With this recipe it is simple and easy to make a super moist and creamy carrot cake. The secret ingredient to make it dense is actually to add olive oil. You can find carrot cakes with or without nuts, and with different flavors. This recipe contains cinnamon and is covered with a big layer of cream cheese.

This cake is perfect if you are not a sweet tooth but still like desserts. The bottom is foft and the topping is with cream but have a coffee taste. To make it different it is possible to sprinkle som dark chocolate on top of the cake.

In Sweden it is common to bake cakes and buns with saffron between the first Sunday of advent and Christmas. The cakes and buns are served as Swedish fika often together with coffee or tea. This is traditional chocolate balls but made with saffron instead.

This popular Swedish cardamom bun is filled with almond paste and whipped cream, and then sprinkled with icing sugar. This is the traditional way of making it, but it is possible to find it with or without cardamon, with vanilla and raspberry filling as well.

This homemade gingerbread mousse is a perfect dessert around Christmas times. It is a sweet delicious mousse with crunchy bites of gingerbread cookies inside. The mousse is easy and fast to prepare and can be kept in the fridge for a few days.

Try out this tortilla pizza when the kids are asking for pizza and you don’t have time to make your own dough. Takes only a few minutes to prepare and you can use what you have at home as topping. Here is a suggestion with halloumi cheese and salami. You can make a pizza evening whenever you’re up for it thanks to this brilliant quick fix.

A typical way to do a pie in Sweden is to use beef minced meat. You can add different ingredients in this pie. The pie has a bottom but no top.

The chocolate bites in this classical banana cake gives it a delightful flavor combination. Instead of throwing away your overripe bananas you cane use them to make this moist sponge cake. Some say banana cake some say banana bread, whatever the name it is a good cake !

This potato gratin with anchovy (Janssons frestelse) is a classic on every Swedish Christmas tables and most of the eastern tables. The recipe got it name in the 1940 when it was published. This is a different fish dish, without the typical fishy taste.

The Swedish smörgåstårta is very popular in the summer and is often served on school graduations or fits to all big summer celebrations. This particularly on might not be the first one that comes to mind, but both kids and adults will love it. The cake is best to prepare one day before, that way it has time to rest in the fridge over the night.