Christmas lights are beginning to pop up around Bergen, so this morning I decided I can start Christmas baking! I eased in with a simple Scandinavian classic: Danish pebernødder (peppernøtter in Norwegian and pepparnötter in Swedish). Pebernødder are tiny little ginger snap cookies spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, and pepper.…
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Continue ReadingWhile Danes might be most famous for their pastries, they also make so many great cakes. And then there’s one cake that brings the best of both: brunsviger. Brunsviger is a yeast based coffee cake that’s a bit of a cross between a cake and a Danish, topped with a…
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Continue ReadingYesterday I shared a recipe for Norwegian cardamom cookies, but I have a confession: those aren’t my favorite cardamom cookies. And now I have an embarrassing confession: my favorite cardamom cookies are actually Swedish. These sliced cardamom cookies are soft and fudgy with a hint of cinnamon and caramel. They…
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Continue ReadingNorwegians love to use cardamom in baking, especially in sweet buns like cinnamon buns, solskinsboller, and Norwegian school bread (skolebrød). But you’ll also see cardamom used sometimes in Norwegian cookies like krumkaker, or these simple cardamom butter cookies that I made over the weekend. These Norwegian cardamom cookies are basic…
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Continue ReadingÆbleskiver (also written as ebelskiver or ebleskiver in English) are spherical pancake-like snacks popular in Denmark, especially around Christmastime. They’re incredibly light and fluffy, usually sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with raspberry jam. We make them in Norway as well and call them munker, but they’re considered a bit…
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Continue ReadingI don’t know what your plans are this weekend, but if I may make a suggestion, I think you should bake a kanelstang! A traditional Danish kanelstang is a long cinnamon twist essentially made of a bunch of cinnamon rolls (kanelboller) that are connected on the bottom. You know how…
