SCANDINAVIAN BAKING

From the leading authority on Scandinavian baking, here are recipes with a modern twist, photographed on location and suffused with 'hygge' - meaning cosiness, or relaxing with friends over good food and drink. Crispbreads abound, as do savoury tarts and recipes from the smorrebrod; the sweet baking includes a recipe for every kind of Danish pastry, a cookie for every occasion, and mouth-watering layer cakes, coffee cakes and cream buns. The Midsummer and Christmas festivities in Scandinavia are built around the making of cakes, cookies and breads of all sorts, and the baking celebrations of both seasons are included in the book.