For the past 10 days I’ve been staying at an Airbnb outside of Sandnessjøen on the Helgeland coast in Northern Norway. When I arrived here my car struggled up the driveway that was covered in thick snow and ice, but now all of the snow has melted and I just spotted a few flowers! I guess spring is on its way. So I decided to bake some spring colored buns, and I thought these Norwegian mandelboller, or almond buns, topped with yellow vanilla custard would be such a pretty and tasty spring treat! These would also be lovely to make…
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Continue ReadingI’ve been in Sweden for the past week, and when I saw how lovely the kitchen was at the cabin I stayed at in Harads I knew I should bake something special. It was -30C (-22F) outside, so I definitely wanted something with warm winter spices. I decided to bake…
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Continue ReadingSome of the cutest Swedish Christmas cookies are schackrutor, or chessboard cookies. These are simple but tasty little cookies made with chocolate and vanilla flavored dough, layered to look like a chess or checkerboard. But more recently I’ve been seeing Swedes add two half circles to their checkerboard cookies to…
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Continue ReadingI recently shared a list of my favorite Christmas cookies with a friend and of course many on the list were Danish, because Denmark has the best treats. And I guess that makes sense, considering how much wealthier Denmark was than Norway before we found our oil. Denmark is a…
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Continue ReadingI was telling a friend about my favorite Scandinavian recipes and I realized that so many of them are Danish! Even my favorite Norwegian Christmas cookies are originally from Denmark. And so I was inspired to bake some more Danish Christmas cookies – this time finskbrød. Finskbrød means Finnish bread,…
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Continue ReadingYes, I’m here with another brown cheese dessert recipe! I’ve always wanted to make a recipe with Norwegian brown cheese and peanut butter, because American visitors often remark that our brown cheese tastes like peanut butter cheese. So when I found Reese’s Pieces peanut butter candies at my local Normal…