Ingredients:

• 1/2 C margarine (Land o Lakes)
• 1 C sugar
• 3 T cocoa
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 C flour

Do this:
Melt margarine in saucepan and remove from heat. Add the rest if ingredients in order given and stir after each addition. Make sure the batter has cooled down before adding eggs. Pour in greased 8″ x 8″ pan
and bake in preheated 350º oven for 12-15 min. or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Recipe may be doubled and baked in a 9″ x 13″ cake pan. Increase baking time to 30-35 minutes. 

Melt the margarine

Pour in the sugar

Stir in the cocoa

Add the eggs and stir

Add the flour

Pour the batter into a greased cake pan

In the cake pan and ready for the oven

Sprinkle with powdered sugar

Ingredients:
Makes 16

Crust:

• 1/2 C Land o Lakes margarine
• 1/3 C powdered sugar
• 1 1/3 C flour

Top:

• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 C sugar
• 3 T flour
• juice of 1 lemon
• grated rind of 1 lemon

Do this:
Cut margarine and let sit for 15 minutes or so to soften. Add the powdered sugar and flour and blend like pie crust with pie cutter. Press evenly into 9×13 cake pan and bake for 15 minutes in 350º oven until delicately brown. While crust is baking, beat the eggs and add sugar, flour, grated rind and the juice from one lemon. Pour this on hot crust and bake another 15 minutes or until delicately brown. Remove from oven and dust with powdered sugar. Cool and cut into squares. The center will be soft until cool.

Cut margarine and let sit for 15 minutes to soften
Cut the four and powdered sugar into the margarine using a pasty cutter

Crust will resemble pie dough

Now dump the crust into a 9″x13″ cake pan

Pat the crust evenly on the bottom of cake pan and bake 15 minutes in 350º oven

Prepare the top while crust is baking. Blend 3 eggs with electric mixer

Add sugar, flour, grated lemon rind and lemon juice to eggs and beat with mixer. Pour onto hot bottom crust and bake another 15 minutes in 350º oven

Take out of oven and sprinkle with powdered sugar

Cool and cut into squares

This was my husbands choice for our Sunday dessert and I can’t take credit for this because he made it! We have family for dinner every Sunday and it is so much fun deciding what I am going to cook up to surprise them with. They’re our guinea pigs for new recipes and we welcome their comments! 

Ingredients:
Serves 8 

• 1 1/4 stick butter or margarine (10 Tablespoons)
• 1 1/4 C sugar
• 3 eggs, separated
• 1 1/2 C flour
• 1/2 whipping cream
• 3 T  unsweetened powdered cocoa
• 1 tsp vanilla

Filling:

• 1 pint whipping cream
• 4 T strawberry jam
• 1-2 T sugar

Top:

15-20 Fresh strawberries

Do This:
Cream the butter then add sugar. Add one egg yolk at a time and mix. Then add the flour, cocoa, whipping cream and vanilla and mix thouroughly. Whip the egg whites with a metal wisk until frothy and fold into cake batter.
Grease side of springform pan and line bottom with baking paper. Pour the batter in the pan, spread evenly and bake in a 350º oven for 50 minutes.
Cool for 10 minutes and remove cake and place on wire rack to cool.

When cake is cool, cut cake into 3 even slices. Whip the whipping cream and add the strawberry jam to half of the whipped cream and blend. Spread this on bottom and middle layers. Mix the sugar in the remaining whipped cream and spread one the sides and top of cake. Decorate the cake top with the fresh strawberries and serve.

Cut baking paper to fit bottom of springform pan and grease the sides

Cream butter then add the sugar and blend. Add rest of ingredients except the egg white and blend with mixer.

Whip egg whites with wire wisk until frothy and fold into batter

Pour batter into springform pan and spread evenly. Bake in 350º oven for 50 minutes

Spread the strawberry filled whipping cream between layers

Place top layer on cake and spread the remaining whipping cream on side and top of cake

Decorate top of cake with fresh strawberries

Cut and serve

I have had Swedish waffles (våfflor) many times in Sweden and they are very easy to duplicate as there are no “strange” ingredients and the heart shaped waffle makers are readily available.
We had an early supper today and decided to make Swedish waffles for a late dessert. You may also have vanilla ice cream on the waffles, but whipping cream and strawberry jam is a must! m-mmm good

Ingredients:
Makes 6 waffles

• 1 1/2 C flour
• 7 T margarine, melted
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 3/4 C milk

Do this:
This is easy – put all ingredients in a medium size bowl and blend with wire whisk. Pour batter into preheated waffle maker and bake for 4-5 minutes until golden brown. Lightly sprinkle each waffle with sugar.
Top each waffle with a dollop of whipping cream and strawberry jam.

Pour batter in waffle make and bake for 4-5 minutes until golden brown

Sprinkle each waffle with sugar

Top each waffle with whipping cream and strawberry jam

• 1 C flour
• 1/2 C butter
• 1/2 C light brown sugar

Top layer:

• 2 eggs well beaten
• 2 T flour
• 1/2 tsp Baking powder
• 1 C brown sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3/4 C chopped pecans
• 3/4 C coconut flakes*

Do this:
Cream bottom layer ingredients and pat by hand into a lightly greased 9″ x 13″ pan. Bake 10 minutes at 300º F.
While bottom layer is baking, beat eggs and then combine remaining ingredients for top layer (stir in pecans and coconut by hand) and gently spread evenly on baked bottom layer. Bake 325º F for 20 minutes. Do not over bake. Cut when cool and serve with a nice hot cup of Swedish coffee!
You may cut this recipe in half using an 8″ x 8″ pan.

Pat the bottom layer into the pan

Spread top layer carefully on baked bottom
*You may have noticed in this picture that the coconut flakes look a bit different. It is because I used a finely shredded unsweetened coconut that we purchased in Sweden, but it can be purchased at some grocery stores.

Out of the oven and cooling. Cut into squares when cool.