Happy Christmas / God Jul

I’ll be celebrating with family and friends for a few days now.
I’ll start posting again sometimes during next week – Ted

Norwegian Halfmoon Cookies / Halvmåner

A recipe for filled cookies found on mills.no

It should not be surprising that these cookies have a crescent shape. Punch out round cakes with a glass and then fold them. Fill the cookies with vanilla cream, jams or as here, with prune filling. The dough gives about 40 cookies.

Norwegian Oatmeal Dreams / Havredrømmer

A recipe for delicious small confectionery balls found on godt.no

A nice little treat for the Christmas candy dish. Try these delicious “confectioneries” with oatmeal and marzipan.

Safran Sponge Tasting of Christmas / Safransukkerbrød med Smak av Jul

A recipe for a juicy Christmasy sponge found on regal.no

A version of the classic sponge, with a little added Christmas taste of saffron, orange and almond. Perfect for coffee or a cup of tea, or why not a hot mug of gløgg to complete the taste of Christmas.

Norwegian Cloudberry Cream / Multekrem

A classic Christmas dessert found on tine.no

Lovely and easily prepared dessert for Christmas or New Year’s Eve. Should cloudberries be hard to come by where you live, raspberries or blackberries will make an equally delicious dessert.

Norwegian Coconut Wreaths/ Kokoskranser

A classic Christmas cookie recipe found on mills.no

Coconut wreaths taste like the name suggests of coconut. They are shaped like wreaths, and traditionally also have some grooves on the surface. To achieve this the dough should be run through a meat grinder with a star nozzle or a piping bag with a star opening . If you don’t have neither grinder nor piping bag, the dough can be rolled out to sausages with a thickness of your finger and then tie them together to wreaths. 1 serving in this recipe gives about. 40 cookies.

Hazelnut Truffles / Hasselnøttstrøfler

A classic sweet recipe found on jacobs.no

Hasselnut truffles taste delicious and is well suited for both
your Christmas coffee and for Christmas gifts.

Pjalt, Griddle Cakes from Røros in Norway / Pjalt fra Røros

Traditional griddle cakes found on nrk.no

Pjalt, traditional food from Røros are round cakes that you cook on a griddle or in a dry frying pan. They are similar to ‘sveler’ or thick lefse, but are made of dough you roll out and cut out cakes  around a small plate.

Christmasy Norwegian Meatballs / Julefine Kjøttboller

A recipe for spicy meatballs found on kiwi.no

Serve these meatballs as a separate dish or as a part
of many on the Christmas buffet or at the Christmas lunch!

Danish Spicy Teddy Cakes / Krydrede Bamsekager

Make these cakes with your kids, I found them at
 dansukker.dk

You will not only get sweet on these cakes.
They will also make you fond of teddy bears.

Norwgian Crispy Cinnamon Sticks / Sprø Kanelpinner

A recipr for crispy Christmas cakes found on meny.no

Simple and fast Christmas cakes with a great taste of cinnamon. These cakes are included as one of the seven kinds of Christmas cakes baked in many Norwegian families.

Swedish Cardamom Cookies / Kardemummakakor

A recipe for Swedish Christmas cookies
found on svt.se

French Gingerbread / Franske Pepperkaker

Classic Norwegian Christmas cookies although they
originally come from France found on tine.no

These are easy and quick made cookies to bake for Christmas. With their delicious spicy flavor, they are perfect for serving together with a delicious blue cheese or simply for dipping in the gløgg.

Norwegian Beet Salad / Rødbetsalat

A Norwegian Christmas buffet classic
found on norsktradisjonsmat.no

A Christmas classic for many Norwegians, but delicious all year long. Beets has been grown in Norway for a long time. Today we are almost self-sufficient with beets here. This recipe was submitted by Onsøy Associated Country Women to Norway’s Associated Country Women’s recipe relay in 2012.

Norwegian Blackthorn Liqueur / Slåpetornlikør

A classic liqeuer recipe found on norsktradisjonsmat.no

A lovely liqueur made by many for Christmas in Norway. This recipe was submitted by May Britt Bischof from Onsøy Associated Country Women. She writes that this is an old recipe from Onsøy, which is taken from the book “Drink from Østfold”, published by Østfold Associated Country Women.

The same recipe can be used with other types of berries such as blueberries, rowanberries, red currants and black currants – Ted