Recipes
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Brown Butter Swedish Shrimp Salad
This traditional Swedish shrimp salad is one of my favorite things to make in the warmer months, because it is light and refreshing, yet satiating. This time, I spruced it up with a brown butter dressing to add richness, nuttiness, and depth. It is absolutely amazing, and I know this Scandinavian classic will also become a staple in your kitchen.
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.
Norwegian Salmon Cakes
Fish cakes are extremely popular in Norway, but they tend to use white fish instead of the incredible Norwegian salmon that they are known for. I decided to change that! These salmon cakes are loaded with dill, capers, and lemon juice and served with a briny cream cheese sauce to tie it all together. Do you like lox bagels? Then you will absolutely love these.
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!
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.
Norwegian Morning Rolls (rundstykker)
These rolls are very popular for breakfast in Norway and Denmark, and now you can experience a Nordic breakfast right at home. They are soft and pillowy, with a beautiful golden crust adorned with poppy seeds. They are best served with good butter, cheese, and jam.
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!
Gooey Cardamom Rolls
Pillowy rolls with a wonderfully spiced filling—a fun twist on a classic cinnamon roll.