Traditional Risalamande (Danish Rice Pudding) with Cherry Sauce is a creamy and delicious rice pudding laced with sherry and almonds, 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 Personal…
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Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake (Gammeldags Æblekage)
Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake (Gammeldags Æblekage) comprises of layers of stewed apple & crushed oat cookies topped with whipped cream & grated dark chocolate. My easy twist on this traditional Danish dessert! Why I Developed Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake Today I’m sharing my delicious Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake (Gammeldags Æblekage) with you which despite the…
Rødgrød med Fløde (Danish Red Berry Compote with Cream)
Rødgrød med Fløde (Danish Red Berry Compote with Cream) a traditional dessert made with strawberries & flavoured with vanilla! Perfect for using up a glut of strawberries! 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…
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
Sponsored by Branston Ploughman’s Open Sandwich is a fusion of a British Ploughman’s lunch and a Danish open sandwich. A marriage of flavours that work incredibly well! 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…
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…