Brit Reacts to How to make Swedish sandwich cake - "smörgåstårta"

also, sandwich cake can be made in many different ways, it doesn't have to have the ingredients shown in this video

Think its fair to say that 99% of all Swedes had one for their birthday or at a birthday celebration. Its just one of those standard things along with prinsesstårta; princess cake. 🙂 You could definitely make one on your own. Just pick whatever you like & assemble!

First thing, this is just a suggestion on how to make it. There is a million different ways to make it. Most well stocked stores have them and bakeries and some cafe´ s

Gunnar Sjödahl lives in Östersund and has worked as a pastry chef most of his life. He was an apprentice at a pastry shop in Härnösand when one day in 1965 he got an idea for a new type of dish that he started experimenting with. When he finished his five-year apprenticeship, he moved to Östersund and started working at Wedemark's pastry shop. There he launched his project – the Swedish sandwich cake.

You can buy it at normal grocery stores, if they have cakes, they'll sell smårgåstårta too.

We have these in Finland too, mostly ham or salmon. Every bigger celebration.. and almost every cafe has least one on to offer..😅

Smörgåstårta is one of the best things out there, when done right. There are so many variants of it though, I personally have never had this version. I think my older sister makes the best ones and she crushes either "cheese doodles" or "cheez balls", and put it on the outside before putting on the cold cuts. And the cold cuts are individual, you can either do this with salmon, or with smoked ham, or roast beef, rolled up slices of cheese, tomatoes, whatever. Anything you like can go on there, just make sure it marries well in flavors. When you come visit Sweden, make sure you try a piece! Store-bought can be fine, but honestly, the homemade ones are almost always the best.

We Swedes would often have smörgåstårta for celebrations, school graduations and confirmations. You have a ton of variations, everything from seafood to meat, you can make it a couple of days ahead and decorate it on the celebration day. It´s so yummy :) I prefer to do my own but you can buy quality ones at a patisserie or regular ones in in a grocery store sometimes. You should definitely try a couple in different flavors.

Smörgåstårta is kind of Swedens unofficial national dish! My mom has a special recipe with I do quite often. I have a container with the mix you have in the middle in the fridge (my mix is mayonnaise, crème-fraishe cucumber, apple, leek and canned tuna) then I can assemble a sandwich when I want to. Most of the time I don’t garnish it but sometimes I do and then I take kind of what I have at home. Salad, cucumbers, eggs, salmon, prawns. You can buy smörgåstårta att most Swedish supermarkets and versions of a smörgåstårta, like räkmackor and so on. Are available at a lot of bakeries/lunch restaurants Smörgåstårta. Is something we often serve when we host bigger parties like birthdays, graduation, studenten and so on. There is actually a movie about a man who arranged to make the worlds longest Smörgåstårta. The movie is called Tårtgeneralen (the cake-general) For a great and not overly expensive experience of the Swedish smörgårdsbord. Book a trip on any of the faeries going between Stockholm and Helsinki (Finland) on bird they have amazing smörgårdsbord. And there’s a lot of fun things to do onboard and you get to see the Swedish archipelago

It's supposed to soak into the bread, it's what makes the Smörgåstårta juicy and creamy. If you like leeks, you can swap the red onions for that instead.

You never getting tierd of smörgåstårta. If you haven´t tried it you miss out on something really speciall. There is speciall places that speciallize doing them. Also many supermarkets do them or some older typy of caffee´s called Konditori

I know that caterers offer Sandwich cake when catering weddings, funerals, parties and so on, but in my family we always make them ourselves. You can find pieces of sandwuch cake, just as you can find pieces of princess cake in larger stores, and I presume most bakeries can offer them, but sandwich cake isn't usually a restaurant food.

If you haven't tasted crayfish, I suggest you try to get yourself invited to a Swedish crayfish party! They typically happen somewhere between the second half of August to mid-October. You will - put the whole crayfish in your mouth to suck some juice out of it - Meticulously remove the shell, - Eat some as they are - Put a bunch of them on a slice of warm toasted bread, and have some mayonnaise on it. - Drink beer - Drink snaps, shots of traditional flavored scandinavian spirits like Östgöta Sädes, Hallands Fläder, Porsbrännvis, Bäska Droppar (it means bitter drops, this is an acquired taste), and many others. - Sing traditional Swedish drinking songs, the lyrics are mostly about getting drunk and misbehaving - Wear silly hats - Have LOTS of fun!

I worked as a baker a few years ago, I think I've maid at least 100-200 of them. Never got tired of making or eating them 🤤

We have that in Finland too. You can make that with coldcuts too. I just found a recipe for Sushi sandwichcake 😄

Smörgåstårta is very practical, you make it the day before the event and it tastes so good.

When it comes to Swedish sandwich cake, you can do whatever you like! Bread, Fillings, toppings... just go nuts. Just let the cake set for a while before you put topping on it. I once ordered a SWC for 12 people for my birthday at this amazing cafe we have in town, and they made the most beautiful cake ever. It weigh 22 pounds and was large as f... Tasted amazing! Be safe

ICA is one of the biggest foodchains oin Sweden and most ICA stores sell smörgåstårta. In many of them you can even buy just one piece for one person. Or a big one for 12-16 people. It is a sswedish invention and I can´t imagine why the world hasn´t taken it to their hearts a long time ago. I think it´s super delicious and I sometimes make one myself for family and friends.

I have eaten smörgåstårta on basically every larger family gathering here in Finland, and last year I decided to try to make my own. It turned out delicious! I didn't use shrimp though, I went for a more salmon-based smörgåstårta. I highly recommend trying to make one! And the bread edges that you cut off: soak them in garlic oil for a couple of hours and then roast them in the oven. They become yummy snacks 😋

It is so incredibly good!! We used to have it on festive occasions. In Sweden you can find it in many delicatessens or if you want it really fancy you can order it in such shops or catering. Try it, it will exceed your expectations.