How do we prepare for travel?
By baking the country’s popular pastry! This time around, as we can’t contain our excitement for Norway, the traveling dad baked us no less than the world’s best cake!
Kvæfjordkake is popularly referred to as ‘the world’s best’. The key ingredients are meringue, vanilla cream and almonds. This sponge cake is known and enjoyed throughout Norway and can be considered as Norway’s national cake.
Imagine fresh eggs white used to make the delectable, chewy, almost crispy, almond flavoured meringue. The fresh egg yolks are then used to make the sponge base and custard filling.
The key ingredient is eggs. The whites are used to make the crisp, chewy almond meringue, and the yolks to make both the sponge base and the custard filling.
The cake originates from Kvæfjord, an area close to Vesterålen and Lofoten in the north of Norway. Despite much of the area being mountains and fjords, it’s known for agriculture and farming, strawberries and eggs come in plenty!
So, how did our Kvæfjordkake fair with actual cake we got from Drøbak ,Norway? Well, not far and it didn’t disappoint. We have the becoming of a great chef in Norway! Hospitality recruiters, hear ye! Hear ye!
Have you tried Kvæfjordkake? Well, did that slice of heaven live up to the hype?
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