A TASTE OF SOLVANG, CALIFORNIA IN 1 DAY (DANISH CAPITAL OF AMERICA) FOOD TOUR!

[@DannyPhilipsen]

Hello, Dane here. Your pronunciation of æbleskiver was pretty good! Also, that cake in tiers is what we call kransekage, and it's not a wedding cake. We eat it on New year's Eve, after the bells strike midnight :)

[@letsmadventure]

Ah yay!!! So good to know, thank you, I tried a piece of kransekage at one of the bakeries in town, and I think I would have that ANY day haha soooo tasty!!!

[@DannyPhilipsen]

@@letsmadventure kransekage is amazing, and it goes VERY well with some champagne. The sweetness of the kransekage combined with the acidic taste of the champagne is a match made in heaven!

[@ronaldliston5877]

“Wood shoe believe” hahahah! Love your witty puns! Keep it up 😃👍🏻

[@letsmadventure]

Hahahaha thank you! So glad you caught it!!!

[@BrokenDreamsReborn]

Hey y'all, we are Shion and Matthew and just came across your channel! Solvang looks like such a cute town to visit! Those round pancakes look really good! Thanks for sharing!

[@letsmadventure]

Hi Shion and Matthew! We're so happy to hear that, thanks for joining us! The pancakes were insanely good, it made editing this video torturous wishing we had more hahaha!

[@teetaunjj7894]

It's actually pronounced Abe Luh Skeever

[@letsmadventure]

Good to know!!! Thank you!!!

[@pearleyclemans3695]

I love your videos Madison and Ivan. They are wonderful!!!

[@letsmadventure]

Thank you so much!

[@onetrueflip03]

Very educational and fun experience. Thank you for sharing your experience!

[@letsmadventure]

Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it!!! 😁

[@kimliston9166]

Those desserts look amazing!

[@letsmadventure]

They taste even better than they look!!!

[@lupemedina7291]

I really enjoyed watching your video. It was fun and informative! I love to travel for food.

[@letsmadventure]

I'm so glad! Thank you so much! Us too 😋

[@susanflakes6968]

Spent a really neat quality if time here...lovely..

[@letsmadventure]

Glad you enjoyed it! It really is lovely!

[@TooMuchLuggage]

It's a beautiful place. We been there couple of times already. Nice vlog. Keep up a good job. Cris and Ben

[@letsmadventure]

Right!? I already want to go back. Thank you so much!

[@jackliston7235]

Everything looks delicious!!! Was Kris Kringle the inventor of the Kringle? 😃

[@letsmadventure]

I haven't done too much research, but it looks like the root of the word kringle means "round" as in the round curves on the pastry, and maybe also the rounded version of St. Nicholas that we refer to as Kris Kringle. My guess is that is the reason they have the same name, but perhaps Kris Kringle got so round because he was eating too many kringles!

[@elledelrey]

This is an awesome video! Very informative with a touch of Danish history!

[@letsmadventure]

Thank you so much 😀! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@LiLgPnoy15]

The introduction of your video, I can tell you own a Jeep Wrangler. I too have a wrangler 😋

[@letsmadventure]

Yes indeed! Jeep Wave 👋!!!

[@audreywaddle]

One thing I wasn’t the biggest fan of when I went to Austria and Germany, is that the pastries seemed to be mostly filled with apricot. So danish desserts might be more up my alley with the raspberry filling!

[@letsmadventure]

Apricot can definitely be hit or miss.The raspberry was so good, and the almond was insane!!!!!! Editing the video, I was really wishing we had bought more pastries to bring home hahaha.

[@LiLgPnoy15]

I visited here with my friends, July 2023!

[@letsmadventure]

That is awesome! It is such a cute town!

[@LiLgPnoy15]

I vacationed here back in the summer of 2016. I definitely need to go back!!

[@letsmadventure]

That is awesome! It is such a fun place, and Ostrichland USA was a great time too!!!

[@LiLgPnoy15]

I'm going back to Solvang in the summer of 2023!!!

[@chalermchaiwattanawongpitu7196]

Hi! Enjoy ur trip.😊😊😊

[@letsmadventure]

Hi! Thank you so much, we definitely did! Solvang is a very special little town!

[@lakeconroelions1939]

Love it!

[@letsmadventure]

Thanks!!

[@audreywaddle]

I really would like a shield pancake

[@letsmadventure]

I'll have to buy a shield and lose a battle to make you some! Will probably take a while, or never, I might not EVER lose a battle. I will conquer all!!!!

[@katarinaaltmeyer6846]

Can't wait to go to Solvang next week! It'll be my first time :)

[@letsmadventure]

Yay!! Have so much fun!!!

[@californiavibes7207]

Great vid ...loved it

[@letsmadventure]

Thank you so much!

[@soyunik7979]

I live in SB, and Solvang is a nice little getaway when not in the mood to go to LA or the OC lol...also the casino is so much fun as well, just up the road

[@letsmadventure]

I love that! I didn't even know there was a casino over there we'll have to go next time!

[@Battlegris]

Very nice vid! Nice to see a bit of the old country in the US. But can I please completely destroy the viking myth about æbleskiver? First: vikings did not have metal shields. Metal was very, very expensive and hard to get. Second: the name Æbleskiver translate to "Apple slices". The original dish is just thin slices of apple, covered in flour and egg, the fried in butter. The earliest mentioning of the dish is in 1649. Today Danes buy them frozen, in bulk around december. They are fairly labour intensive to make. In My family we do make them ourselves and add apple compote to the center.

[@letsmadventure]

Thanks BoooB! Vikings not having metal definitely makes more sense than the myth haha. I appreciate the info and look forward to trying the real æbleskiver some day, sounds very delicious!!!!!

[@julianachandler2975]

Nice job

[@letsmadventure]

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed! ☺️

[@shirleycopeland1950]

Yum!!!

[@letsmadventure]

I already want to go back for another Kringle!!! 😋

[@tntanto2]

That cake is for new year not wedding. Kransekage

[@letsmadventure]

Good to know! I was wondering why one would want flags on a wedding cake. We tried a little piece at the end of the day from Olsen's bakery, kransekage is delicious!!!

[@terriedahl9725]

They do like Danish flags on tables at weddings my ex MIL wanted them on our tables but we didn't end up doing that. She is from Aalborg Denmark.

[@meljenkins1016]

For years I thought Solvang was Dutch due to the wind mill house's around the area. Then when I visited the place I mistook the flag as Norwegian until some one corrected that it was a Danish flag. Moral of the story, do your homework first before you visit a tourist spot.

[@letsmadventure]

This story is so relatable 😂 ! Thank you so much for sharing!!!

[@goodamericanjeansstylist]

🏡

[@letsmadventure]

:)

[@JustAnotherDayToday]

So basically all you do in Solvang is eat, eat, and eat.

[@letsmadventure]

Pretty much 😂. Eat, drink, and be merry seems to be the Solvang way! Just outside of the town, is a REALLY fun farm called Ostrichland USA that we made a separate video about. It is a great place to play, feed ostriches, and burn some of the calories hahaha.

[@nicholasdsteil]

Aebleskivers are so hard to make properly hahaha

[@letsmadventure]

But when they are 🤤😋😍

[@jasonharrington2106]

lucky

[@letsmadventure]

😁

[@jasonharrington2106]

@@letsmadventure right back atya

[@jasonharrington2106]

@@letsmadventure ive lived by solvang all my life and have only stopped there once...and im 49whats wrong with me

[@jasonharrington2106]

@@letsmadventure do u guys live near there

[@letsmadventure]

@@jasonharrington2106 we lived in LA for 7 years, and we were the same way! Always thought it would be fun to go, but didn't actually make it out there until we were about to leave California and start traveling full-time!

[@sarahdenise1624]

Im Danish and im confused , why is the architecure on the houses the windmills and clougs are dutch but the baker , flags and the name solvang danish ? NETHERLANDS/ Holland are speaking Dutch and iDenmark is two different European countries Do you know you mixed up two different countries ? That is soooo hilarious funny 😂 If you been to Solvang and wanna be a tourist in denmark you will be very disappointed , because Solvang is a cooy of Netherlands/holland and NOT denmark !!!

[@letsmadventure]

Hey Sarah! You're totally right about it being a bit of a blend of European countries in places, thanks for bringing this up. I read that the more Dutch style architecture, including the windmills, are a fairly recent addition. I think it is just a way to bring in more tourists from the area (and the clogs are just a way to get more of their money hahaha).

[@srenrasmussen3178]

Actually I think the houses are styled after an older style of house building used both in Denmark and The Netherlands, as they remind me of the fish packing house’s in my hometown (though not in color but in building style definitely) and I know I can find houses of same building style in Aalborg Denmark, so it is a “copy” of Danish style buildings and as for the windmills, we had the same styles in Denmark, that is how windmills for milling corn looked like, for example Dybøl mill that has the same building style

[@danphan1894]

Maybe They hire Dutch architecure to build Danish Village in California