This month's book for Book Club was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Steig Larsson.
In honor of the Swedish author and setting, I decided to make Swedish Pancake Cupcakes. Basically, I made a Sour Cream Vanilla cupcake, filled it with Lingonberry Jam, and topped it with Buttercream Frosting with a bit of the Lingonberry mixed in.
The difficult thing was finding the Lingonberry Jam, which I finally found in an odd little German store called Lehr's in Noe Valley. It wasn't even jam, it was sauce, but it worked fine and provided that wonderful sweet-tart flavor.
The cupcakes themselves turned out well. The particular recipe that I used had a lot of butter in it, which made for a nice, slightly caramelized top to the cupcakes. I added a piece of German berry candy to each one, found at the same store as the Lingonberry Sauce.
They tasted great after a couple of healthy servings of Swedish Meatballs, made by my friend and the hostess, Nysa.
