I love to bake, so I often volunteer to bring a dessert when gathering with friends to celebrate a birthday. This month we celebrated my friend Ann's birthday. Ann has lived and traveled all over the ...

Rullekake, as the cake is known in Norway, is not strictly a Norwegian dessert, nor is it necessarily Swiss. It's probably from somewhere in Central Europe, such as Austria, but it's so beloved in ...

John McCusker/The Times-PicayuneLillian Rafoss made this traditional Norwegian cream cake. Makes 12-14 servings, 1 cake Sponge base 6 eggs 3/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking ...

While researching my new cookbook, "A Baker's Odyssey," I thanked my lucky stars when I met Leisha Ingdal. A second-generation Norwegian, Leisha cooks and bakes in Edina, Minn., a suburb of ...