with Anette Larsson
I hope you have already tried my original cinnamon bun recipe. Here is a new twist on that - to bake the cinnamon buns in a cake pan and therefore get a totally different experience with the buns. They get a bit bigger but still very soft and creamy. Buns in a bun! Try it! [...]
Pavlova is one of my favorites. This ballerina dessert (named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova) has a crisp crust made of meringue and a soft, light inside made of a lemon curd and topped with some whipped cream and fresh raspberries and blueberries. It's really simple to bake and if you haven't finished it [...]
Today we have really nice and warm Spring weather in Florida (read Swedish Summer weather) which made me bake a typical Swedish Summer dessert - "Smulpaj" which can be translated as crumble pie. But it's not so heavy as an American dessert pie. The crumbles are made from oat, flour, sugar and butter which is [...]
Tomato bread is a perfect match to a fresh green salad or your barbecue favourites. Tomato and oregano makes it remind me about pizza, but in bread form. Try it! Ingredients (2 loaves): 1 can whole tomatoes 1/5 cup water 1 pack dry yeast 2 tsp salt 1/2 tbs olive oil 1 tsp dried oregano [...]
A crusty baguette is something I just love. It's perfect for your family picnic, together with a tasty soup or just as a quick easy lunch. It's not so easy to find the crusty simple baguettes here where I live, but it's so easy to bake yourself. Try this recipe! Start in the evening and [...]
This is another typical kind of sweet pastry we eat when we enjoy a "fika" in Sweden. It's a sponge cake which is soft and light. This cardamom cake has a genuine taste of cardamom and I call it my mom's recipe, because my mom always has a cardamom cake ready for us when we [...]
Something I loved when I was a kid was the Swedish "chocolate ball". Butter and cocoa based chocolate ball rolled in coconut flakes or pearl sugar. This was also something I remember as the first thing my mom let me bake, because it's no bake sweets. Last week, when I went to Fla Juice and [...]
The Semla (or Fastelavnsbolle in Norway and Denmark) is a flour bun, flavoured with cardamom and filled with almond paste and whipped cream. If you have ever visit Sweden this time of the year, you might have seen "Semlor" in each and every café. It has become something of a carb-packed icon in Sweden. The [...]
I know I already mentioned that Love treats (Kärleksmums) is one of the most popular chocolate cake in Sweden. That's true. But do you know which chocolate cake, by far, that is #1? It's the Mud cake or "Kladdkaka" in Swedish. What makes this cake a success? Is that it's gooey. The cake will puff up as [...]
I know the American chocolate cookie is THE cookie. But if you would like to taste something else and something coming from Scandinavia, you should really try this Swedish chocolate cookie. It has a rich taste of chocolate and is chewy. The biggest difference from the the American cookies is maybe the shape. We cut [...]
Scandinavian Simple Eating 