Desserts

A good dessert is what your guests remember. Here are desserts for every occasion: ice cream and sorbet, panna cotta, cakes and pastries, with seasonal berries and fruit. Many are made the day before, so all you need to do is plate them.

Orange and Saffron Ice Cream with Gingerbread Wafers

We Swedes have long embraced flavours and spices from the East, and many of them have become closely associated with Christmas. Saffron and cinnamon in particular have found their place among our most traditional festive flavours. Here, they come together in crisp, spiced gingerbread wafers and a wonderfully creamy saffron ice cream with a hint of orange. Its intense, sunny yellow colour brings to mind brighter and warmer days – a welcome contrast to the darkness of a Swedish Christmas, however cosy it may be.

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Almond Cake with Lingonberry Cream

To finish this late-summer menu we enjoy a cake that smells of summer and brings to mind old red Swedish cottages with white corners, the scent of freshly cut hay and bumblebees buzzing in the background. The cake is crowned with whipped cream that has taken on flavour and colour from the first freshly picked lingonberries of autumn.

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Brownie

Sinfully good, with an intense chocolate flavour that rounds off the dinner in style.

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Rhubarb Pie with Vanilla Custard

Rhubarb is a classic in Swedish gardens, and for many its flavour means summer and lush green gardens. With the rhubarb pie we make a truly wonderful homemade vanilla custard. In French, vanilla custard is called crème anglaise, which translates as "English sauce", most likely because of the English fondness for custard. Making a proper vanilla custard isn't difficult if you follow our instructions.

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White Chocolate Mousse with Raspberry Sauce and Gingerbread Crumble

This mousse is made with quark, which makes it a little tangier, a good match for the otherwise sweet white chocolate. For a sweeter mousse, use less quark and more cream. If gingerbread biscuits are out of season, something else works just as well, such as digestive biscuits.

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