A joulutorttu (Finnish lit. "Yule tart", Swedish: jultårta; sometimes known as tähtitorttu "star tart") is a Finnish Christmas pastry. It is traditionally made from puff pastry in the shape of a star or pinwheel and filled with prune jam and often dusted with icing sugar. The pastries can be in other shapes and apple used in place of the prune jam.
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Joulutorttus are mostly made in Finland but also in Sweden.
In 2020, a company that sells the dough estimated that the average Finn eats about 18 pieces of joulutorttu each year.[1]
See also
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edit- ^ "Salainen "laminointi" tekee joulutortusta superlehtevää – kone taittelee melkein sata taikinakerrosta" [The secret of "lamination" makes Christmas star tarts super puffy – The machine folds almost a hundred layers of dough]. www.iltalehti.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 4 December 2022.
External links
edit- Media related to Joulutorttu at Wikimedia Commons
- "Glossary of Finnish Dishes". Archived from the original on 21 September 2013.