Recipes
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Norwegian Success Tart (suksessterte)
This Norwegian celebratory tart is made year-round for special occasions, but it has found a special home on the Easter table. Simple, decadent, rich, and naturally gluten-free—this tart is truly incredible. With a hazelnut macaron base and a lovely vanilla custard spread on top with dark chocolate shavings, this will surely be your new favorite springtime bake.
Tahini Carrot Cake
I’m sharing three recipes for Easter. The first is my super delicious Tahini Carrot Cake. Carrot cake has always been one of my favorites, but I usually find it a bit too sweet. So, I gave it a savory twist. Tahini and olive oil add moisture and richness, lending a subtle, nutty, fruity undertone that balances the natural sweetness of the carrots. The result is a deeply flavorful, not-too-sweet carrot cake that just happens to be dairy-free. Frost it however you like—or leave it bare. It’s just as good either way. Perfect for spring and especially lovely on an Easter table.
Rye Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Inspired by the Nordic desserts that use rye flour, these cookies are nutty, earthy, butterscotchy, and have crispy edges and chewy centers. This is THE cookie recipe.
Lingonberry Vanilla Custard Buns
These Nordic buns are super fluffy, tender, and delicious. Lightly spiced with cardamom, filled with lingonberry jam, and baked with a dollop of homemade vanilla bean custard—these buns are truly the best you’ll ever have.
Cardamom Cloudberry Thumbprint Cookies
Of course, I had to create a Nordic-inspired Christmas treat! These moist and tender thumbprint cookies are infused with freshly ground cardamom, rolled in cardamom sugar, and filled with Swedish cloudberry preserves. This rare arctic berry tastes like vanilla-laced apricots. These are truly a one-of-a-kind Nordic-American treat!
Cookie Butter Puppy Chow
Try out this Midwestern classic that is now revamped with spiced cookie butter and creamy white chocolate.
Apple Cake (GF + DF)
Baking this apple cake truly feels like a piece of cake! It is super simple and easy to put together, and it is a tried-and-true crowd-pleaser. This cake is magnificent, and the gluten-free and dairy-free ingredients help make it that way.
Sweet Potato Marshmallow Scones
This is sweet potato casserole in scone form. Need I say more?
Nordic Mocha Latte Cupcakes
What makes these cupcakes “Nordic”? A healthy amount of cardamom and cinnamon, of course! They are marbled with a little chocolate for the “mocha” flavor, piped with decadent espresso buttercream, and dusted with cocoa powder. These are indulgent, fairly easy to throw together, and a fun twist on Nordic flavors.
Norwegian Cinnamon Sun Buns (solboller)
These buns truly embody all that sunshine brings—comfort, light, warmth, and coziness. The sweet dough is enriched with cardamom, rolled out and spread with butter and a cinnamon-sugar mixture, and baked with a dollop of homemade vanilla custard.
Norwegian Vanilla Custard Coconut Buns (skoleboller)
This classic Norwegian pastry can now be made in the comfort of your own home! Skoleboller are soft and tender cardamom buns, and they get baked with homemade vanilla custard, glazed, and patted with shredded coconut. These are my absolute favorite things to bake and eat!
Almond Olive Oil Cake with Homemade Fig Jam
Use up those in-season figs by making a simple homemade fig jam and pair it with this perfectly moist and tender almond olive oil cake. This is one of my favorites!
Wild Blueberry and Lemon Shortbread Mascarpone Ice Cream
This mascarpone ice cream layered with a wild blueberry compote and gluten-free lemon shortbread cookie pieces brings a sophisticated and complex flavor profile to the table. This is inspired by my favorite dessert—a fresh piece of Maine blueberry pie.
Cardamom Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake
This cake is gluten-free, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free—but you could never tell. Ready in 30 minutes, mixed in 1 bowl, and loaded with a complex flavor profile—there is nothing not to like about this cake.
Vegan Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread Muffins
This delectable treat is perfect for breakfast or as a snack, and you won’t even be able to tell that they are vegan.
Gooey Cardamom Rolls
Pillowy rolls with a wonderfully spiced filling—a fun twist on a classic cinnamon roll.