Smörgåstårta (swedish Sandwich Cake)

Total Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 18 slices bread, or 18 slices rye meal
• 1 small fennel
• 9 asparagus, cooked
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoons dill
• 1/4 cup capers
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 cup spinach leaves
• 6 shrimp, cooked or 6 ounces smoked salmon, sliced
• 3 hard-boiled eggs

Recipe

• 1 use a biscuit cutter or large glass to cut the bread into rounds so that you have 18 rounds of bread.
• 2 chop fennel and asparagus into chunks, reserving the asparagus bulbs for later. in a food processor, mix fennel, asparagus, cream cheese, mayonnaise, dill, and capers.
• 3 spread cream cheese filling onto 12 of the bread rounds and stack to 6 sandwiches. top each one with another plain bread round.
• 4 use a hand blender or mixer to whip the remaining cream cheese and sour cream together. spread sour cream mixture around the outside and top of the cakes.
• 5 press spinach leaves around the outside of the cakes.
• 6 decorate the top of each cake with a shrimp or slice of salmon, half of a boiled egg, and asparagus buds.
• 7 garnish with dill sprigs and/or lemon slices.