In addition to a unique Swedish baking recipe

Enjoy FIKA, a laid-back coffee culture, with the locals.

I'm Seorawa Do-hee, who are introducing Swedish and Nordic culture to Korea through various contents. Recently, interest in local cafe menus and lifestyles has been growing through Swedish brands such as IKEA (IKEA) and ARKET (ARKET). Together with Sara, a Swedish food expert, these days when it is difficult to travel abroad I would like to introduce you to Swedish baking style and culture by making local desserts that Koreans love.

Menu selection reflecting the characteristics of Swedish baking & Korean preferences

Together, we'll create a unique Swedish dessert using almond flour, exotic spices, food colors, and unbaked meringues.

1. Add spices to dessert?

3 traditional Swedish breads baked with exotic spices

① Bread with cardamom dough on the outside: Semra

It's a Swedish national snack with almond paste and cream between buns made from cardamom dough. Traditionally, it is the last dessert eaten before fasting in February, and there is also a “Semra Day” every month like Pepero Day in February. In Stockholm, Sweden, there is also a “mystery shopper” who only searches for Semra restaurants and evaluates the taste!

BAKING POINTS:

Hand dough that takes advantage of the right ratio of ingredients such as butter, cardamom, and flour, and a chewy texture
How to make almond paste with a consistency and a crispy texture that won't crumble even when added warm

② Sweden's national bread: cinnamon roll cannellboulé

A cute cinnamon roll topped with pearl sugar on top of cardamom dough and cinnamon filling. Cinnamon rolls are as popular in Sweden as soboro bread. Unlike the cinnamon bun, a pastry we commonly eat, it is characterized by its chewy and soft texture. It's great as a dessert with coffee, and you can enjoy it as a busy breakfast or snack.

BAKING POINTS:

Moist, chewy cardamom dough and fermentation
How to make a smooth, well-applied cinnamon peeling
Making various cinnamon roll shapes with dough (roll shape, how to make a knot)

③ The delicate color and subtle charm of saffron - Christmas special menu Russe Cate

It's a traditional Swedish bread made with luxurious saffron. It is a traditional Christmas bread made by adding saffron, which symbolizes the dark light of winter, to cardamom bread dough and is eaten on Lucia Day on December 13th. I'll show you how to knead using saffron and how to create various shapes with the dough.

BAKING POINTS:

Making a moist and soft saffron dough
How to use dough to create various shapes

A colorful almond dough!

2 marzipan desserts that are pleasing to the eye and mouth

① Cakes for special occasions such as birthdays, graduation, and weddings - Princess cake

Princess cake is a cake that Swedes eat when they have something to celebrate, such as marriage or graduation. I make it by filling the sponge cake with sweet berry jam, soft custard, and whipped cream and covered with marzipan. Treat your loved ones to their anniversary with homemade marzipan made using almond powder and icing sugar!

BAKING POINTS:

How to make sponge cake genoise, which is the base of a cake
Making a soft, colorful custard cream
Use a spatula to shape a cake with cream
Make your own marzipan with almond flour (making a shape/getting rid of diameters/making a soft dough)
How to store marzipan so that it maintains its matte quality
How to evenly dye marzipan in food colors
How to cover a cake and make a decoration so that the marzipan doesn't fall apart

② Shake rum & cacao - freshwater curry

A freshwater grill, nicknamed “cute vacuum cleaner,” derived from the fact that it sucks up the sweet crumble left over after baking. A traditional Swedish dessert made by adding sake (rum) and chocolate to a sponge cake crumble and rolling it in sweet marzipan. It's a finger dessert that goes well with coffee and goes well with wine.

BAKING POINTS:

How to make use of leftover crumble after baking a sponge cake
How to use rum to make the most of the characteristic flavor of freshwater curry
How to roll dough with marzipan
Chocolate dipping

Making new use of familiar materials,

5 types of chocolate and meringue based desserts

Even with familiar ingredients, there are differences in how to use them from country to country. We'll try to make 5 different desserts using ingredients we're familiar with, such as cacao powder and meringue.

① Swedish Brownies - Kladkaka

It's a simple chocolate dessert made with a one-bowl recipe. It has a characteristic texture between a soft cake and a crispy cookie, A Swedish dessert that you can easily make in 20 to 30 minutesIt is very popular when a customer suddenly comes and as a snack for children!

BAKING POINTS:

A kneading method that creates a texture and controls the temperature and time of baking
Making a sauce that can be eaten with clad kaka

② NO OVEN DESSERT - 3 SHOCKLARD BOWLS

I'm going to make an oatmeal-based dessert with cacao powder and butter, which can be easily prepared with 3 toppings without an oven. It contains almost no flour and is based on oatmeal, so you can enjoy it casually!

BAKING POINTS:

Make a mix base with oatmeal
Add coffee according to your taste to create a variety of flavors

③ Fantastic collaboration between chewy almond cookies and soft buttercream - Shoclad Bisquivier

The art of blending flavourful chocolate buttercream on top of a chewy cookie base made of almonds! I'm going to make a unique chocolate biscuit using almond flour, cacao, and butter.

BAKING POINTS:

Making chewy cookies with almond flour
Making soft but firm chocolate buttercream
Make a spinning top shape with a spatula
Chocolate dipping

④ Soft unbaked meringue fondant on dark chocolate - Mumsmums

Crispy butter cookies topped with soft Italian meringue and a dark chocolate coating. The soft meringue mousse is a dessert hidden inside a crispy dark chocolate, and you can enjoy a variety of textures.

BAKING POINTS:

How to make Mördeg's butter dough, the basis for Swedish cookies
Making soft Italian meringues without baking
Use a piping bag to make a meringue shape
How to dip soft meringues into chocolate so they don't crumble

④ Sponge cake in love with fruit and meringue - Pinocchio Torta

It's a cream cake made simply by adding fresh fruit and sweet baked meringue and eaten in Sweden during midsummer (Hajj festival, which is Sweden's biggest holiday). It's a cake topped with a variety of seasonal fruits, and you can enjoy both fresh and sweet fruits, soft meringue, and sponge cake.

BAKING POINTS:

How to make French meringue so that it doesn't collapse by making use of the air layer
How to adjust the baking temperature to improve the texture of sponge cake and meringue

Understand the culture of baking

Trying to make a 'difference' in our daily lives

The purpose of traveling is not to see new landscapes, but to have new eyes

- Marcel Proust

Get away from the repetitive everyday life and be with me Enjoying the lives of people who enjoy different lives is also an effective way to invite change in their lives. Occupies one of the food, clothing, and clothing I don't think there's any content where you can experience local culture as deeply as food. Therefore, I enhanced the completeness of the content to the extent that I felt like I was traveling to Sweden through baking.

In addition to being a master of local recipes in Sweden, there are interesting topics in every chapter, such as coffee suitable for desserts and ways to enjoy it, food culture that blends into food, and platingI want to tell you the story of Weden. An opportunity to prepare snacks as a new hobby, develop a special gift or a new cafe menu Please use it according to your own purpose. Thank you for inviting us on your trip.

Nordic cafe menu at home! - We make Swedish cakes and cookies that are pleasing to the eyes and mouth with the locals

Nordic cafe menu at home! - We make Swedish cakes and cookies that are pleasing to the eyes and mouth with the locals