Love sandwich cake that contains liver pate and chopped pickle or what it's called in English, between the layers,. And pressed pineapple juice on the bread. Shrimp, cheese, salad and ham on top. Mom learned how to make it when she worked at a supermarket.
yepp, in the version I make I have tuna salad in one layer, and the other a ham mixed with mayonaise (my mom used horse meat ("hamburgarkött"), which I hated so I use regular meat). Then crème fraîche + mayo around the top with lots of shrimp, cucumber, dill, and eggs on it. When I worked in "delikatessen" at a grocery store with catering we had several types of smörgårdstårta, ex. classic, salmon & shrimp, italian, roastbeef etc. Classic had ham on the sides (I prefer sallad on the sides, or egg + cucumber. The most popular one at that catering place was salmon and shrimp, which to me feels more classic, but I guess it isn't. I'm kind of sad that most places that sell smörgårdstårta now sell it and fill it only with skaagen. It's nice, but it doesn't really feel that great? I like all the different tastes mixed together
I once had a meat version where the main star of the show was a layer of ground up beef jerky in rydbergs chicken/curry baguettesallad Sounds insane but the tiny chunks of beef jerky just elevated the entire thing and left me enjoying the aftertaste for a while
First thing, this is just a suggestion on how to make it. There is a million different ways to make it. Most well stocked stores have them and bakeries and some cafe´ s
Yup. My family has people who are either allergic to, or just don't like various seafood, so we usually make one with things like ham and leverpastej (liver paté), instead of the shrimp/prawns, crayfish and other seafood shown in the video.
Think its fair to say that 99% of all Swedes had one for their birthday or at a birthday celebration. Its just one of those standard things along with prinsesstårta; princess cake. 🙂 You could definitely make one on your own. Just pick whatever you like & assemble!
But if u want a really good one you need to go to a proper place.
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@@henrikssonalbin92, my local ICA sells some of the best smörgåstårta I've ever had, and I've worked in a kitchen. So you _can_ find good smörgåstårta in the grocery store as well... it all depends on who's making it.
I used to work in the delikatess at an ICA and made the smörgårdstårta, and I'm kinda mad at myself for not memorizing it bc it was so good. Wish all ICAs/grocery stores had a proper delikatess. The stores closest to me barely have a delikatess, and the selection is so meh. If they don't have picksalami it's no good LOL
And pizza to i guess? But sandwich cake is frome Sweden and pizza frome Italy .Sima is frome Finland and i would'nt write that we have that to .. please!
@@michaelhammar2778 all they said was they have those cakes there too, jesus christ you make it a bigger deal than what it is lol, you forget finland have lots of swedish influence since WAAAY back, just like sweden have finnish influences too from pretty much same time
@@OlafPawbelt Oh please shut up! What' s wrong with commenting on something you obviously does'n't know anything about.Fact is that many finns are ignorant and thinking that its finnish thing .The finnish influence in Sweden is very insignificant !
We Swedes would often have smörgåstårta for celebrations, school graduations and confirmations. You have a ton of variations, everything from seafood to meat, you can make it a couple of days ahead and decorate it on the celebration day. It´s so yummy :) I prefer to do my own but you can buy quality ones at a patisserie or regular ones in in a grocery store sometimes. You should definitely try a couple in different flavors.
Homemade is always best🤤 Never seen this before now! I heard of it… Also in Tull program (borderguards) Today it popped up in my feed! Have actually forgotten all about it - I must say IM TOTALLY IN!!!! 😋🤤 Maybe we should import that dish here in Denmark ?🤷🏼♂️ Danes would Love it💯 I was in Helsingborg this wedensday with my dad - We had fish’n chips, not Long walk north from sundbusserne ! 😋
@@emmagunnerblad6264 Asked my daughter after watching the video, She went ew 😝 Im very sure my son-in-law would Love it!!! 💯 I might have to smuggle one out of Sweden… 😜
Smörgåstårta is one of the best things out there, when done right. There are so many variants of it though, I personally have never had this version. I think my older sister makes the best ones and she crushes either "cheese doodles" or "cheez balls", and put it on the outside before putting on the cold cuts. And the cold cuts are individual, you can either do this with salmon, or with smoked ham, or roast beef, rolled up slices of cheese, tomatoes, whatever. Anything you like can go on there, just make sure it marries well in flavors. When you come visit Sweden, make sure you try a piece! Store-bought can be fine, but honestly, the homemade ones are almost always the best.
Smörgåstårta is kind of Swedens unofficial national dish! My mom has a special recipe with I do quite often. I have a container with the mix you have in the middle in the fridge (my mix is mayonnaise, crème-fraishe cucumber, apple, leek and canned tuna) then I can assemble a sandwich when I want to. Most of the time I don’t garnish it but sometimes I do and then I take kind of what I have at home. Salad, cucumbers, eggs, salmon, prawns. You can buy smörgåstårta att most Swedish supermarkets and versions of a smörgåstårta, like räkmackor and so on. Are available at a lot of bakeries/lunch restaurants Smörgåstårta. Is something we often serve when we host bigger parties like birthdays, graduation, studenten and so on. There is actually a movie about a man who arranged to make the worlds longest Smörgåstårta. The movie is called Tårtgeneralen (the cake-general) For a great and not overly expensive experience of the Swedish smörgårdsbord. Book a trip on any of the faeries going between Stockholm and Helsinki (Finland) on bird they have amazing smörgårdsbord. And there’s a lot of fun things to do onboard and you get to see the Swedish archipelago
If you place those bread squares exactly the same, they will separate because the cracks will be in the same location. By overlapping it will hold together. Professional cakes are made from one piece of bread per layer, round or square, and the size depends on how many people the cake is for.
It's supposed to soak into the bread, it's what makes the Smörgåstårta juicy and creamy. If you like leeks, you can swap the red onions for that instead.
Gunnar Sjödahl lives in Östersund and has worked as a pastry chef most of his life. He was an apprentice at a pastry shop in Härnösand when one day in 1965 he got an idea for a new type of dish that he started experimenting with. When he finished his five-year apprenticeship, he moved to Östersund and started working at Wedemark's pastry shop. There he launched his project - the Swedish sandwich cake.
If you haven't tasted crayfish, I suggest you try to get yourself invited to a Swedish crayfish party! They typically happen somewhere between the second half of August to mid-October. You will - put the whole crayfish in your mouth to suck some juice out of it - Meticulously remove the shell, - Eat some as they are - Put a bunch of them on a slice of warm toasted bread, and have some mayonnaise on it. - Drink beer - Drink snaps, shots of traditional flavored scandinavian spirits like Östgöta Sädes, Hallands Fläder, Porsbrännvis, Bäska Droppar (it means bitter drops, this is an acquired taste), and many others. - Sing traditional Swedish drinking songs, the lyrics are mostly about getting drunk and misbehaving - Wear silly hats - Have LOTS of fun!
You never getting tierd of smörgåstårta. If you haven´t tried it you miss out on something really speciall. There is speciall places that speciallize doing them. Also many supermarkets do them or some older typy of caffee´s called Konditori
@@Skege1000 it's herritage is from sweden, look it up. But we both share pretty much a lot of things with eachother so we influence eachother, ignore michael, she is just angry for no reason. I bet she is fråm skåne = fake sweden
I have eaten smörgåstårta on basically every larger family gathering here in Finland, and last year I decided to try to make my own. It turned out delicious! I didn't use shrimp though, I went for a more salmon-based smörgåstårta. I highly recommend trying to make one! And the bread edges that you cut off: soak them in garlic oil for a couple of hours and then roast them in the oven. They become yummy snacks 😋
When it comes to Swedish sandwich cake, you can do whatever you like! Bread, Fillings, toppings... just go nuts. Just let the cake set for a while before you put topping on it. I once ordered a SWC for 12 people for my birthday at this amazing cafe we have in town, and they made the most beautiful cake ever. It weigh 22 pounds and was large as f... Tasted amazing! Be safe
I know that caterers offer Sandwich cake when catering weddings, funerals, parties and so on, but in my family we always make them ourselves. You can find pieces of sandwuch cake, just as you can find pieces of princess cake in larger stores, and I presume most bakeries can offer them, but sandwich cake isn't usually a restaurant food.
It is so incredibly good!! We used to have it on festive occasions. In Sweden you can find it in many delicatessens or if you want it really fancy you can order it in such shops or catering. Try it, it will exceed your expectations.
This is my favorite food in the whole world. I have it every birthday of mine, and like to get it more often to! Some resturants serve it, depend on the style of resturants ofc, but if you get it at a resturant you don't get a whole cake, you get a square slice. Many supermarkets make em too, like inhouse, not from factory, usually quite pricey, you can order them between 4 to 20 slice size. The 20 slize sizes are BIG cakes, you order them usually atleast 2 days before (Since it needs atleast 1 night to set too), but shrimp shouldn't be served for too long either, so they usually are always made the day before serving, never earlier or later.
Yeah dont like eggs (have no problems withthem in recepies just dont like boiled eggs) and slightly alergic towards seafoods like shrip and crayfish - but cheese and ham or salmanon cakes exsists so it is usaly not a problem.
ICA is one of the biggest foodchains oin Sweden and most ICA stores sell smörgåstårta. In many of them you can even buy just one piece for one person. Or a big one for 12-16 people. It is a sswedish invention and I can´t imagine why the world hasn´t taken it to their hearts a long time ago. I think it´s super delicious and I sometimes make one myself for family and friends.
Many stores also sell "landgångsbröd" (pier bread) which is used for building smörgåstårta. It's just normal toast bread but it's cut along the length instead. You get fewer seems when assembling the cake then. Smörgåstårta is sold in most larger supermarkets. I believe there is a good chance to find some at any month of the year.
Grocery stores in Sweden usually have them but in a smaller size (good for 2-3 people). They come in variants with meat (roast beef, smoked ham, brie cheese etc.), and one which is seafood based (with smoked salmon, shrimp etc.) If you need a bigger size smörgåstårta they're made to order with a minimum of 7-8 pieces/slices.
A lot of different varieties on ingredients for smörgåstårta, in our family we do spinach and smoked salmon filling with a bread that is a mix between white bread and whole wheat bread, with mayonnaise of course and decorations is tomatoes, cucumber, sallad, lemon, shrimps, caviar and egg (bolied lagom).
The best smörgåstårta (except for home made ones obviously) is sold at, in my opinion, bake shops. Shrimp have more pronounced legs, while prawns have legs that are almost undetectable. Prawns also have claws on three of their five pairs of legs, while shrimp only have claws on two of their five pairs of legs. In addition, prawns have a longer thorax and a smaller abdomen in comparison to shrimp.
Bigger ordinary grocery stores usually sell them so they are not difficult to find here. Also bakeries might make them on order, but they are very expensive which is why they are also often made at home. And they come with a bit of variations for the ingredients both inside and on it, so yes you absolutely don't need to get raw onion in your sandwich cake if you don't like it.
i make those for my birthday every year. so tasty. you can buy them at most grocerystores( whole cake) and cafes. another sandwish you should look into trying is räkmacka
a lot of supermarkets sell sandiwsh cakes where you can buy whole cakes or slices. If you're going to stockholm Hötorgshallen got a few stands that sell them by the slice too. Smörgostårta can be expensive so be preperad for that!
Well sorted grocery stores makes them and sell. Tastes really good with a cup of tea. Then there is "landgångar" also wich are like rectangle shaped sandwiches.
The best thing with "smörgåstårta" is that YOU make with stuff YOU enjoy. It is your cake!! Use bread of your choise. Make/use spreads to your taste. As many layer as you like. After a night in the fridge: whisk philadelfiacheese and a bit of creme fraiche (season if you want to, salt and peppar) til its nice and fluffy- makes it easy to spread all over the cake. Now you decorate just as much or little as you like. Remember: it is you cake so you make it to your taste!!! You can buy this form of cake in every food store or bakery. They will all be diffrent.
I make one a few times a year. Smörgåstårta is also perfekt for days you missed lunch and also need a fika. Most cafés has smörgåstårta. With seafood, meat or just with veggies. You can order a whole or buy a prefered pice. If you want a whole, tip, order days before.
Smörgåstårta is most often ordered by catering for birthdays, graduation or similar events. It can have other ingredients than shown in the clip, but usually it's delicious
You can buy it, used to get one from a really nice place where a large cake cost like 700-800sek, so ~100kr per person. Most common is a roast beef or salmon/shrimp one.
I love to have white wine to my smörgåstårta. You can get smörgåstårta in so many places if you don’t want to make it yourself. Usually they have small portions in the large food stores, but you can also order it so that they make it according to your taste and the size of your party.
You can buy them in most places, you can order them at many large supermarkets like ICA, Hemköp or Coop with a day or two advance, or if you go to a specialty bakery shop they might be able to make one within an hour. Since they perish in 2-3 days even refrigerated, and you can't freeze them, you will almost never find one pre-made to buy right off.
Most well stocked stores probably carry 1-2 portion pieces, I know my local ICA does. And most bigger ICAs (and I assume other bigger stores that have delis) you can order them. They also come in a variety of flavors, seafood like this one. Roastbeef, italian meats and sausages... The list goes on
Lokal bakeries can sometimes sell Smörgåstårta. You can have a Smörgåståra in the frige 3-4 days. With every day the flavor gets richer and richer. A 2 day old Smörgåstårta tastes the best imo.
There's a restaurant called "Vardagslyx", (everyday luxuary translated), in the city of Örnsköldsvik in Sweden. Who specializes in slices of Smörgåstårta, and they are glorious!
I live in Guthenburg, we have fresh shrimps/prawns and our smörgåstårta is the best. You can buy it in stores. There are many diferent ones, some have cheese and ham or rostbeef and potatoesallad. You have to taste one. Ilove to have mine with chrimps and crabsallat some tuna and eggs. Where I live we have several fantastic places to buy smörgåstårta. They are expensive but if you are doing it yourself it wont be much cheeper.
After scrolling through some comments I realised that roastbeef-smörgåstårta is my favourite, but I do actually like almost all of them. Just a nice thing to eat. And as some people have mentioned, yes it gets even better two days after it was made.
This recipe did not use "landgångsbröd" translated "gangway bread". It is the same type of bread but longer. That way you can alternate the direction you lay them down and have the cake stay together better, sort of like bricks. Also it often has a layer of a darker type of bread.
They are common as "celbratory foods" and are usually served as lunch at a birthday party or at the workplace if your employer wants to celebrate something. You can usually order in bakeries or larger grocery stores, but I would recommend going to a good bakery. It might be hard to get just one serving tho, they are usually sold whole. So get a bunch of friends over and have one! And as stated, they are very versatile, can be made with cold cuts of meats and can easily be made vegetarian or vegan. I like the onion as the sharpness cuts the fattiness of the mayo but you can vary toppings and fillings a lot. Would recommend a ham filling with a bit of horseradish myself!
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At some bigger food stores, like ICA Maxi you can buy sandwich cake in portion form or like a small cake. They make these themselves.
They do vary in quality, so get a piece from a known good bakery, not a supermarket. Raw onion gets mild in the mix, the over night thing does it, you will love it.
Love to see my country through your eyes. Smörgåstårta is super popular and common. You can easy both buy them and make them. Every bakery, coffee shop of bigger size, big food store have them.
You can buy smörgåstårta at your local food store as well as make them at home. The ones that you make yourself tastes better. You can also go to a confectionery and order one, and theese tastes amazing! They come in lots of different variations like ham and cheese etcetera
There are versions based on whipped cream and horse radish, others full of tuna and creme fraiche. Every ingredient is 100% optional and as long as you can make the case that it LOOKS like some kind of cake and has enough sandwich-y ingredients you get the smörgåstårta stamp. Heck, make 2+ open-faced sandwiches, stack them and call it smörgåstårta. As long as you TRY make it tasty, it is actually hard to completely fail.
Love smörgåstårta specially when you have liverpastaj in it. I know some store has bigger pieces of bread in freezer but works so well with the small ones also. Last time I got one, I got it from the local food store.
Testa lever pastej (bredbar m tryffel), bostongurka, mayonaise, mixa och använd som fyllning mellan 2 brödlager. Använd halvmån format bröd (kommer inte på namnet just nu, men det norrländska med ren som märke). Som andra lager fyllning kan man ta mimosa sallad, 3 lagret din favorit potatis sallad. Brödet har förmärkta lagom stora bitar i mönstret. Bred hela skapelsen med cottage cheese. Toppa med rökt skinka, rostbiff, kalkon samt halvade körsbärs tomater, ägghalvor, tunna gurkskivor (anv. osthyveln och sätt runt kanten).
You can get it at most grocery stores or some bakeries. We Swedes have it for graduations and bigger celebrations mostly in the summer but it is available all year around in many forms and fillings variety. There are thus that are based in hame and have tropical fruits. There are those with Italian style with airdry hame and more Mediterranean fillings. Most of the ingredients you will find in the bigger grocery stores, some older recipes are mostly cand stuff that are mixed together with fresh veggies as garnish. All of them are made with bread/cake Bottoms and have lots of mayo, wiped cream, and soft cheese layers with different toppings and filling mixes. I think it got popular because it is easy to prep before a party and you could fead many with the cake. It was a staple both my grandmothers made just as often as there was regular kake. It also often shows up when there is a wake or after a funeral get-together.
Like others have said, there are hundreds of variants as you can exchange ingredients and theme (more seafood or more meat or both?). Smörgåstårta is glorious, though. It's elaborate enough to be festive, and "foody" enough to be enjoyed with good conscience (in contrast to a sugar-laden regular cake). It's best enjoyed together with a lager or perhaps a dry white wine.
You can get a smörgåstårta at most cafes all over Sweden. At ICA and coop if they have deli counters. Ask any swede about it, and they'll tell you where their favourite place. Also, it has to set overnight, or the bread will be dry.
This days I would say you pre-order them from a bakery if you want to have cake for a party taking place at lunch-time. The reason you pre-order them is because they need to set in the refrigurator. I would argue overnight is even a bit tight. If the bread soakes up the filling it staays together better, and you dont want to have dry bread in it when you eat it. Basically this i a cake that gets better with time. Running joke is it is a kake for "gubbar" (mature old men) so it is more common if you are celebrating an old-ish man. But also as I stated previously, this is a combination of lunch and cake, sop if you hare hosting a party at lunch-time this is an option to serving lunch with cake as an desert.
Looooove a good smörgåstårta!!! You can find them in good cafés or in assorted stores. And yes, it's a lot of mayonnaise 😅 and it's not uncommon to also decorate with cheese, ham and grapes to name a few. Other variations of smörgåstårta is tuna, roast beef or veggie.
We have this tradition (as I guess many familys worldwide do, so not that unique) that the birthday"child" gets to dictate what we eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The ONLY thing my sons (14 and 18) wants is this. I really do think we could skip presents as long as they get to eat this. They would kick my arse if I didn't do this for them on their birthday. HOWEVER! Doing this for 12-15 people, seeing thait contains; praws, crayfish, gravlax/smoked salmon, fishroe, dried ham etc. etc. It's not the cheapest stuff around. But it is soo good 🙂
Jag är 53 och när morsan frågar vad jag vill ha på min födelsedag. Smörgåstårta blir det till svar. Gillar Köttbullar och Leverpastej på min. Leverpastej är inget jag normalt gillar men på smörgåstårta är det pricken över i-et. Men "smaken är som baken" som de säger.
Smörgåstårta is very much up to your liking how you do it. There is the most common i would say which is with egg, shrimp and smoked salmon. You can make one with cold cuts like ham, roastbeef. Some have a paste made of liver some dont. It's basically just stacked white bread with some kind of mayonnaise based spread and then what ever filling you want in between and topped with a ton of amazing toppings like meats, seafood, fish and fruits and the best part about it is if you get leftovers it's even better the next day.
Å in Swedish sound more like O than and A. You can find Sandwich cake in stores and old fashion coffee shops and they comes in different flavours. I worked for 1 year making smörgåstårta. In my town there is place that has smörgåstårtebuffet a few times of year.
the core of a sandwich cake is mayo and high fat content fermented milk product (sour cream, creme freche) and bread. the rest is up to you what you want to put in. they key part is that the bread needs to be moist. some will spay lemon juice over the bread to make it proper soak it in and be moist
You can basically buy smörgåstårta at any Cafe in Sweden and I think almost every Swede can make it for you if you ask. There are also versions of smörgåstårta that are cooked, obviously with slightly different ingredients (melted cheese, ham, salami etc.) but that's more of a modern interpretation of it.
Wait a minute, never had crayfish?! It might be time for you to research "Kräftskiva". It's like the most swedish tradition we got after midsommar/midsummer. :D Make a video reacting to Kräftskiva please. :)
They are sold pretty much everywhere, in grocery stores, in cafes, even some bakeries have them, catering stores have them for sure. However, there are a thousand different variations so you can't dismiss them if you don't like the first one you taste. The one made here looked damn good and is one of the more classic ones. Swedes love onions, we have onions in everything, both raw and not raw. So you will have problems if you don't like onion, note though that it is red onion that is used here, it is almost always used raw, it tastes quite different from yellow onion, I would almost describe it as having a bit of an apple taste. Very typical food when, for example, your employer offers food when something special has happened, someone retires, the holidays begin, or the company has made a good quarter. But also very typical to have when you invite large groups of friends, acquaintances and friends, think baptisms, funerals, birthday parties with many guests. They can be made iprincip any size.
I actually LOVE this. And I dont est fish. When I did I didnt like fish, but I loved smörgåstårta. You can buy it in some traditional cafés I think, and stores.
Smörgåstårta has many variants. Crayfish is not that common. My mom doesn't have that. I think she just puts liver paté between the bread. But I think the stuff that covers it is simple quite simple. But there are shrimps and salmon on the cake, usually. You could put roast beef, smoked ham, and so instead. And some salad, vegetables, or fruits, What you usually have on the standardized smörgåsbord.
The best part of Scandinavian Sandwich cakes are the variety! They can be - anything - ! Fish, red and white meats, game, vegetables/fruits or the mix of these! They can be more or less cheesy. Ceram cheese, hard cheese.. Wetter or drier.. White, dark, special (as long as it's fluffy/soft!) breads.. You name it!
A well made smörgåstårta is such a guilty pleasure. It's rich, savory and just.. It's fantastic. If you go to Sweden, just Google where you can get the best smörgåstårta close by. A local bakery is usually your best bet. Sometimes supermarkets like Ica, Hemköp or Coop make their own inhouse and they're usually really solid.
Smörgåstårta is glorious, and so customizable! Don't like seafood? Make one with egg salad or ham salad instead. Vegetarian? Just add different vegetarian friendly fillings and toppings. Lactose intolerant? Use lactose free options. Gluten intolerance/allergy? Use gluten free bread. Don't like mayo? Use cream cheese or Swedish "mjukost" instead. Want to make it more healthy or lower GI? Use whole grain bread or protein bread instead of white bread. There's honestly a smörgåstårta for most palates and dietary needs/preferences. It's so festive and great option for feeding many people during some celebration or gathering. Seriously, more countries need to try Smörgåstårta XD Smörgåstårta can be made at home, but it can be more difficult than it looks when it comes to making it look good. A lot of people will pick up Smörgåstårta from a bakery or café or the bakery section of grocery stores. There's usually some standard smaller ones available to just pick up, and you can also pre-order if wanting a larger and/or customized smörgåstårta. A café in my town makes smörgåstårta to order, and they're absolutely amazing! I'm not even a huge fan of Smörgåstårta a lot of the time as I don't eat fish and I'm not a big fan of seafood (except for shrimp) and definitely don't eat any kind of caviar or fish roe (which is common toppings and in fillings on many smörgåstårta).
I don't think I've been to many funerals where they didn't serve smörgåstårta, followed by prinsesstårta (and since I have a huge amount of older relatives I have been to many many funerals). It is also quite common to have a layer of some kind of liver paté...ish, and ham. Homemade smörgåstårta is sooo good.
We almost always buy, not make. You can buy it in many places. In some you have to tell them in a couple of days in advance. In some deli counters in big grosery stores you kan by a slice for one person (normaly at lunch)
Hey Dwayne. If ever you visit Sweden and want to try an awsome smörgåstårta... You visit Örebro and Smörgåsbutiken... its really my favourite place, and that many in Sweden travel to experience. Or you can do with any bakery. But beweere, If they dont make sinnamon rolls or smörgåstårta. They really not a real bakery. Peace!
In Finland there's always sandwich cake at funerals and weddings and other big family gatherings. Usually people make it at home and one is a fish cake and the other is a meat cake. I don't like the fish one but I love the meat sandwich cake.
(S) - There are thousands of variations "Sandwich cake" everyone has their preferences! But the "Smörgåstårtan" must be in a class with "smörgårdsbord" and Meatballs. The "sandwich cake" can be served at funerals and weddings and everything in between. Uniquely!
My favourite sandwich cake is made with cured salmon and prawns in the layers. And whipped cream, some mayo and mix with a lot of grated horseradish. Then spread out the cream in between on the layers and on the top. Garnished with plenty of prawns, topped with dill, cucumber, egg- and lemon slices. I make the cake myself. 😋😋
also, sandwich cake can be made in many different ways, it doesn't have to have the ingredients shown in this video
You can find this cake in supermarkets, cafés… like everywhere
Hard boiled egg
love the meat version. ham, roastbeef, chicken sometimes, with horseraddish cream, and so on. sooo yummy!
Love sandwich cake that contains liver pate and chopped pickle or what it's called in English, between the layers,. And pressed pineapple juice on the bread. Shrimp, cheese, salad and ham on top. Mom learned how to make it when she worked at a supermarket.
yepp, in the version I make I have tuna salad in one layer, and the other a ham mixed with mayonaise (my mom used horse meat ("hamburgarkött"), which I hated so I use regular meat). Then crème fraîche + mayo around the top with lots of shrimp, cucumber, dill, and eggs on it. When I worked in "delikatessen" at a grocery store with catering we had several types of smörgårdstårta, ex. classic, salmon & shrimp, italian, roastbeef etc. Classic had ham on the sides (I prefer sallad on the sides, or egg + cucumber. The most popular one at that catering place was salmon and shrimp, which to me feels more classic, but I guess it isn't. I'm kind of sad that most places that sell smörgårdstårta now sell it and fill it only with skaagen. It's nice, but it doesn't really feel that great? I like all the different tastes mixed together
I once had a meat version where the main star of the show was a layer of ground up beef jerky in rydbergs chicken/curry baguettesallad
Sounds insane but the tiny chunks of beef jerky just elevated the entire thing and left me enjoying the aftertaste for a while
First thing, this is just a suggestion on how to make it. There is a million different ways to make it.
Most well stocked stores have them and bakeries and some cafe´ s
Yup.
My family has people who are either allergic to, or just don't like various seafood, so we usually make one with things like ham and leverpastej (liver paté), instead of the shrimp/prawns, crayfish and other seafood shown in the video.
Think its fair to say that 99% of all Swedes had one for their birthday or at a birthday celebration. Its just one of those standard things along with prinsesstårta; princess cake. 🙂 You could definitely make one on your own. Just pick whatever you like & assemble!
That's what I love about Smörgåstårta, you can make it your own with whatever you find tasty! 😛
🙋♂️
Birthdays, funerals, and all sorts of occations! Perfect and very appreciated! 😋😋
@@birgittae9046 always an occation for it :)
And don't forget the mayo. 😊
You can buy it at normal grocery stores, if they have cakes, they'll sell smårgåstårta too.
Oh yeh for sure. Our Kvantum has this, but not cakes. Its just such a normal thing for everyone to have. Hahhahaa
2-4 piece cakes or so yes, larger made to order.
But if u want a really good one you need to go to a proper place.
@@henrikssonalbin92, my local ICA sells some of the best smörgåstårta I've ever had, and I've worked in a kitchen. So you _can_ find good smörgåstårta in the grocery store as well... it all depends on who's making it.
I used to work in the delikatess at an ICA and made the smörgårdstårta, and I'm kinda mad at myself for not memorizing it bc it was so good. Wish all ICAs/grocery stores had a proper delikatess. The stores closest to me barely have a delikatess, and the selection is so meh. If they don't have picksalami it's no good LOL
We have these in Finland too, mostly ham or salmon.
Every bigger celebration.. and almost every cafe has least one on to offer..😅
And pizza to i guess? But sandwich cake is frome Sweden and pizza frome Italy .Sima is frome Finland and i would'nt write that we have that to .. please!
@@michaelhammar2778 all they said was they have those cakes there too, jesus christ you make it a bigger deal than what it is lol, you forget finland have lots of swedish influence since WAAAY back, just like sweden have finnish influences too from pretty much same time
@@OlafPawbelt Oh please shut up! What' s wrong with commenting on something you obviously does'n't know anything about.Fact is that many finns are ignorant and thinking that its finnish thing .The finnish influence in Sweden is very insignificant !
@@OlafPawbelt Not ok comment in any way!
@@michaelhammar2778 imagine being this offended
We Swedes would often have smörgåstårta for celebrations, school graduations and confirmations. You have a ton of variations, everything from seafood to meat, you can make it a couple of days ahead and decorate it on the celebration day. It´s so yummy :) I prefer to do my own but you can buy quality ones at a patisserie or regular ones in in a grocery store sometimes. You should definitely try a couple in different flavors.
Homemade is always best🤤
Never seen this before now!
I heard of it… Also in Tull program (borderguards)
Today it popped up in my feed! Have actually forgotten all about it - I must say IM TOTALLY IN!!!! 😋🤤
Maybe we should import that dish here in Denmark ?🤷🏼♂️
Danes would Love it💯
I was in Helsingborg this wedensday with my dad - We had fish’n chips, not Long walk north from sundbusserne ! 😋
@@michaelripley4528 You should make a Smörrebröd-cake crossover!
@@emmagunnerblad6264 Asked my daughter after watching the video, She went ew 😝 Im very sure my son-in-law would Love it!!! 💯
I might have to smuggle one out of Sweden… 😜
Smörgåstårta is one of the best things out there, when done right. There are so many variants of it though, I personally have never had this version. I think my older sister makes the best ones and she crushes either "cheese doodles" or "cheez balls", and put it on the outside before putting on the cold cuts. And the cold cuts are individual, you can either do this with salmon, or with smoked ham, or roast beef, rolled up slices of cheese, tomatoes, whatever. Anything you like can go on there, just make sure it marries well in flavors. When you come visit Sweden, make sure you try a piece! Store-bought can be fine, but honestly, the homemade ones are almost always the best.
Smörgåstårta is kind of Swedens unofficial national dish!
My mom has a special recipe with I do quite often. I have a container with the mix you have in the middle in the fridge (my mix is mayonnaise, crème-fraishe cucumber, apple, leek and canned tuna) then I can assemble a sandwich when I want to. Most of the time I don’t garnish it but sometimes I do and then I take kind of what I have at home. Salad, cucumbers, eggs, salmon, prawns.
You can buy smörgåstårta att most Swedish supermarkets and versions of a smörgåstårta, like räkmackor and so on. Are available at a lot of bakeries/lunch restaurants
Smörgåstårta. Is something we often serve when we host bigger parties like birthdays, graduation, studenten and so on. There is actually a movie about a man who arranged to make the worlds longest Smörgåstårta. The movie is called Tårtgeneralen (the cake-general)
For a great and not overly expensive experience of the Swedish smörgårdsbord. Book a trip on any of the faeries going between Stockholm and Helsinki (Finland) on bird they have amazing smörgårdsbord. And there’s a lot of fun things to do onboard and you get to see the Swedish archipelago
If you place those bread squares exactly the same, they will separate because the cracks will be in the same location. By overlapping it will hold together. Professional cakes are made from one piece of bread per layer, round or square, and the size depends on how many people the cake is for.
It's supposed to soak into the bread, it's what makes the Smörgåstårta juicy and creamy.
If you like leeks, you can swap the red onions for that instead.
Or make a layer with paté and pickles instead of crayfish and onions.
should definitely rest for 24h , mums
In Finland we call it "voileipäkakku".
Gunnar Sjödahl lives in Östersund and has worked as a pastry chef most of his life. He was an apprentice at a pastry shop in Härnösand when one day in 1965 he got an idea for a new type of dish that he started experimenting with. When he finished his five-year apprenticeship, he moved to Östersund and started working at Wedemark's pastry shop. There he launched his project - the Swedish sandwich cake.
Jätteintressant, och så förvånande att den inte är äldre än från 1965. Yngre än mig m a o 😄
If you haven't tasted crayfish, I suggest you try to get yourself invited to a Swedish crayfish party! They typically happen somewhere between the second half of August to mid-October.
You will
- put the whole crayfish in your mouth to suck some juice out of it
- Meticulously remove the shell,
- Eat some as they are
- Put a bunch of them on a slice of warm toasted bread, and have some mayonnaise on it.
- Drink beer
- Drink snaps, shots of traditional flavored scandinavian spirits like Östgöta Sädes, Hallands Fläder, Porsbrännvis, Bäska Droppar (it means bitter drops, this is an acquired taste), and many others.
- Sing traditional Swedish drinking songs, the lyrics are mostly about getting drunk and misbehaving
- Wear silly hats
- Have LOTS of fun!
You never getting tierd of smörgåstårta. If you haven´t tried it you miss out on something really speciall. There is speciall places that speciallize doing them. Also many supermarkets do them or some older typy of caffee´s called Konditori
We have that in Finland too. You can make that with coldcuts too. I just found a recipe for Sushi sandwichcake 😄
Being Finnish I don't know about smörgåstårtas but voileipäkakku can be made with dark rye bread too, or a mixture of white and dark breads.
@@jennifer1329 smörgåstårta and voileipäkakku are the same thing. It's not like there are just one recipe for both.
@@jennifer1329Please do not be so ignorant! It's frome Sweden !
@@Skege1000 it's herritage is from sweden, look it up. But we both share pretty much a lot of things with eachother so we influence eachother, ignore michael, she is just angry for no reason. I bet she is fråm skåne = fake sweden
I have eaten smörgåstårta on basically every larger family gathering here in Finland, and last year I decided to try to make my own. It turned out delicious! I didn't use shrimp though, I went for a more salmon-based smörgåstårta. I highly recommend trying to make one! And the bread edges that you cut off: soak them in garlic oil for a couple of hours and then roast them in the oven. They become yummy snacks 😋
Great ideas with the crumbs!
When it comes to Swedish sandwich cake, you can do whatever you like!
Bread, Fillings, toppings... just go nuts.
Just let the cake set for a while before you put topping on it.
I once ordered a SWC for 12 people for my birthday at this amazing cafe we have in town, and they
made the most beautiful cake ever. It weigh 22 pounds and was large as f...
Tasted amazing!
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I know that caterers offer Sandwich cake when catering weddings, funerals, parties and so on, but in my family we always make them ourselves. You can find pieces of sandwuch cake, just as you can find pieces of princess cake in larger stores, and I presume most bakeries can offer them, but sandwich cake isn't usually a restaurant food.
Smörgåstårta is very practical, you make it the day before the event and it tastes so good.
I worked as a baker a few years ago, I think I've maid at least 100-200 of them. Never got tired of making or eating them 🤤
It is so incredibly good!! We used to have it on festive occasions. In Sweden you can find it in many delicatessens or if you want it really fancy you can order it in such shops or catering. Try it, it will exceed your expectations.
This is my favorite food in the whole world.
I have it every birthday of mine, and like to get it more often to!
Some resturants serve it, depend on the style of resturants ofc, but if you get it at a resturant you don't get a whole cake, you get a square slice.
Many supermarkets make em too, like inhouse, not from factory, usually quite pricey, you can order them between 4 to 20 slice size.
The 20 slize sizes are BIG cakes, you order them usually atleast 2 days before (Since it needs atleast 1 night to set too), but shrimp shouldn't be served for too long either, so they usually are always made the day before serving, never earlier or later.
There is a lot of different kind of smörgåstårtor, my family have our own recipe. Some have a ham filling for example.
Yeah dont like eggs (have no problems withthem in recepies just dont like boiled eggs) and slightly alergic towards seafoods like shrip and crayfish - but cheese and ham or salmanon cakes exsists so it is usaly not a problem.
Every grocery store has it
ICA is one of the biggest foodchains oin Sweden and most ICA stores sell smörgåstårta. In many of them you can even buy just one piece for one person. Or a big one for 12-16 people. It is a sswedish invention and I can´t imagine why the world hasn´t taken it to their hearts a long time ago. I think it´s super delicious and I sometimes make one myself for family and friends.
12-16 people just means 6-8 people at tops ;)
2-4 portions/person are standard :D
you made me wanna go buy a big one to just keep in the fridge and eat it everyday. darn it
@@DNA912Det har jag gjort ibland när jag är lat. Köpt en 6 bitars. Det räcker till två luncher och en middag. Nu måste jag beställa en till helgen 😋
@@DNA912Förbanne dig! Nu måste jag göra detta 😂
Many stores also sell "landgångsbröd" (pier bread) which is used for building smörgåstårta. It's just normal toast bread but it's cut along the length instead. You get fewer seems when assembling the cake then.
Smörgåstårta is sold in most larger supermarkets. I believe there is a good chance to find some at any month of the year.
Grocery stores in Sweden usually have them but in a smaller size (good for 2-3 people). They come in variants with meat (roast beef, smoked ham, brie cheese etc.), and one which is seafood based (with smoked salmon, shrimp etc.)
If you need a bigger size smörgåstårta they're made to order with a minimum of 7-8 pieces/slices.
A lot of different varieties on ingredients for smörgåstårta, in our family we do spinach and smoked salmon filling with a bread that is a mix between white bread and whole wheat bread, with mayonnaise of course and decorations is tomatoes, cucumber, sallad, lemon, shrimps, caviar and egg (bolied lagom).
This is one of my favorite Swedish dishes. There are many versions nowadays and family recipes.
you find smörgåstårta in almost every cafe ,gasstation ,, food store,,,bakeryes
But stay away from ready cakes like
Nyhléns Hugosons sells. Bakery's have the best ones.
@@notsureiLeven the ICA ready-made ones are still really good
It's just not nearly as good as the order-made
The best smörgåstårta (except for home made ones obviously) is sold at, in my opinion, bake shops.
Shrimp have more pronounced legs, while prawns have legs that are almost undetectable. Prawns also have claws on three of their five pairs of legs, while shrimp only have claws on two of their five pairs of legs. In addition, prawns have a longer thorax and a smaller abdomen in comparison to shrimp.
Bigger ordinary grocery stores usually sell them so they are not difficult to find here. Also bakeries might make them on order, but they are very expensive which is why they are also often made at home. And they come with a bit of variations for the ingredients both inside and on it, so yes you absolutely don't need to get raw onion in your sandwich cake if you don't like it.
It's quite common to serve smörgåstårta at funerals as well along with coffee
i make those for my birthday every year. so tasty. you can buy them at most grocerystores( whole cake) and cafes. another sandwish you should look into trying is räkmacka
I love smörgåstårta but I very much prefer roastbeef or ham variants! So good and delicious,! 🎉😋🥰
As for Onion love it!🤪
Cold smoked salmon, shrimps and blue cheese 😋
a lot of supermarkets sell sandiwsh cakes where you can buy whole cakes or slices. If you're going to stockholm Hötorgshallen got a few stands that sell them by the slice too. Smörgostårta can be expensive so be preperad for that!
Well sorted grocery stores makes them and sell. Tastes really good with a cup of tea. Then there is "landgångar" also wich are like rectangle shaped sandwiches.
The best thing with "smörgåstårta" is that YOU make with stuff YOU enjoy. It is your cake!!
Use bread of your choise. Make/use spreads to your taste. As many layer as you like.
After a night in the fridge: whisk philadelfiacheese and a bit of creme fraiche (season if you want to, salt and peppar) til its nice and fluffy- makes it easy to spread all over the cake.
Now you decorate just as much or little as you like.
Remember: it is you cake so you make it to your taste!!!
You can buy this form of cake in every food store or bakery. They will all be diffrent.
I make one a few times a year. Smörgåstårta is also perfekt for days you missed lunch and also need a fika. Most cafés has smörgåstårta. With seafood, meat or just with veggies. You can order a whole or buy a prefered pice. If you want a whole, tip, order days before.
Smörgåstårta is most often ordered by catering for birthdays, graduation or similar events. It can have other ingredients than shown in the clip, but usually it's delicious
You can buy it, used to get one from a really nice place where a large cake cost like 700-800sek, so ~100kr per person.
Most common is a roast beef or salmon/shrimp one.
I love to have white wine to my smörgåstårta.
You can get smörgåstårta in so many places if you don’t want to make it yourself. Usually they have small portions in the large food stores, but you can also order it so that they make it according to your taste and the size of your party.
Most bakeries and pastryshop you can order a "smörgåstårta" in different shapes and sizes . Even large supermarkets sell them !
We make in Finland also this
You can buy them in most places, you can order them at many large supermarkets like ICA, Hemköp or Coop with a day or two advance, or if you go to a specialty bakery shop they might be able to make one within an hour.
Since they perish in 2-3 days even refrigerated, and you can't freeze them, you will almost never find one pre-made to buy right off.
Smörgåstårta is the best thing in the world. It's pretty much available in every grocery store and bakery.
Most well stocked stores probably carry 1-2 portion pieces, I know my local ICA does. And most bigger ICAs (and I assume other bigger stores that have delis) you can order them. They also come in a variety of flavors, seafood like this one. Roastbeef, italian meats and sausages... The list goes on
Lokal bakeries can sometimes sell Smörgåstårta. You can have a Smörgåståra in the frige 3-4 days. With every day the flavor gets richer and richer. A 2 day old Smörgåstårta tastes the best imo.
There's a restaurant called "Vardagslyx", (everyday luxuary translated), in the city of Örnsköldsvik in Sweden. Who specializes in slices of Smörgåstårta, and they are glorious!
sandwich cake is so good
I live in Guthenburg, we have fresh shrimps/prawns and our smörgåstårta is the best. You can buy it in stores. There are many diferent ones, some have cheese and ham or rostbeef and potatoesallad. You have to taste one. Ilove to have mine with chrimps and crabsallat some tuna and eggs. Where I live we have several fantastic places to buy smörgåstårta. They are expensive but if you are doing it yourself it wont be much cheeper.
After scrolling through some comments I realised that roastbeef-smörgåstårta is my favourite, but I do actually like almost all of them. Just a nice thing to eat. And as some people have mentioned, yes it gets even better two days after it was made.
Bageriet close to Leicester Square in London does Sandwich cakes among other Swedish baked goods.
This recipe did not use "landgångsbröd" translated "gangway bread". It is the same type of bread but longer. That way you can alternate the direction you lay them down and have the cake stay together better, sort of like bricks. Also it often has a layer of a darker type of bread.
Hero sandwich is the closest to landgångsbröd ;)
They are common as "celbratory foods" and are usually served as lunch at a birthday party or at the workplace if your employer wants to celebrate something. You can usually order in bakeries or larger grocery stores, but I would recommend going to a good bakery. It might be hard to get just one serving tho, they are usually sold whole. So get a bunch of friends over and have one! And as stated, they are very versatile, can be made with cold cuts of meats and can easily be made vegetarian or vegan.
I like the onion as the sharpness cuts the fattiness of the mayo but you can vary toppings and fillings a lot. Would recommend a ham filling with a bit of horseradish myself!
At some bigger food stores, like ICA Maxi you can buy sandwich cake in portion form or like a small cake. They make these themselves.
Sandwich cake is great :) Love them. We have those also in here Finland and can found in grocery stores too but have not tested those.
They do vary in quality, so get a piece from a known good bakery, not a supermarket. Raw onion gets mild in the mix, the over night thing does it, you will love it.
Love to see my country through your eyes. Smörgåstårta is super popular and common. You can easy both buy them and make them. Every bakery, coffee shop of bigger size, big food store have them.
I make my eggsallad that goes inside with curry powder 😁 and the outside is mayonnaise mixed with whipped cream for mine 👍 Its so good! 💜
You can buy smörgåstårta at your local food store as well as make them at home. The ones that you make yourself tastes better. You can also go to a confectionery and order one, and theese tastes amazing! They come in lots of different variations like ham and cheese etcetera
There are versions based on whipped cream and horse radish, others full of tuna and creme fraiche. Every ingredient is 100% optional and as long as you can make the case that it LOOKS like some kind of cake and has enough sandwich-y ingredients you get the smörgåstårta stamp. Heck, make 2+ open-faced sandwiches, stack them and call it smörgåstårta.
As long as you TRY make it tasty, it is actually hard to completely fail.
Love smörgåstårta specially when you have liverpastaj in it. I know some store has bigger pieces of bread in freezer but works so well with the small ones also. Last time I got one, I got it from the local food store.
Testa lever pastej (bredbar m tryffel), bostongurka, mayonaise, mixa och använd som fyllning mellan 2 brödlager. Använd halvmån format bröd (kommer inte på namnet just nu, men det norrländska med ren som märke). Som andra lager fyllning kan man ta mimosa sallad, 3 lagret din favorit potatis sallad. Brödet har förmärkta lagom stora bitar i mönstret. Bred hela skapelsen med cottage cheese. Toppa med rökt skinka, rostbiff, kalkon samt halvade körsbärs tomater, ägghalvor, tunna gurkskivor (anv. osthyveln och sätt runt kanten).
I have'nt made a smörgåstårta in years, need to make one soon! It's so good!
You can get it at most grocery stores or some bakeries. We Swedes have it for graduations and bigger celebrations mostly in the summer but it is available all year around in many forms and fillings variety. There are thus that are based in hame and have tropical fruits. There are those with Italian style with airdry hame and more Mediterranean fillings. Most of the ingredients you will find in the bigger grocery stores, some older recipes are mostly cand stuff that are mixed together with fresh veggies as garnish. All of them are made with bread/cake Bottoms and have lots of mayo, wiped cream, and soft cheese layers with different toppings and filling mixes.
I think it got popular because it is easy to prep before a party and you could fead many with the cake. It was a staple both my grandmothers made just as often as there was regular kake. It also often shows up when there is a wake or after a funeral get-together.
Like others have said, there are hundreds of variants as you can exchange ingredients and theme (more seafood or more meat or both?). Smörgåstårta is glorious, though. It's elaborate enough to be festive, and "foody" enough to be enjoyed with good conscience (in contrast to a sugar-laden regular cake). It's best enjoyed together with a lager or perhaps a dry white wine.
There is something called a shrimpbomb/ räkbomb , a smaller version of it some stores sometimes sell but its quite expensive
You can get a smörgåstårta at most cafes all over Sweden. At ICA and coop if they have deli counters. Ask any swede about it, and they'll tell you where their favourite place. Also, it has to set overnight, or the bread will be dry.
This days I would say you pre-order them from a bakery if you want to have cake for a party taking place at lunch-time. The reason you pre-order them is because they need to set in the refrigurator. I would argue overnight is even a bit tight. If the bread soakes up the filling it staays together better, and you dont want to have dry bread in it when you eat it. Basically this i a cake that gets better with time.
Running joke is it is a kake for "gubbar" (mature old men) so it is more common if you are celebrating an old-ish man. But also as I stated previously, this is a combination of lunch and cake, sop if you hare hosting a party at lunch-time this is an option to serving lunch with cake as an desert.
We also have this exact thing in Finland. Every birthday party, especially those with a lot of adults, has one.
Sandwich cake is rarely popular with children under the age of 12. Same here in Sweden my neighbor.
There are smörgåstårta with meatballs too. And with roast beef
And tuna
I love it! Very tasteful if well done!
Looooove a good smörgåstårta!!! You can find them in good cafés or in assorted stores. And yes, it's a lot of mayonnaise 😅 and it's not uncommon to also decorate with cheese, ham and grapes to name a few. Other variations of smörgåstårta is tuna, roast beef or veggie.
We have this tradition (as I guess many familys worldwide do, so not that unique) that the birthday"child" gets to dictate what we eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The ONLY thing my sons (14 and 18) wants is this. I really do think we could skip presents as long as they get to eat this. They would kick my arse if I didn't do this for them on their birthday.
HOWEVER! Doing this for 12-15 people, seeing thait contains; praws, crayfish, gravlax/smoked salmon, fishroe, dried ham etc. etc. It's not the cheapest stuff around.
But it is soo good 🙂
Jag är 53 och när morsan frågar vad jag vill ha på min födelsedag. Smörgåstårta blir det till svar. Gillar Köttbullar och Leverpastej på min. Leverpastej är inget jag normalt gillar men på smörgåstårta är det pricken över i-et. Men "smaken är som baken" som de säger.
We have sandwich cake here in Finland also
@@lars-andersjohansson6407 Jag är 48, samma här 😉
Leverpastej, tonfisk, gravad lax och räkor är bäst.
Smörgåstårta is very much up to your liking how you do it. There is the most common i would say which is with egg, shrimp and smoked salmon.
You can make one with cold cuts like ham, roastbeef. Some have a paste made of liver some dont.
It's basically just stacked white bread with some kind of mayonnaise based spread and then what ever filling you want in between and topped with a ton of amazing toppings like meats, seafood, fish and fruits and the best part about it is if you get leftovers it's even better the next day.
Smörgåstårta is just awesome to lunch a summerday celebrating something
Its so good. I do one to my sonś birthday next week. The sekret is the filling , Mayo and solur cream( not so match of mayonas.😊❤
Å in Swedish sound more like O than and A. You can find Sandwich cake in stores and old fashion coffee shops and they comes in different flavours. I worked for 1 year making smörgåstårta. In my town there is place that has smörgåstårtebuffet a few times of year.
For sure, the big food stores always have smörgåstårta you can buy 😊
Best cake EVER
You can buy or order them in every Bageri evry where in Sweden stor. Or buy in food stormarknader.
Or made home made and you choose the tast.
the core of a sandwich cake is mayo and high fat content fermented milk product (sour cream, creme freche) and bread. the rest is up to you what you want to put in. they key part is that the bread needs to be moist. some will spay lemon juice over the bread to make it proper soak it in and be moist
You can basically buy smörgåstårta at any Cafe in Sweden and I think almost every Swede can make it for you if you ask. There are also versions of smörgåstårta that are cooked, obviously with slightly different ingredients (melted cheese, ham, salami etc.) but that's more of a modern interpretation of it.
Wait a minute, never had crayfish?! It might be time for you to research "Kräftskiva". It's like the most swedish tradition we got after midsommar/midsummer. :D
Make a video reacting to Kräftskiva please. :)
You can buy it in big supermarkets. A supermarket called Ica Maxi has it in my town.
They are sold pretty much everywhere, in grocery stores, in cafes, even some bakeries have them, catering stores have them for sure. However, there are a thousand different variations so you can't dismiss them if you don't like the first one you taste. The one made here looked damn good and is one of the more classic ones.
Swedes love onions, we have onions in everything, both raw and not raw. So you will have problems if you don't like onion, note though that it is red onion that is used here, it is almost always used raw, it tastes quite different from yellow onion, I would almost describe it as having a bit of an apple taste.
Very typical food when, for example, your employer offers food when something special has happened, someone retires, the holidays begin, or the company has made a good quarter. But also very typical to have when you invite large groups of friends, acquaintances and friends, think baptisms, funerals, birthday parties with many guests. They can be made iprincip any size.
I actually LOVE this. And I dont est fish. When I did I didnt like fish, but I loved smörgåstårta. You can buy it in some traditional cafés I think, and stores.
You can buy them in well assorted supermarkets and many bakeries and cafés. Not the large coffee shop chains, though.
Apple grated in creme fraiche , smoked ham and "only" some fresh vegetables on top is my version.
...and it´s sooooo good!!! 😍Drooling over here, although I just ate...
Smörgåstårta has many variants. Crayfish is not that common. My mom doesn't have that. I think she just puts liver paté between the bread. But I think the stuff that covers it is simple quite simple. But there are shrimps and salmon on the cake, usually. You could put roast beef, smoked ham, and so instead. And some salad, vegetables, or fruits, What you usually have on the standardized smörgåsbord.
The best part of Scandinavian Sandwich cakes are the variety! They can be - anything - ! Fish, red and white meats, game, vegetables/fruits or the mix of these! They can be more or less cheesy. Ceram cheese, hard cheese.. Wetter or drier.. White, dark, special (as long as it's fluffy/soft!) breads.. You name it!
Scandinavian? Swedish please!
@@michaelhammar2778 Swedes are too pretentious with their Bread-Cakes. The other varieties do it much better!
@@MakapaaYes of course Pekka ! And poor weak little Suomi won the winter war!! Keep on drinking and dream'in😊
A well made smörgåstårta is such a guilty pleasure. It's rich, savory and just.. It's fantastic.
If you go to Sweden, just Google where you can get the best smörgåstårta close by. A local bakery is usually your best bet. Sometimes supermarkets like Ica, Hemköp or Coop make their own inhouse and they're usually really solid.
Smörgåstårta is glorious, and so customizable! Don't like seafood? Make one with egg salad or ham salad instead. Vegetarian? Just add different vegetarian friendly fillings and toppings. Lactose intolerant? Use lactose free options. Gluten intolerance/allergy? Use gluten free bread. Don't like mayo? Use cream cheese or Swedish "mjukost" instead. Want to make it more healthy or lower GI? Use whole grain bread or protein bread instead of white bread. There's honestly a smörgåstårta for most palates and dietary needs/preferences. It's so festive and great option for feeding many people during some celebration or gathering. Seriously, more countries need to try Smörgåstårta XD
Smörgåstårta can be made at home, but it can be more difficult than it looks when it comes to making it look good. A lot of people will pick up Smörgåstårta from a bakery or café or the bakery section of grocery stores. There's usually some standard smaller ones available to just pick up, and you can also pre-order if wanting a larger and/or customized smörgåstårta. A café in my town makes smörgåstårta to order, and they're absolutely amazing! I'm not even a huge fan of Smörgåstårta a lot of the time as I don't eat fish and I'm not a big fan of seafood (except for shrimp) and definitely don't eat any kind of caviar or fish roe (which is common toppings and in fillings on many smörgåstårta).
I don't think I've been to many funerals where they didn't serve smörgåstårta, followed by prinsesstårta (and since I have a huge amount of older relatives I have been to many many funerals). It is also quite common to have a layer of some kind of liver paté...ish, and ham. Homemade smörgåstårta is sooo good.
We almost always buy, not make. You can buy it in many places. In some you have to tell them in a couple of days in advance. In some deli counters in big grosery stores you kan by a slice for one person (normaly at lunch)
Hey Dwayne. If ever you visit Sweden and want to try an awsome smörgåstårta... You visit Örebro and Smörgåsbutiken... its really my favourite place, and that many in Sweden travel to experience. Or you can do with any bakery. But beweere, If they dont make sinnamon rolls or smörgåstårta. They really not a real bakery. Peace!
In Finland there's always sandwich cake at funerals and weddings and other big family gatherings. Usually people make it at home and one is a fish cake and the other is a meat cake. I don't like the fish one but I love the meat sandwich cake.
(S) - There are thousands of variations "Sandwich cake" everyone has their preferences! But the "Smörgåstårtan" must be in a class with "smörgårdsbord" and Meatballs. The "sandwich cake" can be served at funerals and weddings and everything in between. Uniquely!
My favourite sandwich cake is made with cured salmon and prawns in the layers. And whipped cream, some mayo and mix with a lot of grated horseradish. Then spread out the cream in between on the layers and on the top.
Garnished with plenty of prawns, topped with dill, cucumber, egg- and lemon slices. I make the cake myself. 😋😋