Holiday Baking, the Norwegian Way

Holiday Baking, the Norwegian Way
Norwegian heritage can be celebrated with a host of traditional Christmas specialties, including festive spritz cookies, fragrant pepperkaker, and a warm mulled wine called gløgg. Sarah Nasello
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I’m an avid baker, and the holidays are a time when I get to shine the spotlight on recipes that celebrate my Norwegian ancestry.

Norwegians love their sweets, especially during the holidays, when they celebrate with syv slags kaker, or “seven types of cookies,” a Christmas tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages.
Sarah Nasello
Sarah Nasello
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Sarah Nasello is a food writer, recipe developer, and passionate home baker based in Fargo, North Dakota, where she lives with her Sicilian-Canadian husband and son. A picky eater as a child, Sarah’s love for food developed through her former life as a cruise director, when she traveled to all seven continents, and her 28 years of marriage to her husband, a trained chef and hospitality professional.
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