Most of them are also fairly labor-intensive. And with cookies like Sandbakkels requiring two cups of butter, “we don’t talk calories,” Hills said. The cookies are also not exclusively Norwegian. Many ...

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 ...