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This chocolate beer cake doesn't contain nearly enough alcohol to get anyone drunk - even if you never drink beer, abhorring the taste as in my case, or even if you feed the cake in mushed form to your newborn daughter or son. You can eat this cake or foist it off onto others and simply go about your...

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 the start of the Christmas festivities, the celebration brings together old pagan and Christian traditions. Under the Julian calendar, which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC...

Having previously lived in two countries, England and Sweden, moving recently to my third, the Netherlands, I well appreciate that the commonly utilised units of measurement differ between countries and provide, therefore, considerable consternation when it comes to cooking in general, and baking in particular. I recently posted a recipe for a Swedish kladdkaka - a sticky chocolate cake...