@@bluebellbeatnik4945 Fondant is similar, but the recepie is slightly different, it is sometime used if one want a smoother finish on the cake, for example in making decoraive figures, but it is much more sensitive to moisture from the cake so it must be applied shortly before the cake is finished, unlike Marsipan that can be applied whan the cake is prepared. Fondant can have different tastes, like choccolate, etc. since it does not have much taste in it self, like marsipan, which is an active ingredient in the cake which is a part of the intended taste, fondant taste more like floor sugar without any added aromas. For example in France and Germany fondant is very popular on cakes, not so much in Sweden i think.
The kladdkaka is something you can very easily make at home and requires basically no effort. If you make it, serve it fresh out the oven with some vanilla ice cream. It's heavenly!
As a swede I would suggest you try a Tunnbrödsrulle at Nyhetsgrillen (Kungsholmen). That's traditional swedish fastfood that has been developed a lot the last years to an extremely nice dish. There are other places too but that's the best one in central Stockholm i would say.
Tip for next time you are in Stockholm, there is a restaurant called Sjätte Tunnan in Gamla Stan that serves authentic medieval dishes (the kind nobles ate not simple peasant food). It is not even commonly known by most locals, never seen any travel food channels cover it when they visit.
Try the herring, you had on hard flat bread, with mashed potatoes, lingonberries and pickled cucumber and if possible melted butter. That's the traditional way to eat it. My favourite from that food cart you visited is "Specialare" containing two fried herrings and mash. - A sort of half size portion but enough anyway. When you eat your mudcake - add some whipped cream and it brings your cake to a totally new level. Your Princess Cake was a celebration to the new born princess Sibylla in the 1920's. Before this it was called just Green Cake. But is, next to a proper strawberry cake, decorated with whipped cream, the most Swedish cake there is. And our pride. Strawberry cake is mandatory at every midsummer feast. The brown filling on your bisqvie is buttercream and cacao.
The meatballs looks a bit Americanized, traditionally they are made much smaller, like half an inch in diameter. The same goes for the cinnamon rolls, quite common with those huge rolls in cafés, but that's not the traditional way
It's the way Pelikan usually serves them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For more traditional Swedish meatballs, I think Operakällarns Bakficka or Tennstopet is a safer bet. (Sometimes I REALLY miss Nils Emil's...)
@@Bleckman666 I've never really had meatballs in a restaurant, it's more of a home cook for me. Man, it was a long time since I went to Pelikan or Tennstopet, I should do that the next time I come back to Stockholm
You should not miss to taste the reindeer saute with mashed potatoes and lingonberry, absolutely delicious with a slight taste of wild meat! Highly recommended!
What you did miss was visiting the restaurang Aifur. They serve (what is believed to be) viking food. Beside the exellent menu you have the upportunety to taste axcellent mead. Mead is not beer, mead is vine made of honey.
Thank you! I'll add it for next time. Ice had lots of a mead in the US as there was a place that made it not far from where we lived. It's very cool and I love this history behind it. Thank you for sharing!
The corrent name of the "biskvi" is actually "chokladbiskvi", which translates directly into "chocolate biscuit", because the Swedish word biskvi and the English word biscuit both come from the French word Biscuit.
4:20 Visit a fast food cart with a big sign that says freshly fried herring. Become disappointed that it is not pickled. (There are few eateries in Sweden that sell pickled herring as street food, it is probably more common in the Netherlands. Fried herring is the way to go.)
Anyone that coes to Stockholm should make a visit to Böderna Ohlsson Garlic and Shots, great bar with great music and great food, and its garlic in everything
It was an unexpected foodie destination! We went to so many amazing spots that we didn't film but made it in the Thatch guide. Including a couple Michelin recommend restaurants, burgers, and sushi 🤤
I saw another video of a Canadian couple visiting Sweden. They made the same horrible mistake! Visiting Sweden the wrong time of year... Swedes only want to be Swedes between May and September: that is heaven, but we pay for it the rest of the year. And Stockholm too! Cold is colder in Stockholm due to the sea-air. That moisture seeps through your clothes and you can't protect yourself. Writing this on May 26. Just four months of life left.
Kladdkaka isn't that old. I actually think it came to Sweden in the early nineties or late eighties. Chocolateballs are a more traditional take on the concept of easy chocolate treats kids can make at home. Just a mix of plain oats, butter, cocoa powder and sugar and rolled in pearl sugar or coconut flarns.
The meatballs look a bit disappointing actually. Its not very common to make them that big. Part of the appeal of proper home made meatballs is the nice crust, and since you traditionally make the meatballs small, they have lots of crust to meat ratio, giving that great taste! You are on the spot though, when you say the star of the dish is usually the sauce (or gravy, some might call it).
Did you try the smorgasboard, no idea how you write it, it's a sort of buffet with several small treats sweet and not sweet, it's some of the best things I eat! Try it! 👍
Good selection of different dishes! The "strömming" was maybe not your favourite though? To bad you didn't try "renskav". But I obviously understand that you can't try it all. And coffee (should be Swedish style coffee) is never as good as with some pastry or other! "Vete-katten" is sort of a pun. Means cat of wheat. But is also an idiomatic expression for not knowing, approximately: knoweth the cat.
Yeah, I think I just like strömming prepared differently. We had herring two other times and they were good. I just don't understand that one stall. Is it usually good? I do so much research before these videos that I'm very surprised when something doesn't live up to expectation. Thank you for the other information! I find it so helpful for when I go back ☺️
@@aWanderlustForLife actually there's a difference between "strömming" and "sill". In English they will both be referred to as herring. Strömming is the smaller native to the Baltic sea. Will be served fried most the times. Or fermented in nortern Sweden: "surströmming". More rarely smoked - "böckling". The pickeled herring will normally be the Atlantic bigger type, referred to as sill. Which could also be served fried, btw. A special sort of pickeled herring is the "matjessill" (matjes is a Dutch loneword, the Swedish matjessill is allegedly very different from the Dutch though), more salty than other pickeled herring. Matjessill is my favourite. Oh well, you didn't even ask for this info, but there it is! Thank you for introducing our cuisine to the world!
Yeah, strange country, strange people, strange food!? In anyway you tryed it out in our capital city on good resturantes/cafes so you got the best of it! Stekt strömming, (fried baltic herring was former a poor mans diet), now its a delicasy! Then you have to try "inlagd sill", its cured atlantic herring, a staple on traditional swedish dishes!
that is actually not per se a princess cake, is per definition an opera cake. The princess cake does not have the raspberry filling. But then again, very few of my fellow swedes know the difference...
This is some new thing. It has been called princess cake all my life. I understand why but I think it's a bit ridiculous to call it Opera cake nowadays. The original from Jenny Åkerströms book "Prinsessornas kokbok" was called green cake and did not have raspberry jam. Jenny Åkerström ran a household school for young girls in Stockholm during the first half of the 20th century. Among the students were the princesses Margaretha, Märtha and Astrid. I had princess cake without jam at pretentious bakeries and it is just annoying and disappointing (I didn't know as I am not living in Sweden). Sorry for the rant.
@@Microsization As you mentione yourself, the Jenny Åkerström book (the princess cook book) recepie does not contain jam, hense "Princesstårta" is without jam. Quite simple. But again, very few of my fellow swedes know this. Not a new thing. A very old thing. However collective memory is a strange thing and nowadays very few people seems to know/remember this. So again, a very old and traditional thing that is being forgotten rather than "a new thing"
@@annicaesplund6613Okay. Consider me another "American (we capitalize both nationality and ethnicity) you've met". I'm known for eating burritos with a knife and a fork 😊 Americans are pretty flexible with spoons, forks, knives, chopsticks.
The princess cake is covered with marzipan, not fondant 😊
Thank you! I have no idea why I said fondant 🤦
@@aWanderlustForLife no problem! Easy mistake to make tbh 😊
@@aWanderlustForLife Maybe because you are american :D
@@tepsan meaning what?
@@bluebellbeatnik4945 Fondant is similar, but the recepie is slightly different, it is sometime used if one want a smoother finish on the cake, for example in making decoraive figures, but it is much more sensitive to moisture from the cake so it must be applied shortly before the cake is finished, unlike Marsipan that can be applied whan the cake is prepared. Fondant can have different tastes, like choccolate, etc. since it does not have much taste in it self, like marsipan, which is an active ingredient in the cake which is a part of the intended taste, fondant taste more like floor sugar without any added aromas. For example in France and Germany fondant is very popular on cakes, not so much in Sweden i think.
The kladdkaka is something you can very easily make at home and requires basically no effort. If you make it, serve it fresh out the oven with some vanilla ice cream. It's heavenly!
I need to try this!
As a swede I would suggest you try a Tunnbrödsrulle at Nyhetsgrillen (Kungsholmen). That's traditional swedish fastfood that has been developed a lot the last years to an extremely nice dish. There are other places too but that's the best one in central Stockholm i would say.
Thank you! I'll try it next time 🙂
@@aWanderlustForLifeDon't forget the only thing that matters when eating a Tunnbrödsrulle: RÄKSALLAD!!Shrimp sallad)😂
@@penttitapper as a swede i suggest trying shrimps on the west coast, only idiots eats it on the other side.
@@penttitapperMy go to is double sausage, shrimp sallad AND cucumber mayo (or minced pickled cucumber)
Indeed. Tunnbrödsrrulle is THE Swedish fast food. It's just awesome and is liked by all Swedes.
the best herring is fried like that and then pickled with tons of red onion.
A reason we can have kladdkaka in sweden is because our eggs don’t have salmonella. Don’t know how or why but we can eat raw eggs without worry.
Tip for next time you are in Stockholm, there is a restaurant called Sjätte Tunnan in Gamla Stan that serves authentic medieval dishes (the kind nobles ate not simple peasant food). It is not even commonly known by most locals, never seen any travel food channels cover it when they visit.
Ahhhhh. Thank you!!
Try the herring, you had on hard flat bread, with mashed potatoes, lingonberries and pickled cucumber and if possible melted butter. That's the traditional way to eat it. My favourite from that food cart you visited is "Specialare" containing two fried herrings and mash. - A sort of half size portion but enough anyway.
When you eat your mudcake - add some whipped cream and it brings your cake to a totally new level.
Your Princess Cake was a celebration to the new born princess Sibylla in the 1920's. Before this it was called just Green Cake. But is, next to a proper strawberry cake, decorated with whipped cream, the most Swedish cake there is. And our pride. Strawberry cake is mandatory at every midsummer feast.
The brown filling on your bisqvie is buttercream and cacao.
The filling in the biskvi is straigh up butter whiped with powdered sugar
Everything looks quite good! The meatballs, the cinnamon bun, and the princess cake all are items I'm sure I would quite enjoy!
It's definitely a foodie city! I can't wait to go back ☺️
The meatballs looks a bit Americanized, traditionally they are made much smaller, like half an inch in diameter. The same goes for the cinnamon rolls, quite common with those huge rolls in cafés, but that's not the traditional way
It's the way Pelikan usually serves them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For more traditional Swedish meatballs, I think Operakällarns Bakficka or Tennstopet is a safer bet. (Sometimes I REALLY miss Nils Emil's...)
@@Bleckman666 I've never really had meatballs in a restaurant, it's more of a home cook for me.
Man, it was a long time since I went to Pelikan or Tennstopet, I should do that the next time I come back to Stockholm
You should not miss to taste the reindeer saute with mashed potatoes and lingonberry, absolutely delicious with a slight taste of wild meat!
Highly recommended!
Hi! We didn't miss it, but also didn't film it because it was too dark and the sound wasn't going to work 😔 But it was a treat!
What you did miss was visiting the restaurang Aifur. They serve (what is believed to be) viking food. Beside the exellent menu you have the upportunety to taste axcellent mead. Mead is not beer, mead is vine made of honey.
Thank you! I'll add it for next time. Ice had lots of a mead in the US as there was a place that made it not far from where we lived. It's very cool and I love this history behind it. Thank you for sharing!
It is a very Larpy place and quite a tourist trap. I wouldn't call it authentically Swedish. But might be worth a visit for the mead.
You HAVE to try Smörgåstårta! It's AMAZING!!
Ohhh thanks for the tip!
The corrent name of the "biskvi" is actually "chokladbiskvi", which translates directly into "chocolate biscuit", because the Swedish word biskvi and the English word biscuit both come from the French word Biscuit.
jag har aldrig hört talat om ordet "biskvi", är det gammalt?
@@prageruwu69 Har används ialf sen 1905 då det var med i "Nordisk familjebok"
@@prageruwu69 Det är bara just denna som heter det i Sverige vad jag vet. Trodde verkligen att alla kände till dem! Om inte så har man missat något!!
4:20 Visit a fast food cart with a big sign that says freshly fried herring. Become disappointed that it is not pickled. (There are few eateries in Sweden that sell pickled herring as street food, it is probably more common in the Netherlands. Fried herring is the way to go.)
Kladdkaka should be served with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. Otherwise it gets a bit rich
Makes sense!
Anyone that coes to Stockholm should make a visit to Böderna Ohlsson Garlic and Shots, great bar with great music and great food, and its garlic in everything
You know, it was on our list and just didn't make it somehow 😞
YUM 😋 Stockholm looks awesome too 😲
It was an unexpected foodie destination! We went to so many amazing spots that we didn't film but made it in the Thatch guide. Including a couple Michelin recommend restaurants, burgers, and sushi 🤤
I saw another video of a Canadian couple visiting Sweden. They made the same horrible mistake! Visiting Sweden the wrong time of year... Swedes only want to be Swedes between May and September: that is heaven, but we pay for it the rest of the year. And Stockholm too! Cold is colder in Stockholm due to the sea-air. That moisture seeps through your clothes and you can't protect yourself. Writing this on May 26. Just four months of life left.
I wish that you are content with your life until now and that you can feel at peace, no angry
or afraid when your last day arrives.
Kladdkaka isn't that old. I actually think it came to Sweden in the early nineties or late eighties. Chocolateballs are a more traditional take on the concept of easy chocolate treats kids can make at home. Just a mix of plain oats, butter, cocoa powder and sugar and rolled in pearl sugar or coconut flarns.
Great job!
Oh, dear God. Is the Stockholm shrimp more to your liking. Gothenburgers are going to go ballistic...
Nice upload 🇸🇪 💛
Thanks so much!
nice video keep up the good work
the green layer of the princess is actually marsipan, not fondant!
I know 🤦 I have no idea why I said fondant.
@@aWanderlustForLife well it kind of looks the same so it makes sense!
May I ask why you didn't had coffee (or tea) to the pastries?
We usually did.
@@aWanderlustForLife You hide it well on camera though ;)
Yeah. The thing that I've been thinking about for a month now
@@rosamannen Var inte så spydig.
@@herrbonk3635 Det var ett skämt för tusan. du tror att det fanns något allvar bakom det?
The meatballs look a bit disappointing actually. Its not very common to make them that big. Part of the appeal of proper home made meatballs is the nice crust, and since you traditionally make the meatballs small, they have lots of crust to meat ratio, giving that great taste!
You are on the spot though, when you say the star of the dish is usually the sauce (or gravy, some might call it).
Snyggt ✌️
Did you try the smorgasboard, no idea how you write it, it's a sort of buffet with several small treats sweet and not sweet, it's some of the best things I eat! Try it! 👍
We did, just not this time. It's so hard to choose which foods making it in the video, but definitely that's a good one!
"smörgåsbord"
Good selection of different dishes! The "strömming" was maybe not your favourite though?
To bad you didn't try "renskav". But I obviously understand that you can't try it all.
And coffee (should be Swedish style coffee) is never as good as with some pastry or other!
"Vete-katten" is sort of a pun. Means cat of wheat. But is also an idiomatic expression for not knowing, approximately: knoweth the cat.
Yeah, I think I just like strömming prepared differently. We had herring two other times and they were good. I just don't understand that one stall. Is it usually good? I do so much research before these videos that I'm very surprised when something doesn't live up to expectation.
Thank you for the other information! I find it so helpful for when I go back ☺️
@@aWanderlustForLife actually there's a difference between "strömming" and "sill". In English they will both be referred to as herring. Strömming is the smaller native to the Baltic sea. Will be served fried most the times. Or fermented in nortern Sweden: "surströmming". More rarely smoked - "böckling". The pickeled herring will normally be the Atlantic bigger type, referred to as sill. Which could also be served fried, btw. A special sort of pickeled herring is the "matjessill" (matjes is a Dutch loneword, the Swedish matjessill is allegedly very different from the Dutch though), more salty than other pickeled herring. Matjessill is my favourite. Oh well, you didn't even ask for this info, but there it is! Thank you for introducing our cuisine to the world!
I really appreciate this information! I want to learn and I want to help others learn as well. Thank you SO MUCH for the explanation 😊
Yeah, strange country, strange people, strange food!?
In anyway you tryed it out in our capital city on good resturantes/cafes so you got the best of it!
Stekt strömming, (fried baltic herring was former a poor mans diet), now its a delicasy!
Then you have to try "inlagd sill", its cured atlantic herring, a staple on traditional swedish dishes!
nja real meatballs are done best in the country side
Kladdkaka is one of the first thing most children learn to make here in Sweden.
I used to bake a lot and now I must try and make this!
Sweden ois a great Life here in sweden
I love Swedish fish ( candy ) 😅
That is something we don't have in Sweden. Wait, I think IKEA are selling them now. But only at IKEA.
Biskvi has got a butter cream inside.. NOT whipped chocolate cream..
4:44 crispbread
Any tourist should try Kebab at Palmyra!
Kebab is made of slaughter waste, worst meat ever.
Try Kalops, it is a traditional Swedish dish 👍🏻
that is actually not per se a princess cake, is per definition an opera cake. The princess cake does not have the raspberry filling. But then again, very few of my fellow swedes know the difference...
This is some new thing. It has been called princess cake all my life. I understand why but I think it's a bit ridiculous to call it Opera cake nowadays. The original from Jenny Åkerströms book "Prinsessornas kokbok" was called green cake and did not have raspberry jam.
Jenny Åkerström ran a household school for young girls in Stockholm during the first half of the 20th century. Among the students were the princesses Margaretha, Märtha and Astrid. I had princess cake without jam at pretentious bakeries and it is just annoying and disappointing (I didn't know as I am not living in Sweden).
Sorry for the rant.
@@Microsization As you mentione yourself, the Jenny Åkerström book (the princess cook book) recepie does not contain jam, hense "Princesstårta" is without jam. Quite simple. But again, very few of my fellow swedes know this. Not a new thing. A very old thing. However collective memory is a strange thing and nowadays very few people seems to know/remember this. So again, a very old and traditional thing that is being forgotten rather than "a new thing"
searched for opera cake and it definitely did not look like a princess cake. and the jam gives it that extra bit of flavor.
@@PUTDEVICE What ever! I prefer it with jam too, but it is still not a princess cake per definition. Sorry man
it was probably horseradish that you had in your gravad lax sandwish not mustard
Nah it was hovmästarsås 😊
I'ts not a kladdcake, with no cream
i hope the cinnamon buns are nicer than ikea's. i couldn't eat ikea's it was awful.
Generally, Bakeries will be better than IKEA
To eat fresh seafood in Stockholm is impossible due it comes from Gothenburg and has to be loaded on trucks and be transported 430km.
u cray u cant rate a whole bulle after just only one bite??
8.20 That you supose to eat warmed up and with cream... as you take that is must taste horrible
Why can't Americans use knife and fork?
Why do people have to comment on how other people eat?
@@aWanderlustForLife it was a serious question. I've met a lot of americans both in Sweden and in other countries and they only use the fork. 🤔
Personally, I use whatever I want to in each case. i use a knife and fork when I feel it's needed.
You are not supposed to eat the Biskvi with utensils anyway. Stop being so judgemental fellow swede.
@@annicaesplund6613Okay. Consider me another "American (we capitalize both nationality and ethnicity) you've met".
I'm known for eating burritos with a knife and a fork 😊
Americans are pretty flexible with spoons, forks, knives, chopsticks.
Those meatballs are to big.