Christmas Update part 1 - Knäck and Chesspiece Cookies

(This was going to be one of those big all-in-one updates, except I disagreed with the read-more-break function, and now I'm splitting it up into three instead.)

Christmas! A time of snow (except we haven't got any), good cheer, presents and good old family traditions! ... And food. Because for those of us who aren't religious, Christmas is mostly about food.

I've said that I'm going to use this blog to spread a few Swedish recipes around - and now I'm putting those words into action, by introducing you to some of my Christmas-y baking traditions.

First up - knäck and Chessboard Cookies!

Knäck
Because you weren't using those teeth anyway.

Homemade Snickers

I remember being eleven years old, visiting a classmate's house. I don't remember clearly what we did all day (except that they might have tried to force make-up on me - clearly a fool's errand), but I do remember the snow falling outside in big, fluffy handfulls, and the warm light in their kitchen.

But most of all, I remember the drop-dead delicious homemade snickers her mother made for us. I've been craving them ever since, but I couldn't remember how they were made. My life was a desert empty of homegrown, stick-to-your-ribs snickers until I realised that we live in the information age, and everything I need to know, I can learn from Google.

A few minutes of googling later, I had my recipe, and was well on my way to making snickers.