Traditional Risalamande (Dansih Rice Pudding) with Cherry Sauce is a creamy and delicious rice pudding laced with sherry and almonds and served with a sweet, warm cherry sauce. The History of Risalamande Risalamande finds it origins in the French Ris à l’amande and has been served on Christmas Eve in Denmark since around 1900. A…
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Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake (Gammeldags Æblekage) + video tutorial
Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake (Gammeldags Æblekage) Today I’m sharing my Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake (Gammeldags Æblekage) and step-by-step video tutorial with you. As autumn is just around the corner my mind wonders to apples and one of my favourite traditional apple desserts, Danish Apple Cake which I posted a few years ago. This is usually…
Rødgrød med Fløde (Danish Red Berry Compote with Cream)
Today I’m sharing Rødgrød med Fløde (Danish Red Berry Compote with Cream) although the literal translation is red groats with cream! This is a recipe I have been meaning to share with you for a very long time as it’s a dessert I grew up with and was always a firm favourite. Hence, when I…
Danish Fedtebrød – Coconut Cookie Slices with Rum Glaze
Traditional Danish Fedtebrød – Coconut Cookie Slices with Rum Glaze – beautifully short buttery cookies packed with desiccated coconut and topped with a rum glaze. I’m so excited to share these Danish Fedtebrød – Coconut Cookie Slices with Rum Glaze with you today! My mum found my Danish grandmother’s Saffir Mel (flour) collection of cookie…
Neapolitan Marzipan Chocolates
Neapolitan Marzipan Chocolates are the perfect festive gift for the marzipan lovers in your life! These home-made marzipan chocolates are so incredibly delicious, you’ll be swamped in compliments (if you can bare to part with them that is)! I have a confession, I am addicted to marzipan as well as chocolate! So when I…
Kransekage Mummies
Kransekage Mummies – a fusion of traditional Danish baking with Halloween! Kransekage Mummies are made with ground almonds and taste just like marzipan but baked and these have a delicious coating of dark chocolate underneath! Having never celebrated Halloween as a child (as it was just something our American cousins did), when I had my…
Ploughman’s Open Sandwich
Happy National Sandwich Day everyone! I had no idea there was such a day (3rd November) until the good people at Branston got in touch and asked me to create a sandwich in celebration of this yearly event! So taking inspiration from my Anglo/Danish roots I decided to do a mash up of a Ploughman’s…
Egg & Prawn Open Sandwich with Lemon Mayonnaise
Being half Danish I regularly put together Danish open sandwiches (smørrebrød) on traditional wholegrain rye bread but am aware it’s not to everyone’s taste. So when my mother told me about this particular Egg and Prawn open sandwich that she makes all the time, I thought it would be ideal to share during British Sandwich…
Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse)
Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) are traditional Danish butter cookies made with chopped almonds. Every tin of Danish Butter Cookies has Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) in it but homemade ones taste so much better. My mother used to make these cookies every Christmas using a special star shaped disc on her meat mincer. She’d…
Finsk Brød (Finnish Shortbread)
Finsk Brød (Finnish Shortbread) As a child not a Christmas went by without my Danish mum baking a whole array of traditional biscuits and cookies. Finsk Brød (Finnish Shortbread) is a recipe that she learned to make at school and no doubt her own mother would have made. This particular version comes straight out of…
