Vinarterta The Delicious Striped Icelandic Cake™

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Welcome to Arden Jackson’s Vinarterta and Online Artisan Bakery!

Call to Order Toll-Free in North America at 855 518 8100. Monday – Friday 10AM-4PM EST.

What is Vinarterta The Delicious Striped Icelandic Cake.™?

Made with Pure Love and Pioneer Spirit, Vinarterta and Icelandic North American culture are one and the same. It is us.

It’s a distinctively different, refined and storied (and yummy) striped cake handmade with seven thin fragrant vanilla cake layers filled with fruit, then iced with pure vanilla and almond-flavoured buttercream. Traditional with cardamom-flavoured plums, apricot and cranberry-rhubarb are favourites. Simple ingredients, and not too sweet, it packs a lot of unique flavour into a compact serving.

A Culinary time capsule since 1875, Vinarterta has been connecting and nourishing the bodies, hearts and minds of people of Icelandic descent in a multilayered way for generations. Arden Jackson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and has created a cake true to the virtues of her Icelandic Amma’s Riverton, Manitoba family recipe brought from Iceland with the Pioneers. While subtle variations in layers and flavourings are cherished in some family traditions, the recipe is virtually unchanged, while largely unknown in its present form in Iceland today.

Translated as Vienna Torte with European origins, it is made for Christmas, Birthdays, Weddings, Special occasions, Dinner Parties and Coffee Time. Known to keep well for months (if it lasts that long), to disappear spontaneously at gatherings, in paper-thin slivers in private, and to be revered and untouched for an extraordinary time in the refrigerator or freezer anticipating unexpected visits or upcoming celebrations. Now, made to order for everyone to join us in the experience ‘just because’.

The Fall and Winter Celebration Season Has Arrived!

Join us at the Kimbervalley Farm Fall Market 11-4PM on Saturday, September 28!

Fall Market Makers Thanksgiving Offer Ships To You or Pre Order for Pick Up at the Event.

Call To Arrange Pick Up and 10% OFF Your Order 855 518 8100.

Online Shop Limited Time Special at Checkout for 10% OFF Your Order Use Code: FALLFEST

 

2025 is the 150th Anniversary of Icelandic Settlement in North America.

Plan to Visit these legendary Icelandic Summer Festivals in Gimli, Manitoba and Mountain, North Dakota!

Enjoy the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba Íslendingadagurinn August 2-5, 2024 in Gimli, Manitoba!

 

Visit The Deuce of August in Mountain, North Dakota August 1-3, 2024

 

The Day Iceland Stood Still Hot Docs World Premier Sold Out in Toronto!

Congratulations to award-winning Director Pamela Hogan and Icelandic Film Producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir.in support of their Hot Docs Festival World Premiere screening of ‘The Day Iceland Stood Still’, the documentary film about the legendary ‘Woman’s Day Off – Kvennafrídagurinn‘ in October 1975.

The Hot Docs Festival is the largest film festival in North America featuring ‘The Day Iceland Stood Still’ about that historic day in Iceland “When 90% of the women of Iceland walked off the job and out of their homes one fall morning in 1975 refusing to work, cook, or take care of the children, they brought their country to a standstill and catapulted Iceland to the “best place in the world to be a woman.” 

Enjoy our Latest Vinarterta Adventure Story:

Glaze Amazes Guest at Toronto Picnic Event – Technology Meets Outdoor Fun