This old-fashioned Swedish visiting cake recipe is infused with almond flavor and has a sweet and crunchy almond topping.

Princess Cake, lauded as Sweden’s most iconic dessert, was created in the 1920s, by cookbook author and home economics expert Jenny Åkerström.

SWEDISH “STICKY” CHOCOLATE CAKE. This gooey-centered chocolate cake, a popular sweet in Sweden, is called kladdkaka, which translates as “sticky cake.” ...

Known as prinsesstårta, the princess cake is one of Sweden’s most recognizable and beloved pastries. First introduced by Åkerström in 1948, it was originally known as gröntårta, ...

Pink marzipan is available online or from specialist cake suppliers. If you prefer to make your own, you can add good-quality gel or paste food colouring to light marzipan.

On the Thursday night that falls between 18 and 24 June each year, cities all over Sweden go quiet. Stockholm's elegant and bustling streets are empty.

Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson speaking in April 2013. File photo: Leo Sellén/TT. Sweden Democrat party leader Jimmie Åkesson ended up with cake on his face after a woman attacked him with a ...

If your ideal chocolate dessert is dense, impossibly rich and almost like an underbaked brownie, meet your new love: this recipe for kladdkaka, or Swedish chocolate cake, from Sofia Nordgren’s ...

The cake acts as a metaphor for Sweden's obsession with African female genital mutilation. Sweden cares a lot about female genital mutilation, a traditional practice in parts of Africa of forcibly ...

Method. Step 1 Prepare the topping. Wash the strawberries and cut them into quarters. Marinate them in elderflower juice or cordial for about 30 minutes.