with Anette Larsson
This cake is a typical birthday cake in Scandinavia. You can also get it served as a dessert if you celebrate e.g. Midsummer in Sweden. I give this cake to my mom when we were celebrating her 70th birthday here in Florida. Ingredients (1 cake): Cake 3 organic eggs 1 cup granulated sugar 1 tsp [...]
The sun is back in Florida! It's so nice weather again after a couple of weeks with cold and gray (for being Florida) weather. Therefore, I decided to celebrate with Norwegian Sun buns today. This is how the Norwegians' do. When the dark winter time is over and the spring/summer is coming with the light, [...]
This is the most common and traditional bread in Denmark. It's also the base for the famous "Smørrebrød" or open sandwich. If you haven't tried it before, you might think when you see this bread; healthy but it doesn't taste that good. Please try it and I'm sure you will have a different opinion after. [...]
This vanilla custard is so delicious! I use it in cakes, buns and you can also serve it to just fresh berries in the summar. The recipe below is a quite big amount where I have used only half the recipe for filling a cake or buns. But I always make the whole amount and [...]
This Swedish traditional cake is called "Kärleksmums" which I chose to translate with Love treats but could also be Love cakes, Choco-coco squares or Love yums. 🙂 It may look like a chocolate brownie with chocolate icing and coconut flakes, but it is much lighter and fluffier than a brownie. Try it! Ingredients (approximately 24 [...]
In every classical café in Scandinavia you will always find Thumbprint cookies. We might not eat them so often any longer, but when you do, you remember how good they are. This cookie comes originally from Sweden. They are named Hallongrottor in Swedish, meaning “raspberry cave”! It's a buttery cookie with a shallow well in the middle [...]
The Swedish "Knäckebröd" (translated break bread) has a long history and we find the first traces of this crisp bread in Sweden around 500 AD. Originally, they were made round with a hole in the middle so that the breads could be stored for a long time, as they were threaded on long sticks hanging from [...]
After starting to bake my own hamburger rolls, I think it's difficult to buy ready rolls (if you're not in a really big hurry). I have tried different recipes but these brioche rolls are my favorite. Brioche rolls are perfect for burgers. They have a soft and delicious inside, and a harder outside which makes [...]
I’ve always had a soft spot for our Scandinavian cinnamon buns. In Swedish, we call them kanelbullar, in Danish kanelsnegle, and in Norwegian skillingsboller. No matter what you call them, the smell of warm cinnamon and butter is pure comfort. I still remember standing next to my mom in the kitchen, helping her roll out [...]
These bread buns are so easy to bake and they are delicious. You don't understand why you ever bought buns after eaten those fresh. 🙂 I baked them this week and served them with a dinner soup we had. Delicious! And they only need to ferment once. Ingredients (20 bread buns) 1 pack dry yeast [...]
Scandinavian Simple Eating 