Bageri Kompass

Rating: 4/5

Round lid. Nice swirl. Not an excessive amount of cream. Slivers of roasted almonds visible under the cream and on the paste.

The paste had plenty of roughly chopped roasted almonds, with a wide range of sizes.

Two nice things with the chopped almonds are the added crunch, plus the fullness of flavour from the roasting helps balance the sweetness of the sugar (and bun).

The bun was a little "wholemeal" in appearance, which when I've seen something similar (at Stora Bageriet for example), it was Ölands flour that they used. Bageri Kompass have told me they use flour from @limabackakvarn. It certainly gives a distinct flavour to the bun.

It's an improvement on semlors I've tested in previous seasons from their Pascal bakeries, but I'd still like to see a bit more cardamom in the bun.

For my new closest bakery, this was a very pleasing semla. So nice to be able to give my local a high rating!