I don’t even remember how I found the original concept. I was searching for something else entirely and along the way, an egg salad sandwich cake popped up in my results. I immediately decided that the next time I hosted coffee hour at church, such a thing would definitely be involved. By a beautiful coincidence, Maria’s first weekend home for the summer and our deacon’s last Sunday before a new assignment coincided and were the perfect excuse to make this:
It is easily one of the silliest things ever to come out of my kitchen and it doesn’t even come close to rivaling the examples you will find if you search for it by name, which I heartily recommend doing. Smörgåstårta is a Swedish treat. It translates literally to ‘sandwich cake’. The sandwich fillings can be anything you would normally put in a savory tea sandwich, but with multiple layers (ours was egg salad, avocado, and more egg salad). It then gets covered with a mayonnaise-cream cheese icing and elaborate decorations that are meant to hint at what is inside.
I honestly thought I would be taking most of it back home with me, but it was a big hit. Silly or not, I will probably be making this again!