Krokan is a Swedish celebration dessert, a tall multi-tiered pastry made from almond flour. Thin pieces are baked in decorative patterns and then joined with melted caramelized sugar, assembled into a tower and finished with crisscross patterns and marzipan roses. It is traditional at Swedish weddings, including the 1976 wedding of King Carl XVI Gustaf, and a letter to the American-Scandinavian Foundation published about half a century earlier described it as a gorgeous cake as necessary to a Swedish wedding as the bride herself. Krokan also appeared as the showstopper challenge in an episode of the thirteenth season of The Great British Bake Off, which introduced the sculptural pastry to a wider audience.
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Krokan is a Swedish confection and a traditional dessert in the country.
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Krokan is a Swedish confection
In Group: Cakes, Pies and Sweet Baked Goods, Lead, first paragraph
It is a multi-tiered pastry made from almond flour, constructed of thin pieces baked in decorative patterns.
Uses Ingredient: Almond, Lead, first paragraph
It is a multi-tiered pastry made from almond flour, constructed of thin pieces baked in decorative patterns.
Uses Ingredient: Sugar, Lead, first paragraph [uses-ingredient]
The parts are then joined using melted caramelized sugar, assembled into a tower
Expresses Tradition: Wedding Feast Traditions, Lead, second paragraph
Krokans are traditional at Swedish weddings, such as that of King Carl XVI Gustaf in 1976.
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