As a child growing up in central North Dakota in the 1980s, I was surrounded by Norwegian sweets: krumkake, spritz cookies, fattigman, rosettes, and of course, lefse, the potato-based flatbread spread ...

Rosettes, krumkake, spritz, sandbakkelse, fattigmand... The list of traditional Christmas baking goes on and on. Much of it in this area was inspired by Norwegian settlers. They brought their love of ...

A plate of cookies made by members of Daughters of Norway Embla Lodge No. 2 Peter Haley Staff file, 2015 To score Norwegian cookies at the annual Nordic Festival, you have to be scrappy. And arrive ...

Most of them are also fairly labor-intensive. And with cookies like Sandbakkels requiring two cups of butter, “we don’t talk calories,” Hills said. The cookies are also not exclusively Norwegian. Many ...

Grand Forks lodge members share various Norwegian cookies with their friends and family not only with their own Christmas celebrations but also through bake sales to fundraise for the lodge.

When I was young, my family had our traditional favorites we baked every year, molasses kringles, cinnamon sticks, Mexican wedding cakes and sugar cookies. We were not of Scandinavian heritage, so we ...