Gluten-Free Swedish Tea Cakes / Glutenfria Tekakor

A recipe for soft, delicious tea cakes found on koket.se

Finally a gluten-free variant of an old Swedish classic.
Many Swedes’ favorite cakes!

Swedish Thin Bread in the Frying Pan / Dalatunnbröd i Stekpanna

An old-fashioned bread recipe found on koket.se

Swedish Cardamom Cookies / Kardemummakakor

A recipe for Swedish Christmas cookies
found on svt.se

Peanut Toffees / Peanøttkarameller

A recipe for toffees thattastes both salt and sweet
found on nrk.no

Peanut toffees taste both salty and sweet in an unbeatable combination. If you got Golden Syrup, peanut butter and salty crackers, you have the most important ingredients in this recipe.

Christmas Ice Cream with Orrange Salad / Juleis med Appelsinsalat

A Danish desset temptation found on dansukker.dk

Enjoy the Christmas flavors in both the ice cream and the salad
– can be served as a delicious dessert already during advent.

Scandinavian Farmhouse Christmas Cookies / Bondekaker til Jul

Farmhouse Christmas cookies found on mills.no

These farmhouse cookies are flat and rectangular shaped small cakes with clearly visible pieces of almonds. The recipe came to Norway from Sweden after the WWII and we find it for the first time in Gyldendal’s large cookbook from 1989. The cakes are still popular both in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. This recipe gives about 80 cookies.

Danish Saffron Cake / Dansk Safrankage

Traditional Danish sponge smelling of saffron
found on dansukker.dk

Saffron has a central place in Scandinavian Christmas traditions, or the spice is used in larger cakes like here and in several traditional cookies.

Norwegian Hulda Cookies / Huldakaker

An old-fashioned cookie recipe found on mills.no

Hulda cookies are flat and round and made with a lot of spices, including cloves and cinnamon. Some decorate these cookies with half an almonds on top of each. A portion of this recipe gives about 50 cakes.

Salt Vanilla Toffees / Salte Vaniljekarameller

A sweets recipe found on nrk.no

Homemade Christmas sweets have long traditions in Scandinavia. Make the salty version in this recipe or give the toffees a taste of licorice with licorice powder. Or try it with cardamom for Christmas flavors, or use finely grated citrus peel.

Swedish Tea Cakes with Oatmeal / Svenska Tekakor med Havregryn

A Swedish kake recipe found on recept.nu

Berries in Syrup with Ice Cream / Bær i Lake med Is

A traditional Norwegian dessertrecipe found in “Desserter”
(Desserts) published by Hjemmets Kokebokklubb in 1980

Swedish Fryingpan Bread / Pannbröd

A fryingpan or griddle bread recipe found on koket.se

Fryingpan bread, or “stompa” as it is also called,
usually Swedish children’s favourite between meals snack.

Traditional Norwegian Thin Bread / Tynnbrød

A traditional Norwegian pan fried bread recipe found in
“Den Store Bakeboken” (The Big Baking Book)
published by Schibstedt in 1978

Here is an old recipe for thin bread that was common before people got stoves in theirhomes. Since it calls for baking in a frying pan, the recipe is of course also well suitable for camping cooking. The frying pan works just as well on the campfire as it does on the stovetop at home – Ted

Good Old Fashioned Norwegian Wort Cake / God Gammeldags Vørterkake

A traditional Norwegian baking recipe found on kiwi.no

The sediments from beer brewing was the start of the oldest
Norwegian sweet yeast baking. We have eaten  wort cakes
for over 300 years in Norway.

Norwegian wort beer is a non-alcoholic drink made from water, malt and hops and added carbonic acid. In principle, wort beer is beer that has not been through fermentation. In Norway, wort beer is typically dark, roughly looking like Guinness. Wort beer is brewed by Ringnes, Hansa and Aass today.

Wort beer contains some minerals, malt sugar and some b vitamins. Maltese sugar provides fast energy, and the beer is therefore good as a sport drink. The beer is dark, sweet and with a little taste of hops.

Pear Marmalade with Saffron and Chili / Pæremarmelade med Safran og Chili

An exiting way to preserve pears found on frukt.no

A yummy and slightly different marmalade with pear, saffron and chili. The marmalade goes great with  fried meat and it makes a delicious sandwich spread.