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What happens when a pastry chef swaps her kitchen for Scandinavian cabins

From Delo · () Slovenian

Translated from Slovenian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Slovenian cake artist Petra Sodja spent more than a month travelling through Scandinavia with her family and baking equipment.
  • She created 12 desserts inspired by landscapes and cabins in Sweden and Norway, often improvising without standard kitchen equipment.
  • The project became a sweet travelogue combining baking, nature and the Scandinavian idea of friluftsliv.

For more than a month, cake artist Petra Sodja traded a conventional kitchen for small cabins in the Scandinavian wilderness. She travelled with her family, baking equipment and ingredients, and created desserts inspired by the places around her.

In Sweden, a fairytale-like cottage with daisies sparked one creation. In Norway, blueberry forests, fjords and a simple way of life provided the inspiration. The cabins often lacked ordinary kitchen equipment, so Sodja had to improvise.

At times, she used a gas oven that baked sponge cake in its own unpredictable way. The journey produced 12 new desserts and a sweet travelogue blending baking, nature and Scandinavian friluftsliv.

“Modesty is an expression of true luxury,” Sodja said. The full story, travel photographs and Scandinavian desserts appear on odprtakuhinja.si.

Modesty is an expression of true luxury.

· Petra SodjaShe described the simple way of life that influenced her Scandinavian baking project.
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