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SWEDEN’S RETRO ROLL

There’s a lot of nostalgia associated with pastry and cake baking in Sweden. And few dishes evoke it better than Budapestbakelse — or Budapest cake.

Day to day in Sweden, we make cinnamon buns and home bakes such as the chocolate kladdkaka. But for special occasions, only fancier cream cakes will do. Budapest cake is a type of Swiss roll, made from a sheet of baked hazelnut meringue, filled with

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