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November 25th, 2009 | caitlin | Categories: The Dish
Tagged: Gluten Free, Gluten Free Calgary, Gluten Free Land of Nod Buns, Land of Nod Buns

Christmas is exactly a month away. That’s really not a lot of time to prepare for the awesomeness that is the Christmas Holiday. I’m a Holidork, and it’s kind of a big deal event to me.

One of the most important parts is making sure that I have suitable GF replacements for my former gluten filled holiday favourites. Last year my focus was on Nanaimo Bars. Now that, that problem has been solved by our fantastic friends at GF Patisserie; it’s time to focus on the next big item: Land of Nod Buns.

Wait; hold on, now that I say that, I should really double check that Nanaimo Bars are still on the list at GF Patisserie. GF Patisserie, if you’re reading this, your Nanaimo Bars are the beginning and end of my world. I love them and you so very very much. (Does sucking up usually help the desperate?!)

Okay since that’s covered; let’s move on to the Land of Nod Buns. If you’ve never heard of them before, you’ve never lived. Here is the gluten filled version of the recipe. These are the highlight of every Christmas breakfast. Elbows are thrown, glares are given and no one will ever politely give the last piece to a family member. Darwin rules our breakfast table – actually, Darwin rules our entire family dynamic.

So why am I telling you this? Because I need your superior skills to get me out of a jam. You see, Darwin has played a really cruel joke on me. On the one hand, I was graced with the art of logic and sarcasm. These are skills that will never fail you in the academic and commerce worlds. However, if it came down to a deserted island scenario I would lose. It would be game over, because I have ZERO culinary skills. I would starve to death. So, now I lean on my far superior readers to bail me out. I NEED gluten free Land of Nod Buns this year. This is a NEED people, not a want. That makes it that much more important to my survival.

That being said, I lay down a challenge at your feet. The reader who can provide me with the most accurate and user friendly GF Land of Nod Bun recipe will win not only my love and eternal affection, but also a fantastic prize.

So here are the challenge details should you choose to take it:

• All recipes need to be received by email (caitlin@glutasic.com) by December 15^th.
• All ingredients need to be readily available. (Fiancé and I are getting married on the 19^th, so I don’t have time to run all over the city looking for random goods)
• It must taste as close to the original as humanly possible.
• Using pre-baked bread to replace the frozen bread dough is not an option. These buns come out of the oven piping hot with a crust on the outside and squishy white bread on the inside. A bread pudding type substitute won’t work.
• Lactose Free submissions will be given extra points for effort. I’d rather avoid the unfortunate circumstance of having dairy with that many people in the room!

I think that’s all the rules I’ve got. But I reserve the right to add some later if need be. Once a winner is decided, I will post the recipe for all of you, and a wonderful prize will be sent to them. And by wonderful, I mean SUPER FANTASTIC.

Thank you in advance to all you wonderful people that are going to help me out with this.

HAPPY HOLIDAY’S!

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