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Four Famous Ethnic Cookies


Adult Enrichment / Culinary Creations -
Adult Fall 24

Learn to create the rolled Norwegian cookie - krumkakes made with cream, butter and cinnamon or sometimes flavored with vanilla. For generations, Minnesotans have purchased irons to bake krumkakes from local manufacturer Nordic Ware in St. Louis Park. Italian pizzelles are also baked on the stovetop using an iron but are a flat, anise-flavored cookie also flavored with vanilla. The chewy, almond Swedish sandbakkeles are delicate golden brown and are baked in tiny tins to resemble tarts. Finally, you’ll master deep fried rosettes, those exceedingly fragile, paper thin Scandinavian delicacies dusted with confectioners' sugar. Expect great recipes plus the many steps and techniques that will make your baking a success! Please bring containers with you. 

Laurel Severson

Laurel Severson is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a double major in Home Economics and Education. She has worked in businesses throughout her career focusing on food – beginning with editing a series of 12 international cookbooks, testing recipes and editing a British cookbook. She worked at 3M for 30 years supervising the executive dining room, a snack bar, employees buffet, conference dining rooms and the special events such as retirement parties and 25 year anniversary parties before transferring into hospital food service and then the hotel industry. Laurel currently works in many Community Education districts throughout the metro area teaching participation cooking classes. She has traveled extensively including living in the Philippines for one year and in London for two years. An avid collector of cookbooks, Laurel generously shares culinary tips with students. She entertains extensively in her 1882 home and is an energetic volunteer within her St. Paul community. For example, this fall, one volunteer project includes heading up the kitchen crew to feed 500 for a spaghetti supper fundraiser.

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  Laurel Severson


Osseo Middle School : 174 FACS
Friday, Dec 20
6:00 - 9:00 PM

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Min Age   18 yr.

Fewer than 5 spots left


$ 45.00
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