Tag: raspberries

  • Raspberry slice

    Raspberry sliceApart from the people, (and how flat it is, so you can easily bike anywhere) the thing I miss about Copenhagen most frequently, is how you can walk into a 7-11 and get rather decent pastry. Sure, it’s probably better at the local bakery or bakeshop, but the 7-11 is almost everywhere and open when the other places aren’t.

    In Norway… well,  the pastry is okay at 7-11 here as well.  But true to Norwegian traditions, it is mostly buns and cinnamon buns, and more doughy buns. (It has branched out to cookies, it should be said.) But it isn’t that flaky, Danish pastry that is so delicious and leaves crumbs everywhere.

    Another thing that is missing is the raspberry slice.

    Americans will probably say that it looks like a home made pop tart. Which it kind of does, except the pop tarts I’ve had have been closed at the edges. This isn’t that.

    I went back and forth on which recipe I should try. And I decided to adapt a grandmother recipe. Not my grandmother’s recipe, as she isn’t Danish. But the one posted by Lone Landmand here.

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  • Chocolate Raspberry Tart

    The picture is really not doing this tart justice. It tasted delicious, and as I said as I was making it – there are very few ways to make this go wrong. It is chocolate and raspberries, for Heaven’s sake… 😉

    I used the wrong size of mold, so the pie crust was a bit too thick at the bottom for my taste. The chocolate-and-raspberry filling was delicious.

    Since we had a bit of leftovers, we froze it – and I ended up eating a small piece straight from the freezer. It tasted like a bar of chocolate, with lots of raspberries in. I thought that was even better than the non-frozen version…

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