Years ago, everyone was obsessed with the Swedish concept of hygge, but this year, the world of Swedish desserts has taken the world by storm. Since we also follow the trends, we have prepared 3 recipes for you, which will make your afternoons delicious.
Even if summer is just around the corner and many people are already more active they practice, they feed themselves Hello and they attend many of treatments, which will hide stretch marks, cellulite and other "social irregularities", is easy hard to resist "sugar" – food for soul and body, which will not provide you with nutritional value, but will fill you with life energy.
Sometimes you just have to stop and break the rules. Breathe. Enjoy the moment, which will be good part of your soul. The art of living well is not as complicated as it seems - a comfortable seat, sunlight, fresh air, delicious Swedish desserts … is there anything to complain about? Well, it might not be nice to have to prepare them before you can switch off completely, but so be it baking is part of your art of the good life.
3 RECIPES FOR SWEDISH DESSERTS:
Swedish pastry with lemon and parsnip
Ingridients
- 1 whole and ¾ cups + 2 tablespoons flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons of baking powder
- 300 g parsnips (grated)
- 2 tablespoons of poppy seeds
- 3 lemons (squeezed + grated peel)
- ¾ cup of oil
- 7 spoons of yogurt
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- blueberries for garnish if desired
Preparation
Heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Place baking paper in the baking tray.
Combine sugar, flour and baking powder in a large bowl. Add grated parsnip, poppy seeds and lemon peel to the mass. Mix everything well. Add oil, yogurt and eggs. Pour the mass into the baking dish and bake it for 55 minutes.
While the cake is baking, combine the lemon juice and sugar to make the frosting, which you then pour over the cooled cake.
Swedish pancakes
Ingridients
- 1 whole and ¾ cup flour
- pinch of salt
- 1 whole and ¾ cup milk
- 6 tablespoons butter (melted)
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
- raspberry spread, honey, fresh raspberries and sugar to taste
Preparation
Combine the flour and salt in a large bowl. In a small bowl, combine the milk, butter, eggs and vanilla extract. Combine the liquid ingredients with the dry ingredients. Mix well. Cover the mass and let it rest overnight. The mass must be at room temperature before use.
Pancakes can be prepared in the form of a cake or "traditionally" rolled. Enrich them with your favorite accessories.
Swedish Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients for pastries
- 340 g of milk
- 640 g of flour
- 34 g of sugar
- 14 g of yeast
- ½ spoon of salt
- ½ tablespoon of cinnamon
- ½ tablespoon cardamom
Filling ingredients
- 128 g of butter
- 106 g of brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
- ½ tablespoon cardamom
- 1 egg, sugar as needed
Preparation
Heat the milk in a small pot (35 degrees Celsius). Combine the flour, sugar, yeast, salt, cinnamon and cardamom in the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix the ingredients for 15 seconds, then add the milk. Mix the ingredients for 3 minutes. Transfer the pastry to a greased bowl, cover it and let it rest for an hour.
During this time, you can make the filling - mix the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and cardamom in a large bowl. Flour a work surface and roll out the dough to form a 9 x 15 cm rectangle. Spread the filling evenly over the pastry (to the edges).
Fold the dough as if you were folding a letter to be scanned into a standard envelope. Cut the dough into 15 strips (cut along the short side of the dough). Roll each strip across the surface to form a spiral. Wrap the dough in a circle to form a circle. Repeat the process.
Cover the rolls and wait 30 minutes before baking. After the dough has risen, transfer it to an oven heated to 200 degrees Celsius.
