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Snack less and spread during the week

New year, new resolutions and I definitely need to slow down with snacking 😅. Home working for almost a full year and not able in loading off your stress with social engaging in a nice bar makes life so much challenging now!

More days are becoming in reaching out to comfort sweets which brings happiness for a moment but then when I look in the mirror…. hmmm, I think I must reduce some sweet treats.

Starting from February, only on Tue/Fri/Sat and only if I have hard craving for sweets.

Together, we can motivate each other and then we might have a better chance of succeeding. And because today is Tuesday, Johan is baking his 1st Swedish Semlor for our treating day 😋. If you bake or buy your sweets, try to get some baby versions so that you have the option to choose and eat a smaller piece.

Semla (plural Semlor) is a Swedish delicious pastry. The dough is kneaded with crushed cardamom seeds, the center is hollowed out for almond paste filling and topped with fresh cream.

Happy Fika and grab a nice coffee with it, enjoy!

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Swedish Finnish Sticks and Raspberry Caves

Don’t know why they call it Finish sticks but they are superlicious origin Swedish pastries. These cookies taste like butter cookies and are very simple to bake. With the same batch of dough I will bake Finnish sticks and will also make Raspberry Caves for some deli variation. If you prefer one type, then you can skip the other ingredients.

Baking time: 20-25min + 30min dough resting time, serves approx. 40-50 cookies

Ingredients & Tools

  • 200gr butter on room temperature
  • 1dl sugar or lesser
  • 1Tblsp vanilla sugar
  • 4,5dl all purpose flour
  • 1x egg
  • Optional: handful pearl sugar
  • Optional: handful crushed almond nuts or any that’s your favourite 
  • Optional: raspberry jam or any jam you like
  • Baking paper and baking tray
  • 1x big bowl
  • 1x baking brush
  • 1x teaspoon
  • 1x fork

What to do?

  1. Put all ingredients in one big bowl. Knead by hand or in a baking machine until its smoothly mixed. By hand it takes between10-15min. 
  2. Split the dough in 2x plastic bags eg sandwich bag and flatten the dough.
  4. Put the bags in the fridge for 30min.
  5. Pre-heat oven on 175°C at conventional heating (oven symbol stripe on top and bottom).
  6. Beat the egg in a small bowl with a fork to use as egg wash for later.
  7. Take the dough out of the fridge. Break a piece and make a ball with your hand palms.
  9. ————- Make Finnish Sticks ————-
  10. Roll the dough on finger thick size strings. 
  12. Cut stick pieces for about 4cm width.
  13. Brush a bit of egg wash over the stick pieces.
  14. Mix the sugar pearls and crushed nuts together (or use one of the two ingredients) and layer on the stick pieces.
  15. Put the sticks on the baking tray.
  16. ————- Make Raspberry Caves ————-
  17. Roll small balls for a cookie size and press a whole in the centre with your dumb.
  18. Scoop a bit jam with the teaspoon in the cookie centre.
  19. Egg wash is not needed here.
  20. Put the cookies on the baking tray.
  22. ————- Cookies in Oven ————-
  23. Bake for 9-10min in the middle of the oven.
  24. Cool off for at least 30min.  

Enjoy your coffee & tea time with your delicious home baked fluffy Swedish cookies 🙂

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