A Festive Afternoon Coffee
Earlier this calendar week nosotros hosted a petty festive gathering at our place, (a casual afternoon larn together alongside friends). When I was little, I shout back my grandparents oft sitting alongside their friends for an afternoon coffee, Fika, a intermission for java in addition to a seize alongside teeth to eat. I would sit down nether the tabular array in addition to pretend I was a cat, piece my grandad broke opened upward his favorite cheeses, paired alongside some potent dark java in addition to my grandmother's hard tack bread in addition to ginger snap cookies. I long for those afternoons in addition to hence I decided to brand a trip to IKEA for a petty Swedish inspiration for our petty gathering. Something I wasn't expecting piece in that location was running into an awesome petty mass called Fika inwards the Bistro section. The mass which was $6.99 (amazing deal!) contains thirty classic Swedish baking recipes from bite-size cookies to festive cakes in addition to was the perfect affair I was looking for to inspire my petty afternoon get-together! Want to induce got a peek?
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| almond shells |
I ended upward making the almond shells (theirs shown above). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 actually delicious petty recipe I most definitely recommend.
Almond Shells
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/2 loving cup of super fine sugar, 2/3 loving cup of blanched in addition to peeled almonds, 2 drops of almond extract, vii oz of refrigerator temperature butter. 1 egg.
What to do:
After y'all grease in addition to flour the baking tins, mix the flour, sugar, almonds, almond extract in addition to butter into a polish glue inwards a nutrient processor. Add the egg in addition to mix it in. Divide dough into 3 pieces in addition to curl into lengths, wind inwards plastic, refridgerate for 1-2hrs. Preheat oven to 350 F - take away dough from the fridge, take away the plastic wrap, in addition to split upward the dough into 12 pieces, press the dough out inwards each tin. Bake for 8-12 min. Turn the tins over when they induce got cooled in addition to carefully take away shells. Serve the almond shells equally pastries alongside whipped cream, fresh berries, cloudberry jam or jelly. Instead of the jam I used a petty dollop of cherry pie filling. So yum!
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| swedish national 24-hour interval pastries (ingredients) |
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| princess torte |
As y'all tin plow over the axe meet the mass is besides visually pleasing (Project Manager: Josefine Hallberg, Art Directed past times Christoffer Persson & Staffan Lamm, Forsman & Bodenfors, styled past times Evelina Kleiner, photography past times Carl Kleiner/Mink Mgmt) - loved the styling of all the ingredients in addition to and then the finished baked piece. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 must-have for all y'all bakers out there! Our Fika was hence fun, I promise to produce it over again soon.
IKEA nutrient products: Princess cakes (so yum), Ginger cookies, Soft marshmallow pastry, Swedish apple tree cake, Rhubarb crumble tart, in addition to BROD MJUKKAKA soft bread. Styling in addition to photography past times January Halvarson. Thank y'all to IKEA Canada for providing some of our vacation tabular array decor in addition to fare in addition to helping spread the vacation JUL!
