Sweden’s Sandwich Cake - Smörgåstårta

[@LukasInTaiwan]

As a Swede, there literally isn’t anything better than Smörgåstårta!❤

[@AntonGermanReal]

håller med ✋

[@EngineerAbbe]

Don't take this the wrong way but even as a swede i'm semi-sensitive to this Smörgåstårta. I enjoy the tast just have a hard time with the texture

[@GreatBigStory]

🫶🇸🇪❤

[@traphimawari7760]

Im sorry but it can't top Ikea meatballs

[@MrZarewna]

We also eat smörgåstårta or voileipäkakku in Finland, but it is rarely made the same way as the Swedish one is. We don't use that shrimp mayo type of mixture. Usually it's made out of cream cheese, ham/salmon and pickled relish.

[@kombinatsiya6000]

Smörgåstårta is one of those things that's crazy expensive to eat at a restaurant but actually quite reasonable to make yourself.

[@jocelynwilliams2059]

How much for a that delicate food cost per serving ??

[@per-olamjomark7452]

@@jocelynwilliams2059 Kinda ballparking it here but I would say around 10 EUR / 11 USD for a serving perhaps, especially in Stockholm at a more fancy café. At the Vetekatten Café in Stockholm you pay roughly 90 EUR / 100 USD for a whole cake (ten pieces).

[@edbertkhovey]

​@@per-olamjomark7452holy that's expensive for a sandwich I guess it's because of the amount of seafood in it

[@deathbycheese850]

​@@edbertkhoveyI live in Australia, and this is on the cheaper side for sandwiches. Subway (not that I eat Subway, after working there years ago) is around AU$10 for a 6 inch/$15 for a footlong. Depending on fillings, deli counter sandwiches or rolls can go from $8 to $18.

[@Ichinin]

Yupp. Visited a friend during this midsummer (2024), he paid 890 SEK (~€90), i think i could have made the same one for 300 SEK (€30). The price of labour + seafood (tunafish + shrimps) is what costs the most.

[@lndtbs]

I'm Swedish and you pretty much nailed it, making it the day before is essential as the bread really needs to soak up all those juices and flavors. Otherwise it'll just be dry and flavorless. You can serve this to any Swede and they'll instantly accept you as one of their own. The best part about smörgåstårta is that there are no hard rules on how to make it. Anything savory goes! The traditional way to make it is with seafood (and lots of shrimp in particular) for sure but if you don't like seafood you can make one with roast beef or whatever - it's your smörgåstårta! You'll find infinite varieties here in Sweden and they're all great. I definitely encourage people to try it, it's not even that hard to make.

[@FrejaLindberg-c6v]

HELLO?? TUNASALAD AS FILLING!! Or is that just a Skåne thing?

[@moaahlgren5193]

Such a classic! And only the sky is the limit for fillings realy... tunasallad, chickensallad, creamy liverpate filling or variants with cheese... anything goes realy.

[@jernulf268]

That smörgåstårta you made looks amazing. It would absolutely impress a Swedish friend if you have one!

[@emeliesolli5773]

It’s fun as a Swede see foreigner try it, both as some may see the concept for the first time, or describing similar regional dishes! Smörgåstårta is a great option for when you want to have guests, and you want to have an informal reception, where guests can trickle in and leave or you just don’t want to have a sit down meal with table settings. It’s severed cold so you just take it out of the fridge, and it’s easy to eat even with disposable plates and plastic cutleries. So it’s gooey in that way that a flimsy paper or plastic fork will do to eat it. And it feels a little festive as it’s topped with delicious stuff. You can make or order whole plates of the cakes and guests and serve themself so you get to mingle and interact with everyone. You can make it a bit ahead of time. Like a ready make cake can sit in fridge for 24h with it not getting bad. Also you could prepare parts, like if you are serving many you can make everything but the topping/decoration until hours before serving if you worry shellfish would go bad or fresh veggies to look sad if it’s sat waiting a couple of days. When I tried working at a cafe as school kid, they did just that, had the bread and filling made ahead of time delivered from the central bakery the day before and in the morning just added the outer layer mayo and the fresh salad, veggies, eggs and shellfish on it.

[@GreatBigStory]

What unique food combinations do you love? 😊 Tell us your favorite frankenfood! 🍽 👇

[@rodeotcd]

Mac and Cheese 🔥

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

Fernet tirado al dulce. Fernet is an Italian/Argentinean herb liqueur, very strong and very, very bitter. Tastes to bad medicine. Argentineans drink it with Coca-Cola. If you mix it with Dulce de leche until it has a texture like Bailey's, it becomes quite palatable 😁 (I concocted it. And I didn't die, so, you are pretty safe if you decide to try it.)

[@fluidize8532]

I love farfalle pasta with mustard, mayo, and sliced pickles. It is "Delicious?"

[@zlxkks]

Ripped up toast and tomato sauce with sardines

[@fluidize8532]

@@zlxkks Delicious?

[@SimonBertilsson]

Perfect pronunciation of Skål Smörgåstårta is the best 🙂

[@flemess]

Here in Brazil we have Torta Salgada ("savory pie"), which is the same idea: use bread as dough, but with shredded chicken as filling, covered with mashed potato and decorated with fresh herbs and vegetables. It was very common when I was a kid, not so much today. Seafood, huh? Maybe I will go on a trip down memory lane, and to the grocery shop. 😋

[@DiegoManoel]

Pensei justamente nisso, antigamente era mais comum, mas algumas delicatessen ainda vendem. Já vi como uma torta de salpicão tbm.

[@ElinaBenado]

My dad is Brazilian, so now I want to ask him about Torta Salgada. Maybe he can make it for me one day. It sounds muito gostoso!

[@izuela7677]

Since you mentioned a sandwich with mashed potatoes, check out Swedish Tunbrödsrulle. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIGmqqecrbOIbbs Basically mashed potatoes+meat wrapped in flatbread. A big tortilla will do if wheat flatbread is not available locally. The most common version is with hotdogs, served with shrimp salad, pickles, onions and ketchup+mustard. But there is also other versions, like meatballs and a bit of brown gravy with the lingonberry yam. Or super thin cut beef steak. Or Grilled chicken. Just butter your flatbread, add mashed potatoes and then add what you like from there!

[@victorcast2467]

We have it in Brazil and it's delicious! We call it Bolo salgado de pão de forma e frango (Loaf Bread Salty Cake) or Bolo Salgado for shorts. We also use seafood, but it's possible to find it with mozzarela cheese, tuna, chicken, ham, and different vegetables. A staple on kids house parties from the 80's that is slowly dying unfortunately, but I personaly still love it.

[@110341]

Swede here, totally approve! It looked absolutely delicious 🤤

[@marna_li]

Both Sweden and Denmark has this tradition of eating sandwiches. I don't say we eat it a lot of it, but we also have Räkmacka (Shrimp sandwich) which is like the little brother of Smörgåstårta. In most cases the type of bread varies. If it is soft bread or rye bread. In Denmark, they have "smørrebrød" which takes lunching with sandwiches to another level. It is small pieces of rye bread with butter and various stuff on top. Either meats or fish. My favorite is roast beef and remoulade. It does get cheaper making them yourself.

[@per-olamjomark7452]

Swede here. I love to make a good smörgåstårta from time to time. It even has its own day (Nov 13th). First time I see edamame beans on one though, creative touch there Beryl! A similar dish from eastern Europe that I really enjoy is dressed herring, colloquially known as herring under a fur coat. It is a layered salad composed of diced pickled herring covered with layers of grated boiled eggs, vegetables (potatoes, carrots, beetroots), chopped onions, and mayonnaise.

[@beneckersley17]

I've never wanted to eat Swedish food more in my life than right now

[@laka0013]

I always requested having smörgåstårta as oppose to a traditional cake on my birthdays growing up as a child. These days I make it on my own in celebration of midsummer or whenever I crave it. If I could only eat one thing for the rest of my life I would without a doubt choose smörgåstårta :)

[@tetepeb]

Im so glad you highlighted the pure seafood Smörgåstårta because there is often a godawful version that is common in Sweden where you have, sliced ham, sliced cheese, cured salmon(lax/lux), fruit (often grapes) and even sometimes crushed Cheese Doodels (Like Cheetos) on the sides and the filling is mostly mayo and it´s an abomination but people buy that crap and i have no idea why because it´s not good. The best Smörgåstårta you do yourself and you keep it pure, either it´s only seafood or only meat/cheese. We have two holy dishes in my family and one of them are my Mothers Smörgåstårta and i can go toe to toe with anybody in saying that it´s one of the best you will ever taste!

[@poppomatic]

Not just in Sweden it's popular, even in the rest of the Nordic countries. We do often serve smörgåstårta here in Finland on birthday and exams parties, sometimes as a weekend treat. It's really expensive to make but the end result is worth it

[@hej100]

I'm not so sure that it is popular in all nordic countries. For example, I've asked some norweigan friends of mine, and they had never even heard of smörgåstårta.

[@hencytjoe]

Smörgåstårta is the fastest way into the heart of the Swedish.

[@jonathankarlsson1766]

A Swede living in Argentina. Here they have the perfect bread for it and nobody knows. Sandwich de miga-torta!

[@poromise]

I make one that has white bread, whole grain bread and black rye bread, and contains a bunch of smoked salmon, eggs, pickles, a ton of cream cheese, sour cream, and a bunch of other things as well. It's quite a weird combo of flavors but it might be my favorite food ever. I can demolish a 1.5 kg cake in a day, easy.

[@christopherx7428]

Smörgåstårta is a great "reception food", e.g. after a baptism, funeral or whatever when you might have a lot of guest mingling. It would be interesting to see you try out how to eat a proper "smörgåsbord", the full Swedish Christmas table. It is a ritual, you need a guide the first time! 🙂

[@LORDOFDORKNESS42]

You can also make a meat based version, with stuff like roast beef and liver pate. Equally delicious, but many prefer the salmon & fish stuff since it tends to be lighter & fluffier stuff.

[@Tintelinus]

Also liver pate is less universally liked (I love the stuff tho)

[@rasmus9311]

The way she said "Skål" at the end was perfect, sounded suspiciously 100% swedish

[@v.bankler283]

Here on the Westcoast of Sweden we use a tuna spread in between the bread and then drench the whole thing in hand peeled shrimps. Also some caviar/roe on top. I added avocado last time and it worked really well.

[@AVI.D]

Her pronunciation of skål is spot on

[@UnlimitedFlyers]

GREAT BIG STORY IS *BAAAAAAAAAAACK* !!!! And Beryl is making food documentaries for it again! DOUBLE AWESOME!!!!!!

[@ricoismydaddy2232]

I love this channel so much!! Been here since you guys left and I’m glad you are back

[@markusolofzon]

Smörgåstårta is probably the best invention us Swedes have come up with!

[@marcelagonzalez8089]

Love it!! I'm Mexican, and we have a version of this called Sandwichon. But there is nothing like this. My mom had a Swedish friend, so this is how I came to eat this.

[@abfleks]

....wait a minute... That "Skål!" at the end was perfect... :)

[@CloeteHenri]

Please try Bunny Chow from South Africa!

[@taraoakes6674]

It might have been a bit softer if you had chilled it overnight. My grandma would make this, but she made the meat version because too many people in the family can’t eat shellfish.

[@BerylShereshewsky]

I did!

[@jennifer1329]

She did!

[@DonJuanMarco1994]

It must be a smorgasbord of wonderful taste.

[@superdestrier9160]

This is just like Russian shuba! It's a cake with layers of herring and root vegetables topped with beets.

[@izuela7677]

The meatball version of this cake usually comes with red beet salad. Made from pickled red beets mixed with sour cream, I think? Never made it myself. Basically looks like dark pink potato salad.

[@giriumground]

I'm just happy that GBS is back

[@tfl-larsm24]

If you want a denser bread, you can definitely do it with sliced Danish rye bread. I once had it like that in Greenland.

[@jameslozano6913]

Love seeing Beryl on this channel!

[@BerylShereshewsky]

Awww yayyyyy❤❤❤❤

[@resh..]

That actually looked Amazing ! 😋 I'd love you to try - " Dholl Puri " - from Mauritius... It's our staple snack / food... it's SO GOOD!

[@bar111a.5]

Both the chef and the girl who made the sandwich cake are so sweet! Thanks for this video, super interesting ❤

[@jennifer1329]

Beryl Shereshewsky has her own channel, too...

[@bar111a.5]

@@jennifer1329 oh, I didn't know that, thanks for the info!

[@op4000exe]

I may be Danish, but god do I love Smörgårstårta, and yet it's basically never served here.

[@alycon4x]

Aquavit or the Red Rooster restaurants in NYC might have been able to make make one for Beryl. But it's also fun to see a homemade version.

[@nocturne7371]

It's the perfect food to serve at gatherings that is not important enough to have a real cake because it's so easy to make and it's extremely easy to scale up. Like end of the schoolyear celebration, gathering after a funeral, special club meetings etc.

[@johanoskarsson8209]

I'm so happy to see this this crazy invention of ours getting some proper representation. It's insane, but it's delicious. Also DAMN, that "skål" at the end couldn't have been more on the money. You sounded like a native speaker.

[@rikardsvensson5940]

"Meat or seafood version" Heck that, here where I´m from they only made one. It had both seafood and meats, and that´s how it´s gonna be done til the day I die. There are different layers so you can have different spreads between them. First ham-onion-apple-cream cheese. Second tuna-onion-creamcheese third liverpate-mayo-pickles fourth classic skagen+eggs, and top layer mayo-creamcheese then ham and sallad on the sides, meatballs, then tomatoes, then eggs, then shrimp and lemon.

[@John-Is-My-Name]

Man every swede here has their own way of doing their smörgåstårta, buying one is really expensive and never is really right I think. But that is because everyone does them different, there is really no wrong way :) Yours looked good

[@Rachelle660]

Essentially it’s just a savoury cake. Great video! I love Vete-Katten 🥰

[@aprilzek]

I'm so glad you're back on GBS, Beryl!

[@AndreeMon8]

In México 🇲🇽 we have something similar called Pastel de Atún, it is made exactly like she made her Smörgåstårta by layering pieces of sandwich bread like a lasagna but topping each layer with a mixture of tuna, mayonnaise, crema, jalapeño, mixed veggies and other different ingredients, and a layer of American cheese. When finishing stacking the bread you cover it all up again with the mixture of tuna and chipotle chile, which adds a little delicious spice. Then, it’s better served freezed, as you do with the smörgåstårta. So yeah, that’s our version of that cake-sandwich and is delicious! 😋

[@98olober]

Smörgåstårta is my favorite food! But it's expensive. I only eat it on birthdays and after funerals

[@usamaepekonis]

A cake with seafood and is also a sandwich? Something fishy is going on here

[@BigboiiTone]

I loved Alyson Hannigan in HIMYM its nice to see her doing other things now

[@duskcat]

Suggestion: Scallion pancakes are delicious!

[@CyclingChefDiane]

Surprised & happy that Beryl is back to GBS.

[@tessml]

Usually served at parties and sometimes a sweet cake is served afterwards as well. I will tell you one thing , a sweet cake after is not necessary, you are FULL after taking one slice of smörgåstårta..

[@TheMiccru]

I would love you to try the Cuban Fufu. It's a bit different then your Fufu that is serve in West Africa. It's made of plantain and has a interesting story as well the other Spanish Caribbean have their own version but in a different twist.

[@Eaglebrace]

The only type of cake i eat, I am not much of a sweet-toothy guy so this is perfect for me. You can make your very own the way you want it which is great.

[@Dlt814]

I had something similar years ago at a fancy “Victorian” tea. It didn’t have shrimp. I can’t remember if it had salmon or just veggies. It was frosted in cream cheese and decorated with pansies. It was like nothing I had eaten before and absolutely delicious.

[@emdegn1904]

YAY!! As a Scandi myself this makes me so happy that you made! I make with rye to represent my Danish side but it's so good any way!

[@danielledetlie6882]

Oh my gosh my mom grew up in Sweden and I remember the first time I had this as a kid. I was so confused by the concept of it lolllll

[@elsalaiho1699]

If you're so inclined, I'd love for you to do a vide on Karelian pies! They're pretty simple to make - a rye flour crust and a rice porridge or mashed potato filling, and eat them with a mixture of butter and boiled egg mashed into pieces on top, but freshly baked ones are so delicious, and it'd be amazing to see you do a video on it!

[@allanovelha1969]

Hey, we call that cake as salt cake in my country, we do just one simple recipe with carrots, maionese and bread, mechpotato i guess (don't really know the recipe), but there is no variation as far as I know. I don't know who brought this to my country, but it has a pleasant taste I must say

[@Whalebay]

You should do a story about Norwegian brown cheese. It's unlike anything else!

[@jennifer1329]

Gjetost?

[@SpicyCurryWurst519]

Im going to make this soon. Thanks!

[@GreatBigStory]

You're welcome 🙌 Let us know how your homemade smörgåstårta goes! 😁

[@Rakadis]

As a Norwegian I am intrigued and disgusted at the same time. I know all the ingredients and eat them regularly as a _sandwich_. But you have to be that special kind of insane to make a cake out of it. And this instantly makes the list of why we Norwegians like to lovingly pick on our great Swedish neighbours.

[@elsalaiho1699]

Meanwhile over in Finland it's not... it's less common than the video gives an impression of it being in Sweden, but it's not unheard of, I've definitely been to several different social functions where it's been served

[@ZyXxOmAn]

It's not really a cake though, and it doesn't taste like a pastery cake lol

[@leonbrander90]

It's not a sweet cake. Chill.

[@SirSquigglemarz]

You're one to speak... haven't you seen your own cuisine? At least the Swedes aren't boring 😂

[@_loss_]

It's a multilayered sandwich. What are you trying to pick on?

[@petkamoravcikova]

There's a storybook in my country about a cat and a dog (those are their names as well). One of the most memorable stories is where they make a cake, putting literally everything they like in it. In the end, it tastes and looks weird because the flavours clash. For some reason, this video reminded me of that. God knows why.

[@BigboiiTone]

As a swede i love the way she says "truly!"

[@E-jit]

Edamame beans? That was an interesting take, I’ll have to try that sometime 😊🇸🇪

[@BannersglareTheDreamWriter]

You could say the smörgåstårta is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

[@nickyges]

As a chilean, I want try this creamy sandwich cake called the Smörgåstårta

[@annasahlstrom6109]

I love Sweden!

[@lbednaz]

No stopping Beryl! I'm only surprised she tried to buy one!

[@heyayay]

In northern Mexico and deep south Texas we have something similar called Sandwichon

[@deeelle6744]

As you're adventuring into Scandinavian delicacies, please try Norwegian Lutefisk. It was the dish we enjoyed (endured) on Christmas eve. My mom was Norwegian yet my English father, who was a cook, learned and mastered this dish in honor of his love for her.

[@khawlahazwar7475]

I'm not swedish and I just heard about this cake sandwich for the first time and I know I will love it since I love seafood 😋

[@MaddieFishblob]

Dang-couldn’t find a single one in New York! Even cooler that they’re making this vid then-it certainly taught me about a delicious looking dish I never knew existed 🔥

[@Amaling]

From outside looking in, this just looks like an overwhelming amount of Mayo and Seafood. Definitely gonna try it when in Sweden though, so cool recommendation!

[@BerylShereshewsky]

I used a mix of cream cheese and Mayo!

[@noka283]

I'm in love 💕 this looks delicious

[@nottherealRohaNNNN]

yayy beryl is backk !!!

[@GreatBigStory]

Our resident foodie! She's amazing ☺

[@kurtisburtis]

your interpretation was very pretty and looked tasty! (Darn, now I may have to make one … 😊)

[@SeaOfMany]

This looks great When I’m in Sweden I’m eating dis

[@ammaranuar2544]

The healthiest cake ever

[@dadcelo]

We have something similar in Brazil!

[@0tid]

I love the smörgåstårta!

[@nabra97]

I have never heard about it, but it kinda makes sense.

[@Racoonma392]

I'm not sure what it's called in english (maybe candied potatoes) but its Chinese name is 拔丝土豆. They're fried potatoes with melted sugar coating them and they taste amazing

[@maiqueemidio6372]

Its look delicious!!!

[@chiaradamore-klaiman8692]

I love everything about this video.

[@Mimulus2717]

The Swedish food KZbinr, Malin, from Good Eatings channel makes a really delicious vegan version of Smorgastorta. Personally I like a torta made with dark rye bread.

[@speedywiz]

thanks Beryl, looks yummy! 😋

[@ArgaAnders]

Smörgåstårta ftw!!!

[@joits]

Kare kare from the Philippines

[@Wabuu-zoo]

Sick, glad to see us represented

[@GreatBigStory]

🇸🇪❤

[@TillerMicroSkiffs]

Where has this been my whole life?!?! My family is Swedish and never heard of this... The queen of sandwiches!

[@vincentgandee8485]

Hur har ni kunnat missat det.? Hur svensk är din familj?

[@TillerMicroSkiffs]

@vincentgandee8485 too many years in America I guess...

[@pplesandoranges]

You want a proper sweet sandwich-cake? _Introducing_ : the *Hong Kong-style French toast* Basically a fried peanut butter sandwich.

[@ElinaBenado]

It would be amazing if you could research and try cooking Pancit Bihon (a Filipino noodle dish). My Filipino mom cooks it for me and I'd love to see you try it! It's incredibly delicious 🇵🇭

[@djperryboy]

Can be done much better according to me, but hey a really good try for being the first time. But I never heard about serving it the next day. I always serve it the same day. I recommend that you try to roll sliced ham and roll slices of cheese and put one cheese, one ham, one cheese one ham and so on all around the top of the cake. Then maybe cucumber and pickled herring or chicken on top in the middle. For filling between the layers of the bread i suggest any kind of flowers that goes with the theme like beetroot sallad, mimosa sallad etc. or you can also have tube cheese like messmör, kaviar, reindeer cheese or any of your liking. I suggest also if you can get it sliced horse meat instead of the rolled ham. It gives a slightly stronger taste to it. Last but not least I recomment to fill this ham or horse meat with pepparrotsfyllning (horse radish paste).

[@djperryboy]

It should be sallad, not flowers lol

[@nectar-ines]

I used to like it more when the videos focused on the topic and the people involved in it rather than trying vague DIYs in the video. If these are meant to celebrate stories not everyone knows about, why force the American perspective into it?

[@partypoison27]

I agree, now most of the video spends time just showing this lady’s face that is not very likable. It would be nicer if you go back to telling other people’s stories and experience. we have plenty of american bloggers. no one asked for this

[@nxdxVic]

It was supposed to highlight the Swedish sandwich cake and the girl had to make it about her , ruined it

[@mooncake8254]

That look so tasty! Honestly it's high class dish .

[@Nekotaku_TV]

I don't like shrimp, which is very common on it, but smörgåstårta is so damn good! There are many variants, so bad how she didn't cover that. And the one they focused on isn't even the typical one, it's missing liver pâté and crème fraiche. And she's just using one filling over and over. And never seen one with long chives sticking up around it like that haha. Not easy to eat those.

[@djockom]

I love it