Norwegians 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…
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Continue ReadingScandinavians really love using cardamom in baking, as you can see by how often cardamom makes an appearance in my baking recipes here. And while I do love a hint of cardamom in my school bread, cinnamon buns, and sun buns, I also love when cardamom gets to take center…
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Continue ReadingLast summer I spent a few days in Copenhagen on my way home from visiting Greenland, and of course I ate as many delicious Danish pastries and treats as I could. And after leaving Denmark, one Danish dessert that I couldn’t stop thinking about was their pandekager, which are super…
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Continue ReadingMy Aunt Hege and her family visited me in Bergen last week, which was the perfect occasion to bake another cake! I wanted to make something simple but super flavorful, so I decided to go for cardamom cake. Cardamom cake is especially popular in Sweden for fika, which is the…
