Laminated yeast dough folded with cold butter, filled with almond remonce and a spoonful of raspberry preserves, baked into twelve square pastries and finished with icing and sliced almonds. The dough is made and chilled the day before, then rolled, filled and baked in the morning.
Homemade pizza with a simple uncooked tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, and basil, baked as hot as a home oven will go. Makes two 12-inch pizzas, enough for four.
Soft cardamom-scented yeast buns hollowed out and filled with almond paste and whipped cream, with the bun top set back on like a little hat and dusted with confectioners' sugar. Makes 12.
Soft yeasted buns rolled with a cinnamon-butter filling, baked until just set, brushed with syrup and finished with pearl sugar. This is the everyday Swedish fika bun, stickier and sweeter than the cardamom version.
A dense, dark sourdough loaf studded with whole rye kernels, baked in an ordinary loaf pan. This is the bread under every open sandwich in Denmark, sliced thin and topped with everything from liver pâté to pickled herring.
Soft, cardamom-scented yeast buns twisted into loose knots and topped with pearl sugar. The Swedish answer to the cinnamon roll, and the standard companion to coffee at fika.