Cereal vs. Chocolate

One of the things that baffled me in the US was the grocery stores, and more specifically; the seemingly endless variety of one single product. Take cereal for exemple, I remember walking into a grocery store in Connecticut for the first time and actually had to take a picture of the cereal aisle! Rows and rows of different cereals when at home all we had was maybe five varieties.

Today I found myself in my local grocery store and realized, Sweden might still not have as many types of cereal as America, but just look at the chocolate aisle!!!

Dark chocolate varieties in everything from chili and ginger to sea salt and almonds

Milk chocolate, the plain is actually a favorite of mine (beats Hersey's by miles!) but these bars come filled with creamy nougat, raspberry yogurt or cookies and cream as well!

Of course you got to cater to your audience!

Perfect Snack!

One of the best winter snacks has got to be fried apples! So easy to make and a great substitute for apple pie if you don't have the patience to bake one :)

Just fry the sliced apples until they're a little soft, add some cinnamon and serve with vanilla yogurt!

Hot chocolate the Swedish way

Today is one of those days; the wind is howling, the rain is beating hard on the windows and the sky is just grey.
In short, perfect hot chocolate weather! For some reason, I almost never made hot chocolate in LA, I always bought it, but being back in Sweden it felt perfectly natural to turn on the stove and make a cup :)

To make traditional Swedish hot chocolate, you mix cocoa and sugar with a little bit of cream in a cup and pour hot milk over and it's so yummy!

Christmas Treats!

This week is completely dedicated to baking and making candy :)
Over the weekend we made "Lussekatter", they are sweet saffron buns, tradionally eaten for Lucia and Christmas.

 

And today, I decided to give Peppermint Bark a try! I had never heard of this wonderful treat until I went to America, but now I got mhy whole family hooked on it after bringing tins of it home every winter :)

Cinnamon Buns!!!

Yesterday, me and my mom spent hours in the kitchen baking hundreds of cinnamon buns! I've really missed my mom so it was great having a lazy day at home, just talking and baking, and of course: Eating the result :)

Crushing the spices

They're starting to take shape...

First batch is ready!

Enough to last us through the winter, haha!