Swedish Dessert Recipes

For Your Personal Smorgasbord: Swedish Dessert Recipes

Give these Swedish dessert recipes a try. Traditional Swedish desserts are known to be simple, sweet, and satisfying, and these delicious desserts are no exception. They are made from fresh, wholesome ingredients which add to their good taste.

You will love the wonderful buttery flavor of the Swedish butter cookies and the wafers, and the deliciously creamy-textured pudding is a joy to serve on any occasion.

1 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 egg separated, 1 tablespoon cream, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup chopped pecans, red current jelly, or red and green cherries.

Beat till creamy butter, sugar, beaten egg yolk, cream, vanilla; blend and sift in dry ingredients; mix in 1/2 cup pecans. Form dough in balls, beat egg white lightly with a fork, dip each ball in egg yolk, then roll in rest of nuts.

Place cookies on ungreased sheet, making an indentation in each ball, fill dent with jelly, or cherries. Bake at 350°F about 20 minutes or until done.

1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 5 oz flour, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla, shredded almonds.

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, eggs slightly beaten, flour, and flavoring. Drop by spoonfuls on an inverted buttered dripping-pan. Spread very thinly, using a knife, in circular shapes about three inches in diameter. Sprinkle with almonds, and bake in a slow oven. Remove from pan, and shape at once over the handle of a wooden spoon.

Ingredients: One-half pound of flour, one-half pound of butter, one-half pound of sugar, eight eggs, a little salt.

Rub the sugar and butter to a cream; add the yolks well beaten, the salt, flour, and, lastly, the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Put the batter three-fourths of an inch deep into teacups.

Cook by steaming them in a steamer about half an hour. The batter will fill the cups. Turn them out on a hot platter. Serve immediately with a clear brandy sauce in the bottom of the dish. Half the above amount will be sufficient for a small family.