I love to bake, so I often volunteer to bring a dessert when gathering with friends to celebrate a birthday. This month we celebrated my friend Ann's birthday. Ann has lived and traveled all over the ...

Rullekake, as the cake is known in Norway, is not strictly a Norwegian dessert, nor is it necessarily Swiss. It's probably from somewhere in Central Europe, such as Austria, but it's so beloved in ...

Teresa Garrison couldn’t believe her luck when she bought a Scandinavian almond cake pan and it came with the recipe so important to her. Garrison, 68, of Camano Island, bakes the cake as a way to ...

John McCusker/The Times-PicayuneLillian Rafoss made this traditional Norwegian cream cake. Makes 12-14 servings, 1 cake Sponge base 6 eggs 3/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking ...

While researching my new cookbook, "A Baker's Odyssey," I thanked my lucky stars when I met Leisha Ingdal. A second-generation Norwegian, Leisha cooks and bakes in Edina, Minn., a suburb of ...