These homemade checkerboard cookies are light, crispy, and crumbly. Shortbread cookies like these fit perfectly with a cup of coffee or tea. They are easy to make, so even the kids can help with the baking. Next time your up for a game of chess why not serve these small checkerboard cookies next to your chessboard…

A homemade and elegant cake that fits for birthdays or any other occasions you can think of. Any little prince or princess will love this pink marzipan coated cake, filled with vanilla cream, fresh blueberries, whip cream and white chocolate. The decoration of the cake has no limits when the birthday kid is allowed to help.

Homemade small lemon cheesecake bars fits perfect as a summer dessert. Small treats with a crispy top and bottom, with a sweet soft filling with a hint of lemon. Perfect to serve when you have many guests as you can prepare it the day before.

Homemade Swiss hazelnuts Macaroons with only 4 ingredients, that are both quick and easy to prepare. These Hazelnut Macaroons are traditional Swiss Christmas cookies. Perfect little treats to serve as part of the dessert buffet, when you have friends and family over for a party.

This is a tasty homemade banana cake with a cream cheese frosting. It is considered a perfect sweet tea time treat in comparison to the plain banana breakfast bread. You can use different shapes for the baking form to make it different than the traditional loaf shape.

You will recognize these Alsatian Christmas cookies by their special shape, and can often find them dipped in chocolate, or soaked in coffee. This is the original recipe of one of many popular small Christmas cookies called bredele.

Looking for inspirations for a different Christmas cake this year? Why not try a homemade French Buche de Noel, also known as Christmas log or Yule Log! A dark sponge cake filled with and covered with chocolate mousse. Have fun decoration the cake with Christmas decorations. Don’t forget to offer a piece to Santa, he will like it as well.

What taste better during the holidays than a home made cake after a big celebration feast. This soft saffron cake is perfect for that and is is big enough for 15 friends and family members. To save time and energy you can prepare it the day before.

A homemade Swedish Radio cake is one of the old classic cakes from the fifty´s. It is easy to make but need to rest in the fridge over the night. The cake resembles an old radio and was often eaten while listening to the radio.

This Swedish prince cake is another version of the famous princess cake. It is a homemade blueberry cake which is a hit at any birthday parties in the autumn when it is high season for blueberries. It is a creamy cake with a blueberry and white chocolate filling, topped with a layer of marzipan.

A homemade Finnish blueberry whipped cream cake is a real celebration cake, especially during the summer months. A wonderful and delicious way to enjoy the blueberries you bring home from the walk in the forest.

This is a homemade Italian dessert pie with hazelnuts, chocolate and ricotta cheese filling. It resembles a cheesecake in the consistence, but looks like a pie. The original recipe uses Gianduia chocolate that is a specialty from the region Piedmont where the hazelnuts grows.

This is a recipe for homemade French chocolate eclairs, made with a petit choux pastry. These lovely desserts can be filled with chocolate, vanilla cream, or a mousse for example, and as a finish they are dipped in chocolate. You will get pretty and delicious eclairs that will amaze all your guests.

This is a homemade chocolate cheesecake prepared in a slightly different way than the traditional cheesecake. The bottom is made with pink biscuits from the region Reims in France. The closest you can come to these biscuits are pink lady fingers. Instead of serving a full round cheesecake this recipe prepare the cake in small single portions instead.

This is a saffron version of the very popular Swedish chocolate mud cake called “kladdkaka”. This one is a gluten free version made with almond flour and white chocolate. It is prepared in a few minutes and is perfect for a spontaneous dessert. If you want a sauce on the side whip cream fits nicely together with the cake.

Everyone knows that Swedes are crazy about their lingonberries and serve it to all kinds of food. This cheesecake recipe with lingonberries proves that you can have a dinner with lingonberries as a theme ! The autumn is the season for these berries. If you don't want to go out in the forest to pick them yourself you will find fresh ones in the shops during this period of the year, or frozen ones all year around.

Christmas cookies in all shapes and flavors can be found all over the world, even so in the region Alsace in France, where they are called Bredele. These small hazelnut treats are both easy and quick to prepare and can be made already in November. But it is hard to resist the delicious small cookies before Christmas, so make sure to make enough of them.

A homemade birthday cake is always appreciated. This way the little birthday boy or girl can help to decorate the cake them self. This Scandinavian princess inspired cake is filled with homemade blueberry and raspberry mousse, and vanilla sauce. The cake is covered with green marzipan and decorations according to the birthday boy’s wishes.

If you have a sweet tooth you will love this divine Nutella cake. It is a mousse cake with a biscuit bottom that will melt in your mouth at the first bite. To enhance the taste of the cake you can add small pieces of hazelnuts in the mousse.

Looking for an easy cookie recipe before the guests arriving? Why not try these small sweet tender cookies with a crispy surface and a chewy center, flavored with syrup and cacao? Quick and easy to prepare and the house will smell like a bakery when the guests enters the door.

These small cookies will make you happy any time, and can be served for any occasions. They are both fun and super easy do, so you don't need to be a baking expert. They are a big hit at kids birthday parties.

Yes chocolate frosting on a carrot cake actually fits. This homemade carrot cake with a firm chocolate frosting resembles more the Brazilian carrot cake than the American version. To enhance the flavor even more you can add 150 grams of grated coconut in the batter. If you have carrots at home and have no idea what to do with them why not make a carrot cake.

A homemade chocolate cake made with real chocolate and cacao powder is always appreciated. This one is soft and a bit sticky in the middle and both adults and children will like it.

The 4th of October is the national day of the Cinnamon bun in Sweden, and every shop and café smells like cinnamon buns. If you don’t have a lot of time but still want to bake your own buns, try making them by using puff pastry dough. This will save you a lot of time, and you will have the same wonderful, good filling as the traditional buns. The kids will love them together with a glass of milk.

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.

A French King cake is traditionally made with almond filling, but to make it a bit different than usual try it with chocolate instead. A crispy puff pastry cake filled with almond paste and a soft hazelnut cream creates a wonderful taste combination.

If you love the hazelnut cream nutella and chocolate, this brownie will become your new favorite cake. It is a combination of a traditional chocolate brownie but made with a nutella fudge in the middle and a chocolate frosting on top. It might be sweet and full of calories but yet so delicious, and hard to resist to just have one bite.

These small no bake cheesecake desserts fits to every occasion. It's easy to prepare, taste wonderful and is a treat for the eyes. Make sure you prepare one or two extra because it is always someone who would like another one.

This hazelnut chocolate brownie has the perfect combination of a crispy surface and a soft inside with crunchy hazelnut bites. This brownie is more like a chocolate cake in consistence, but has the taste of a wonderful chocolate brownie.

A homemade traditional rhubarb custard pie. The pie is especially popular in the region where you can use your own rhubarb fresh from the garden. You can make the pie in many different ways, such as with crumbles, custard, or with double layer of dough. The sweetness of the pie depending on how much sugar you use.

It's commonly known that Sweeds love their cinnamon buns as well as a sticky mud cake. This is a homemade combination between them both called cinnamon bun mud cake. It taste as a cinnamon bun but the texture is a sticky mud cake. To make it look more like a cinnamon cake you can decorate it with decoration sugar.