Swedish Baking

Specialised

Cardamom and cinnamon are the defining spices of the Swedish sweet kitchen, and the country uses cardamom at a rate almost unmatched outside South Asia. KANELBULLAR and kardemummabullar, with their own day on 4 October; lussekatter with saffron at Lucia; semlor before Lent; kladdkaka; prinsesstårta under green marzipan; ostkaka; and the sjukakorssystem, the seven kinds of biscuit a hostess was expected to be able to set out.