Day o' baking, now with knitting goodness

Since Easter in the UK is a four-day weekend, I hosted a couple of friends from the Stitch and Bitch London group over for a brunch today. I happen to think brunch is the perfect meal to do some serious baking for - it's early enough for sweet breakfast breads, but late enough to include something more savory. I managed to be super resourceful and use a number of things I'd had in the fridge that needed to get eaten. I also managed to work my way through close to 2 dozen eggs in a weekend, and I didn't even do any Easter eggs!

So, here's the list of what I managed to whip up:

• Challah (egg bread) knots
• Hot cross buns
• Asparagus, roasted potato and goat cheese quiche
• Key lime mascarpone cheesecake with key lime curd

I'd never actually eaten a hot cross bun before, that I can recall, so I have nothing to compare them to. But they tasted yummy, so I'll call them a success. I'm extra pleased with the key lime cheesecake using the juice I brought back from California. It was (and I risk sacrilege in saying this) perhaps even better than key lime pie!