I should make the buns tiny so that we could comfortably eat eight at a sitting.
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Bread of any kind is my down fall.
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We are tempted by bread, too.
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So good ! Pictures please, Anne.
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The buns were not particularly pretty, so I didn’t take a picture. They should have had a cross on top made of icing, but there wasn’t enough time to do that.
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Pancakes and Bacon at home yesterday, 0700 ashes this AM and a restaurant for scrapple and Spinach omelet after, C O L D!!!
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We substituted waffles for pancakes yesterday because we just bought a new waffle machine. We got our ashes at the 7 pm service, though Nathaniel went to church near his college at 7:30 this morning. I’d love to taste good scrapple. Ordered it once in a restaurant and took it home for the cat. Cat wouldn’t eat it, either. Hope you can warm up soon. It was 17F when we walked this morning.
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We always had them on Good Friday for breakfast too. It was something sweet to look forward to and in Canada we had a four-day holiday so we could all assemble for breakfast.
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Eat up all the mistakes! Jolly good idea Anne! Nothing like a warm hot cross bun lathered with butter 😀
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We are going to compound our errors and eat the rest of the buns before Good Friday.
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I hope you’ll feature recipes one of these days Anne!
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Many times I throw things together based on several recipes. This keeps life exciting, but it isn’t well-documented.
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They sound delicious Anne.
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I am not the world’s best baker, but I have become excellent at improvising. Let us thank God for freezers together. Heehee.
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I hadn’t thought of praising God for freezers, but why not! I’m with you.
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Whatever the season you can’t go wrong with these buns. Of course you had to eat them.
😊 .
miriam
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Hope you saved some for me..:)
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How soon can you get here? We’re having the buns Sunday morning.
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Lol
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you are quite a baker! and full of wit, as always!
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Healthy!
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