Burger King serves up a new, limited-time dessert burger for Lent over in Denmark.
Burger King’s Semla Burger options a layer of marzipan cream, a brownie “patty”, and a layer of whipped cream sandwiched between two halves of a pearl-sugar-topped cardamon bun.
The dessert burger symbolize Burger King’s tackle a semla or Mardi Gras bun, which is a Swedish candy bun that was as soon as solely eaten earlier than the fasting interval of Lent on Fats Tuesday (i.e. Mardi Gras). These days, yow will discover them in Sweden and several other close by international locations, together with Denmark, a bit after Christmas via Easter (much like how we discover quick meals fish sandwiches right here within the US).
The semla is usually a cardamon-spiced wheat bun crammed with almond paste (which is analogous to marzipan) and whipped cream. Initially, it was only a plain bun that was soaked in heat/sizzling milk earlier than consuming however, apparently, folks ultimately received bored with that and added almond paste and whipped cream in some unspecified time in the future. The addition of the brownie seems to be Burger King’s try to make it look extra like a burger.
Photograph by way of Burger King Denmark.
