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Sweden gives its food days properly. Not a marketing week — a date, and the whole country eating the same thing on it. There is a day for the cinnamon bun, a day for the semla, and a morning in December that smells of saffron everywhere at once.
These are the dates as they fall here. The ones I bake for are first; the rest of the year is below, because it is worth knowing even where there is nothing to sell you.
Next in the oven’s sights · in 6 weeks
Coffee Day
Sweden drinks more coffee than almost anywhere. Fika is the reason, and something baked is the point.
Tuesday 29 September 2026
I bake to orders in one kitchen, so I plan the big days months out. Names down early is how I decide whether to plan one at all.
Every one of these has something that belongs in a Swedish bakery. Not all of them will get a bake window in the same year — one kitchen, one person — so the ones people ask for are the ones that happen.
Sunday 4 October
2026 · in 7 weeks
Cinnamon Bun Day
The biggest baking day in the Swedish year. Offices order them by the tray. Invented in 1999 by a marketing board, and nobody minds.
Sunday 4 October
2026 · in 7 weeks
Cream Cake Day
Sponge, cream, berries. The birthday cake of an entire country.
Friday 6 November
2026 · in 3 months
Gustavus Adolphus Pastry Day
A pastry with a king's silhouette on top, eaten on the anniversary of his death in 1632. Sweden commemorates with cake.
Saturday 7 November
2026 · in 3 months
Sticky Chocolate Cake Day
Underbaked on purpose. Getting it wrong means baking it properly.
Sunday 8 November
2026 · in 3 months
Father's Day
Cake for dad, in November, which is when Sweden has decided Father's Day falls. Correct.
Saturday 14 November
2026 · in 3 months
Cheesecake Day
Swedish ostkaka is warm, curd-set and served with jam and cream. It is not the other cheesecake.
Sunday 29 November
2026 · in 3 months
First Sunday of Advent
The candle is lit, the pepparkakor tin opens, and the kitchen smells like December for four weeks.
Wednesday 9 December
2026 · in 4 months
Gingerbread Day
Thin enough to snap. Press one on your palm, make a wish, and it has to break in three.
Sunday 13 December
2026 · in 4 months
St Lucia — saffron buns
The darkest part of the year, candles, singing, and lussekatter heavy with saffron. The most Swedish morning there is.
Friday 18 December
2026 · in 4 months
Cookie Day
Just before Christmas, when sju sorters kakor — seven kinds of biscuits — is still a real standard to meet.
Sunday 10 January
2027 · in 5 months
Mazarin Day
A tart of almond paste, butter and eggs in a shortcrust shell. Small, dense, and extremely Swedish.
Tuesday 12 January
2027 · in 5 months
Marzipan Day
Marzipan runs through half the Swedish repertoire — prinsesstårta, punschrullar, the lot.
Thursday 14 January
2027 · in 5 months
Wholegrain Day
Sweden takes wholegrain seriously. This is a day to bake heavy, seeded, honest bread.
Sunday 7 February
2027 · in 6 months
Quinquagesima Sunday
The Sunday that opens semla week. Fettisdagen gets the headlines, but the buns start here.
Tuesday 9 February
2027 · in 6 months
Shrove Tuesday — semla day
A cardamom bun, hollowed, filled with almond paste and cream. The one day of the year a whole country eats the same thing.
Sunday 14 February
2027 · in 6 months
Valentine's Day
Heart-shaped shortbread, hjärtkakor in cardamom and sugar. Sweden is not above a heart.
Friday 19 February
2027 · in 6 months
Crispbread Day
The most Swedish bread there is. Crisp, seeded, keeps for months, goes with everything.
Wednesday 3 March
2027 · in 7 months
Almond Cube Day
A cube of almond cake, dipped in chocolate and rolled in toasted coconut. Elegant in its own compact way.
Sunday 7 March
2027 · in 7 months
Punsch-roll Day
Green marzipan, chocolate-dipped ends. Also called dammsugare — vacuum cleaner — because of what went into it.
Wednesday 17 March
2027 · in 7 months
Raspberry Cave Day
A thumb-pressed shortcrust biscuit with a raspberry jam centre. Sweden's most recognisable little biscuit.
Thursday 25 March
2027 · in 7 months
Waffle Day
Heart-shaped, crisp, with jam and cream. The name is a slip of the tongue from Vårfrudagen — Our Lady's Day.
Sunday 28 March
2027 · in 7 months
Easter Sunday
Påsk means eggs and cardamom and a table that takes two days to set. The baking starts on Good Friday and doesn't stop.
Saturday 10 April
2027 · in 8 months
Sourdough Day
A day for the starter, the long ferment, and the loaf that took three days to make. The only bakery day that is entirely mine.
Thursday 6 May
2027 · in 9 months
Home Baking Day
A day that celebrates the whole point of this business. Everything here is hembaket.
Tuesday 11 May
2027 · in 9 months
Chocolate Ball Day
Oats, cocoa, butter, rolled in coconut. Never baked, made by every Swedish child at least once.
Saturday 15 May
2027 · in 9 months
Cardamom Bun Day
The hero product and the reason this bakery exists, given its own day. Cardamom, butter, a confident twist.
Sunday 30 May
2027 · in 10 months
Mother's Day
Prinsesstårta if you are serious, sju sorters kakor if you have been baking all week. Sweden expects both.
Friday 25 June
2027 · in 10 months
Midsummer Eve
Flowering crowns, dancing around a pole, and an outdoor table that includes bread. The most Swedish night of the year.
Monday 9 August
2027 · in 12 months
Swiss Roll Day
Sponge, jam, rolled. The first thing most Swedes learn to bake.
Months out there is no batch, no cutoff and no price — so this is not an order and nothing is owed either way. It is a name against a date, which is how I work out whether twelve people want semlor before I give up two days to making them.
No window is open at the moment. Registration with the council comes first — putting your name down against a day above is the way to be told when that changes.
Nothing to sell you here. A bakery cannot help with fermented herring and should not pretend otherwise — but the year is not only pastry, and these are the days that make the rest of it make sense.
20 August
Fermented herring day
The tins are opened outdoors, and there is a reason for that. Not a bakery event, and I will not be pretending otherwise.
23 August
Meatball Day
With cream sauce, lingonberries and pressed cucumber. Bread on the side, which is the part I can help with.
6 September
Mushroom Day
Autumn, a basket, and a forest anyone is allowed to walk into. Allemansrätten at its best.
14 October
Prawn Sandwich Day
"Att glida in på en räkmacka" — to glide in on a prawn sandwich — is how Swedes describe an easy ride.
30 April
Walpurgis Night
Bonfires, singing, the first real evening of spring. The Swedes stand outside in the cold and choose to believe it is warm.
6 June
National Day of Sweden
6 June 1523: Gustav Vasa crowned king. Sweden celebrates modestly. There is always herring.
6 June
Pickled Herring Day
National Day, and the herring that goes with it. Bring your own.
Dates shift a little for the movable ones — fettisdagen follows Easter, and two more fall on a particular weekday rather than a number. Those are worked out fresh, so what you see above is this year’s answer, not last year’s. See what I bake.