As a child growing up in central North Dakota in the 1980s, I was surrounded by Norwegian sweets: krumkake, spritz cookies, fattigman, rosettes, and of course, lefse, the potato-based flatbread spread ...

Rosettes, krumkake, spritz, sandbakkelse, fattigmand... The list of traditional Christmas baking goes on and on. Much of it in this area was inspired by Norwegian settlers. They brought their love of ...