Ramklints Konditori

Running errands in downtown Lund last week, I was craving coffee and a sweet snack, and got it into my head that I really wanted to have a traditional Swedish cinnamon roll, or kanelbulle. Roger suggested Ramklints Conditori, a pastry shop and bakery that's been around since the 1930s.

When we came upon the shop windows, I was enthralled. It's the kind of place I imagine seniors love, somewhere sunny and clean, that although contemporary has enough of the past still attached to it - forest green, velvet seat cushions with Ikea curtains. To me it felt like European café and bakery melded with American diner ambiance. 

The cakes and pastries, traditional as they were, to me seemed so fanciful and lovely! I had my kanelbulle which I have to say was good, but not as tasty as how I remember Roger's Aunt Gunvor's homemade ones. Ruby was in heaven with her chokladbolle, a chocolate ball consisting of cocoa powder, butter, sugar and oats. FYI, Ikea offers both of these treats (albeit sadder and poorer specimens).

That's spettekaka, or "skewer cake", on the left. It has the 
texture of a meringue cookie, and is a specialty of Skåne.

Ruby was all eyes and drool upon entering the bakery.

The traditional Swedish Princess Cake in all its green and pink marzipan glory!

Apparently that creation in the foreground is not traditional -
but clearly an homage to Swedish national pride.

The difficult choices that one faces in life ...

...are tempered by living life fully and with no regrets.