A delicious collaboration with our friends at Burlap & Barrel, our summer Limited Batch Cardamom Bun Almond Butter is finally here!
Limited Batch Cardamom Bun highlights the beauty of Burlap & Barrel’s Cloud Forest Cardamom and Royal Cinnamon, sourced directly from smallholder farmers for unmatched taste, traceability, and quality. These fragrant, warming spices are lusciously swirled throughout our heirloom Mission almond base, sweetened with a touch of Organic coconut nectar, and balanced with dashes of Jacobsen Sea Salt and pure vanilla from The Sweetest Bean to create our ode to one of our favorite pastry case classics, the Swedish cardamom bun.
Cardamom has been present in Sweden for centuries, but it wasn’t until the past 100 years or so that the spice became more accessible to the working class. Similarly, sweet buns, usually consisting of a yeasted dough flavored with spices and twisted into a knot-like shape and glazed with sugar, have been integral to Swedish dining—especially the culturally integral fika (“coffee break” for us English speakers)—for decades. Originally only offered at bakeries, these sweet buns became more accessible for home bakers to create in the 1950s when the cost of butter, sugar, and other integral ingredients decreased following WWII. While cardamom has always been in the dough of many popular offerings, it only became a staple Swedish flavor of the sweet bun in the past 15-20 years, in part due to the rise in popularity of the cardamom bun in other major world cities.
We love Cardamom Bun atop fresh pancakes, smeared thickly on toast with fresh fruit, spooned into yogurt bowls, or for a lovely transportive treat, straight from the jar. Only here through September 30!