06 February 2011

Finnish Sour Cream Cookies

Since St. Valentine's Day is right around the corner I have had many requests from people for cookies, candies, ect... One of my friends asked me if I had any recipes that were Valentineish in nature so, here is an easy one. These can have food colouring added to them to make them pink, red, or any colour that you want them to be. 


Ingredients

  • 1 cup of butter
  • 1 cup of sugar
  • 1/2 cup of sour cream
  • 1/4 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla
  • 3 cups of all-purpose flour
  • Food colouring of choosing
Directions
  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
  • Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl
  • In a separate bowl, cream together sour cream, salt, and vanilla
  • Add together
  • Add food colouring if desired
  • Chill for about 1 hour
  • Roll out and cut into various shapes with cookie cutters
  • Grease cookie sheets
  • Bake for 10 minutes
And that is it! They are easy and are fun to make. I like to frost mine like sugar cookies, but leaving them plain is fine too. If you have trouble rolling the dough out all you need to do is let it warm up just a bit and it will be fine. 

04 February 2011

Swedish Pancakes

Well, one of my friends was asking me what my favorite food was the other day. Now for some this would be an easy question to answer, for me, not so much. However, I finally settled on Swedish Pancakes after much debate over various Scandinavian dishes. Since she has never had actual Swedish Pancakes, no those things they serve at IHOP don't count, I gave her my recipe that I acquired, from my part Swedish boyfriend who is from that part of the world, and she found them to be the best things in the world. So, I'm sharing it with you all. Here you go.


Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup of flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • 1 cup of milk (If you use soy milk, use the unsweetened kind or only use 1 tablespoon of sugar)
  • 1 cup of milk
  • 3 tablespoons of sour cream
  • Olive oil
 Directions

  • In a large bowl, beat the eggs until thick and smooth
  • In a separate bowl mix sifted flour, salt and sugar
  • Add the flour mixture and milk to the eggs incrementally
  • Whisk in sour cream
  • Heat small skillet and place a small amount of olive oil in the bottom
  • Pour enough batter into the skillet to just cover the bottom
  • Brown on one side
  • Flip the pancake over when bubbles appear on the surface and the edges start to dry
  • Brown on other side
  • Repeat with the rest of the batter
Traditionally, these pancakes are eaten rolled up with lingonsvlt, lingonberry jam. Lingonsylt is kind of hard to find in America unless you live in really big cities or want to spend a pretty penny getting it off of here. Personally, I get my lingonsvlt from IKEA in their Swedish Food Market. It's only $2.99 a jar plus tax which really isn't that bad for imported food. However, some, like myself, don't have and IKEA nearby and the closest one is five hours away so if you go stock up! If you must eat them like Americans, they taste pretty okay with maple syrup imported from Canada. 
Enjoy!