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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you sit down to a fresh cardamom bun with your morning coffee, perhaps you feel as if you're enjoying a meal fit for royalty. You wouldn't be far off, considering that hand-harvested cardamom is ...

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 ...

Lefse. It’s a paper-thin flatbread, made from potatoes and cooked on a griddle, flipped with a long, narrow wooden stick, and eaten slathered with butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon. If you’re of ...

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 ...

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 ...