As a child growing up in central North Dakota in the 1980s, I was surrounded by Norwegian sweets: krumkake, spritz cookies, fattigman, rosettes, and of course, lefse, the potato-based flatbread spread ...

I have a wonderful client who frequently orders Norwegian specialties for her parents from SarahBakes, my cottage bakery business. Earlier this year, she shared her grandmother’s recipe for Norwegian ...

These flourless almond cookies are “sort of like French macarons,” explains cookbook author Jake Cohen, but “without the meringue, and much easier to throw together any time you want.” He learned the ...

Traditional Norwegian holiday baking includes making the sju slags, or seven kinds, of cookies, according to the book "Keeping Christmas" by Kathleen Stokker. Nyberg makes a mix of traditional ...

Every year, on Christmas Eve, my cousins and I sit around the kitchen table for dessert – yes, it's still cool to hang together at the "kids' table" when you're 27. In the holiday afterglow of the ...

In her cookbook “My Two Souths,” chef Asha Gomez added an intriguing twist to the classic chocolate cookie - Nutella. It was an innovative way to introduce nutty flavor to an otherwise straightforward ...

When winter is still in full swing and spring is a few weeks away, I need my sweets. I also like to buy a pretty flowering plant to lift the spirits. Maybe I should buy more flowering plants since ...