Gingerbread Ice Cream Sandwich

Whether dunking figures headfirst into hot coffee, laying waste to two-story family homes and rummaging for the fragments of icing and chocolate, or pressing half-imagined men and women together in indecent postures...

Swedish Lussekatter

Throughout Scandinavia and especially in Sweden, 13 December – right at the heart of advent – means the celebration of Lucia. One of the most relished dates in the Swedish calendar, marking...

Swedish Prinsesstårta

Little over a year ago, my partner and I celebrated her birthday in the company of others, and made for the occasion a princess cake: the delirious Swedish prinsesstårta. This was shortly before the dessert appeared...

Swedish Chokladbollar

The tasty chokladboll, infamously once – and alas occasionally still – known as the negerboll, the humble chocolate ball when translated into English, is one of the most popular of all Swedish...