My parents were visiting me in Bergen last week, so of course I wanted to bake something special for them. And so I thought of fyrstekake, or prince cake in English, a Norwegian classic that I’ve been wanting to make for a while. Two of my very favorite Norwegian desserts are mazariner and suksessterte, and fyrstekake is sort of like a combination of the two. Fyrstekake is a vanilla lattice pie with a soft almond filling. Prince cake tastes great warm out of the oven topped with whipped cre...| Scandinavian Cookbook
Most Norwegians refer to kvæfjord cake (kvæfjordkake) as simply verdens beste, or the world’s best cake. In fact some of my friends here in Norway didn’t even know that verdens beste is officially called kvæfjordkake. Now personally, if I were to give any cake the title of world’s best cake I would choose suksessterte, but I’ll at least agree that it’s one of the best cakes in the world. And I’ll also add that Kvæfjord is one of the most beautiful parts of Norway, nestled betw...| Scandinavian Cookbook