A Festive Afternoon Coffee

Earlier this calendar week nosotros hosted a footling festive gathering at our place, (a casual afternoon larn together amongst friends). When I was little, I yell back my grandparents frequently sitting amongst their friends for an afternoon coffee, Fika, a interruption for java in addition to a seize amongst teeth to eat. I would sit down nether the tabular array in addition to pretend I was a cat, piece my gramps broke opened upwards his favorite cheeses, paired amongst some potent dark java in addition to my grandmother's hard tack bread in addition to ginger snap cookies. I long for those afternoons in addition to therefore I decided to brand a trip to IKEA for a footling Swedish inspiration for our footling gathering. Something I wasn't expecting piece at that spot was running into an awesome footling majority called Fika inwards the Bistro section. The majority which was $6.99 (amazing deal!) contains xxx classic Swedish baking recipes from bite-size cookies to festive cakes in addition to was the perfect affair I was looking for to inspire my footling afternoon get-together! Want to accept a peek?

almond shells

I ended upwards making the almond shells (theirs shown above). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 actually delicious footling recipe I most definitely recommend.

Almond Shells

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/2 loving cup of super fine sugar, 2/3 loving cup of blanched in addition to peeled almonds, 2 drops of almond extract, seven oz of refrigerator temperature butter. 1 egg.
What to do:
After y'all grease in addition to flour the baking tins, mix the flour, sugar, almonds, almond extract in addition to butter into a shine glue inwards a nutrient processor. Add the egg in addition to mix it in. Divide dough into 3 pieces in addition to ringlet into lengths, wind inwards plastic, refridgerate for 1-2hrs. Preheat oven to 350 F - take dough from the fridge, take the plastic wrap, in addition to split the dough into 12 pieces, press the dough out inwards each tin. Bake for 8-12 min. Turn the tins over when they create got cooled in addition to carefully take shells. Serve the almond shells equally pastries amongst whipped cream, fresh berries, cloudberry jam or jelly. Instead of the jam I used a footling dollop of cherry pie filling. So yum!

swedish national twenty-four hr catamenia pastries (ingredients)

princess torte

As y'all tin encounter the majority is likewise visually pleasing (Project Manager: Josefine Hallberg, Art Directed past times Christoffer Persson & Staffan Lamm, Forsman & Bodenfors, styled past times Evelina Kleiner, photography past times Carl Kleiner/Mink Mgmt) - loved the styling of all the ingredients in addition to therefore the finished baked piece. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 must-have for all y'all bakers out there! Our Fika was therefore fun, I promise to produce it 1 time again soon.

Shown on our table: 1 - JULKUL tea towel set, 2 - SMYCKA artificial spray, iii - IKEA 365+ serving platter, iv - JULFINT tabular array runner, 5 - RESURS Carving board, 6 - YRSNO beige in addition to reddish twine - (thank y'all Rosa for scooping this upwards for me)!

IKEA nutrient products: Princess cakes (so yum), Ginger cookies, Soft marshmallow pastry, Swedish apple tree cake, Rhubarb crumble tart, in addition to BROD MJUKKAKA soft bread. Styling in addition to photography past times January Halvarson. Thank y'all to IKEA Canada for providing some of our vacation tabular array decor in addition to fare in addition to helping spread the vacation JUL!