Swedish Budapest roll — but is it Hungarian?
The Budapest roll is a classic at Swedish cafés. Here, it is known as Budapestbakelse, Budapestrulle, or Budapestlängd. A traditional version consists of a hazelnut meringue filled with whipped cream and preserved mandarin slices. Nowadays, some bakeries and bakers...
Swedish Almond Caramel Cake— Tosca cake (Toscakaka)
Passionate love, jealousy, desire, hatred, betrayal, and murder. Is that what leant its name to the Swedish Tosca cake? We’ll take a look at that soon. Because who can resist this Swedish almond caramel cake, known in Sweden as toscakaka? Well, not me anyway....
Swedish raspberry ribbons
These cookies have a wealth of names both in Swedish and in English. In Sweden, they are known as wienerstänger, syltsnittar, hallonsnittar, or skurna syltkakor. Some of the names I’ve encountered in English include Scandinavian raspberry ribbons, Swedish...
Swedish waffles — våfflor (no snow necessary)
Waffle-related accidents do happen. In 1943, an inspector in the regiment of Västerbotten was entrusted with 10,000 SEK in cash. During his weekend permission, he decided to keep the money safe in a metal box in the far back of a baking oven. Unfortunately, a group of...
Classic raspberry soup
Time for some childhood nostalgia: raspberry soup, or hallonkräm. My mother made tasty sweet soups of all kinds for our snack time — rhubarb, raspberry, apple — but sometimes, we kids would make the soups using a ready-made powder. And the commercials for ready-made...
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My name is Isabelle. Here at Swedish Spoon, you’ll find Swedish food history, tried-and-tested recipes, and a lot of obsessing over great butter. You can also expect some travel tips.