Could anyone resist the smell of cinnamon and freshly baked buns?
I would say kannelbulle, cinnamon bun, is the most typical Swedish pastry eaten with coffee and tea. Sweden has a special verb “att fika” which includes the whole activities of drinking coffee, chatting with friends and spending a quality time. How useful! For
Swedes, this fika time is very important time of the day. Even during lectures at my university, my course leaders say “fikapaus” (fika pause) instead of just taking a break. Fika is very integrated in Swedish culture. It is as important as Spain and Tapas!
To compliment their lovely coffee time, Swedes have a variety of sweets selections to choose from! Today’s post is all about Swedish sweets!
We can start from their famous godis, candies you can put in a bag and pay by weight. Usually they are small pieces of chocolates and gummies. Though I must say this is notreally for coffee purpose but I have seen people eating these candies with their afterwork drinks. I read in my Swedish textbook that Swedes buy a full bag of the candies onweekends and have once a week godis treat. They cannot eat them everyday because they are bad for the teeth.
Many kinds of pastries and sweets can be found in the local coffee shops. They even have some special days to eat special sweets! Sweet festivities in Sweden:
- Fat Tuesday with Semla – cardamom bun with almond and cream. This bun was made for Lent and it will really fill you up. - March 25 day so they decided this day as waffle day.
- October 4 bun at home!
- November 6 or chocolate
- December 13- Waffles day. Apparently “Our Lady’s Day” in Swedish sounds like waffle
– Kannelbullensdag, cinnamon buns day. Every Swedish people bake the King Gustav Adolf’s day – celebrated with sponge cakes with marzipan.
– Lussekatt, saffron bun, is eaten during the Christmas season.
- Birthdays - are usually celebrated with a princess cake which is a sponge cake and cream covered with green marzipans!
- Every Thursday – is the day of pancakes and pea soup.
When you walk into a café in Sweden, you will find many more than what I have listed.
Hope you find something you enjoy! Happy fika time!