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…
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Danish Fedtebrød – Coconut Cookie Slices with 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 recipes down the back of a shelf the other day. The recipes were printed on thin magazine paper, A5 in size and very faded so…
Neapolitan Marzipan Chocolates
Neapolitan Marzipan Chocolates I have a confession, I am addicted to marzipan as well as chocolate! So when I was asked to come up with an idea for an edible gift for Christmas that a child could help with, my mind immediately turned to marzipan. As a child I would make marzipan balls dipped in…
Kransekage Mummies
Having never celebrated Halloween as a child (as it was just something our American cousins did) when I had my own children I soon made up for this void. Indeed our front window gets turned into a Halloween grotto every year and until recently both of my children went out trick or treating, now it’s…
20 Fab Recipe Highlights for my 3rd Anniversary
I can’t believe that my blog is 3 years old today. I seem to have come such a long way since I started. When I posted my first recipe it was a very relaxed affair and I even over cooked my soup as I’d left it on the hob whilst on the school run –…
Risalamande (Danish Rice Pudding) with Cherry Sauce
Risalamande has been served on Christmas Eve in Denmark since around 1900. As I am half Danish I remember always feeling quite lucky as a child to have two Christmas celebrations! The first was on Christmas Eve where we had a traditional Danish meal usually with goose or duck and Risalamand followed by singing Danish…
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) Every tin of Danish Butter Cookies has Danish Vanilla Wreaths (Vanille Kranse) in it and my mother used to make these cookies every Christmas using a special star shaped disc on her meat mincer. She’d wind the handle and out would come little strips of dough that she would curl…
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…
