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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This Cheese Danish recipe will blow your socks off! It’s not only so easy but also SO delicious and drizzled with icing on ...

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 ...

As a child growing up in central North Dakota in the 1980s, I was surrounded by Norwegian sweets: krumkake, spritz cookies, fattigman, rosettes, and of course, lefse, the potato-based flatbread spread ...

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 ...

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 ...