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Swedish cookies, tarts, and pies / Jan Hedh ; photography by Ulf Widell; translation by Stine Skarpnes Osttveit.

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Skyhorse ; Constable & Robinson [distributor], c2012.

Cooking, Swedish.

9781616088262 (hc.)

239 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Includes index.

Basic recipies -- Almond pastries -- Biskvier and macaroons -- Petits-fours and tea-breads -- Cripsy biscuits -- Wafter pastries -- Meringue -- Cocnut and hazelnuts -- Butterdough pastries -- Petits-choux pastries -- Soft cakes -- Swedish cookies -- Christmas cakes .

For forty-five years, renowned pastry chef Jan Hedh has been baking cookies, cakes, tarts, and pies. Over a lifetime immersed in the dessert traditions of his native Sweden, he has refined the art of baking to produce flawless recipes like the ones collected here. This sumptuous compendium features 277 kinds of baked goods, including recipes for classic Swedish desserts like almond puff pastry, coconut macaroons, petit fours, and traditional Christmas cookies, as well as a full array of muffins, fruit tarts, and cakes. Now you can re-create all of the flavors of the Nordic dessert palate, from marzipan to candied citrus to rich chocolate, with these amazing sweets that are perfect for sharing with friends over tea or coffee.

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