Before the traditional fasting period of the old days, you were supposed to eat really fattening food and the thing you ate right before was a "semla," a wheat bun filled with marzipan and whipped cream.

I didn't get hold of a beauty like the one above today, but I did eat this year's first semla. A bit too much usually, since they tend to be a bit too big for me, but it's still nice and now I don't think I want one for yet another year.

Image from Brödhuset.com.