We are finally starting to feel a change of the seasons on the coastside. Our Indian summer is over and for the past several weeks we’ve had several large storms come through. All the rain has been very refreshing and even cleansing in way. The temperatures are finally matching the right time of the year….
Category: Sunday Sweets
Vanilla Wafers
I found myself in a situation last week when making the Swedish Sugar Cake. I kind of did that thing you are not supposed to do and didn’t read through the recipe. So come time to make the cake I didn’t have any vanilla wafers on hand. Now for some reason I was being particularly…
Swedish Farmer Cookies {Bondkakor}
Some recipes truly do have a secret ingredient. Something that makes you stop and go “what is that?” Usually secret ingredients are along the lines of nutmeg, espresso powder, citrus zest, etc. But this little cookie has something a bit more unique than normal. Molasses. It is a by product of the sugar refining process….
Alexander’s Tarts {Alexanterintortut}
Alexander’s tarts… or another way to to look at them, iced raspberry pie crust sandwich tarts. According to Beatrice Ojakangas (author of the Great Scandinavian Baking Book) they are named from Czar Alexander the II or Russia who ruled over Finland in the eighteenth century. While they are easy to prepare, I think I would…
Danish Lace Cookies {Kniplingskager}
Sometimes there just isn’t much to say. I don’t have a story to go along with these cookies. There isn’t any interesting technique to talk about. I wanted to make these because I have yet to do any kind of thin light cookie. The oatmeal and butter combination sounded lovely as well. The result? A…
Icelandic Almond Rolls {Möndlusnúda}
I’m finding that I really enjoy making things that challenge me in some way or another. It can be through a new technique, ingredient, or plain old getting your hands dirty and using some ingenuity to get the desired result. The stuff I have been making lately hasn’t been doing that for me. While I…
Cherry Galette
Ever since I brought home the first cherries of the season I wanted to make a cherry galette. I didn’t jump right on it though as I knew the season was just beginning. I instead enjoyed the fruit just as they are. Then a couple weeks later I indulge in more cherries. Again the desire…
Norwegian Browned Butter Cookies {Drømmer I Ørkenens Sand}
This is the very first recipe I made from the Great Scandinavian Baking book. It is simple and contains the ever so heavenly browned butter. It took me a bit to actually make these cookies the first time around. At the time when I first started reading through this book I was really starting to…
Danish Vanilla Slices – {Vaniljesmåkager}
Sometimes life calls for a cookie. Not just any cookie but a simple cookie. Something a little sweet and if at all possible, right out of the oven. Vanilla slices are just that, vanilla slices. This isn’t a “knock your socks off best vanilla cookie” but instead a humble cookie with a hint of sugar…
Swedish Chocolate-Frosted Almond Bars – {Mazarinkakor}
These bars have a cookie like crust with a thin layer of sweet almond filling and a generous drizzle of chocolate. They remind me of little bit sized desserts served on a dessert table at some swanky party. It takes the familiar, a cookie crust, and then gives you a unique almond filling only then…
Lemon Wafer Cookies
These are an interesting little cookie. They definitely fall into the “I wasn’t exactly expecting that” category. Think more in the realm of cake like wafer instead of cookie. I’m still on the fence with these guys but figured I should share them with you because they had a pretty positive response. So these are…
Finnish Teaspoon Cookies
Have you ever made a cookie recipe expecting one thing and end up getting something completely different? That was the case with these cookies. While deciding what to make for Sunday Sweets I was torn between doing something familiar and doing something new. I’m glad I stepped out and went with the unknown. The result…
Not So Serendipitous 