Kvæfjordkake: Norwegian “World’s Best Cake” Recipe
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Brown Butter Almond Cake with Pears
Autumn might just be the coziest time of the year. I love the slow descent into the new season and how the clear mornings of summer give way to the misty start of autumn days. This time of year I…
Lingonberry-Studded Almond Cake (Gluten Free)
If you had asked me in my youth to define Norwegian food, I would have listed off a number of almond-flavored desserts: towering kransekake wreath cakes served at weddings, layered birthday cakes draped in a sheet of marzipan, buttery fyrstekake…
Norwegian Apple Cake with Autumn Spices (Gluten-, Dairy-, and Egg-Free)
When the leaves begin to turn and the air becomes laced with a chill, I know that fall has finally arrived. It’s my favorite season, the one that brings back memories of crunching through fallen leaves as a child, picking…
Icelandic Happy Marriage Cake (Hjónabandssaela)
The thought of rhubarb takes me back to my grandparents’ garden, a place that surely was dwarfed by the farms that were their former landscape back in North Dakota yet seemed to me the most amazing sort of wonderland. Some…
My Favorite Kladdkaka (Swedish Fudgy Chocolate Cake)
Life is full of reasons to celebrate, I’m convinced of that. It’s so easy to get caught up in the movement and the swiftness of the everyday. Sometimes—as a friend put it the other day—the monotony. But I’m trying to…
A Perfected Scandinavian Swirled Tiger Cake
I’ve lost track of all the butter and sugar. I started writing about Scandinavian food seven years ago last month. I have no idea how many sticks of butter and cups of sugar I’ve whipped into cakes and cookies since then, but I’ve…
Lemon-Flecked Norwegian Sunshine Cake (Solskinnskake)
My earliest memory is of the sun shining diagonally through the eastern-facing window of my nursery room. The door swings open as my mom steps through. I see it all through crib-slat lines, the geometric triangles of light and the vertical pillars of…
Norwegian Success Tart (Suksessterte)
I think it’s time we bring back the recipe card. You know the ones I’m talking about, often with yellowing paper and the swooping script of someone held dear. I have a storage box full of hundreds that my grandma…
Norwegian Bløtkake with Strawberries and Cream
When it comes to cake, I know two things for sure: A mediocre one is barely worth eating, and Scandinavia–especially Norway–boasts some of the best in the world. Take the classic Norwegian birthday and celebration cake, bløtkake–which translates roughly to wet…
