Whizz the almonds and sugar together in a food processor until finely ground. Add the egg whites and whizz again until you have a smooth, white mixture. Work quickly to make sure it does not get too ...

Every day, Yahoo Food features delectable cakes. They taste good, they look good, and they’re made by good people — talented bakers from around the world. This week we’ll be sharing traditional ...

Chef Nichole Accettola is doing her homework ahead of her first visit to Minnesota. Accettola, who owns the popular Scandinavian bakery-cafe Kantine in San Francisco, queried customers via newsletter ...

Looking for ways to boost your cookie-baking skills this holiday season? We paged through three hot new baking cookbooks to help and the results — Scandinavian honey cookies with chocolate, ...

Simple goodness — one of the many enviable traits of Scandinavian baked goods. These thimble cookies, sweet jam cradled in tender dough and accented by chopped walnuts, are a lovely example. They’re ...

Growing up in rural Ohio, Nichole Accettola looked forward to the iconic Royal Dansk tins of butter cookies that popped up around the holidays. But she’d never experienced Scandinavian baking beyond ...

These Danish holiday cookies are so pretty, some people decorate their Christmas trees with them, says Scandinavian baking expert Nichole Accettola, owner of San Francisco’s Kantine Scandinavian ...

Want to give your Christmas dinner a little twist this year? Take some notes from our Scandi cousins, with these delicious Scandinavian Christmas recipes. Seeing as the cold in Sweden makes the ...

As the daughter of a Swede growing up in the Pacific Northwest, candles were an essential part of getting through the gray and rainy winter. Every morning growing up, breakfast was always eaten by ...

BALLARD GETS TAGGED as Seattle’s “historically” Scandinavian neighborhood, but that makes it sound like a thing of the past. At last year’s Syttende Mai (17th of May) parade marking Norway’s ...

When I was young, my family had our traditional favorites we baked every year, molasses kringles, cinnamon sticks, Mexican wedding cakes and sugar cookies. We were not of Scandinavian heritage, so we ...