Vinarterta The Delicious Striped Icelandic Cake™
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What is Vinarterta The Delicious Striped Icelandic Cake.™?
Some recipes are more than recipes. Vinarterta is one of them. Vinarterta and Icelandic North American culture are one and the same. It is us.
This striped Icelandic celebration cake has been on family tables since 1875: seven thin vanilla cake layers filled with fruit and finished with vanilla-almond buttercream. Our version comes from our Amma’s family recipe in Riverton, Manitoba, brought from Iceland by the Pioneers and made with Pure Love and Pioneer Spirit.
Why people love it:
- Handmade with the highest quality ingredients
- Not too sweet, with lots of unique flavour in every slice
- Generous servings and exceptional value by weight
- Keeps for months, if it lasts that long
- No additives or preservatives
- Remarkable packaging and gift cards
Flavours: traditional cardamom plum, apricot, cranberry-rhubarb, and new Chocolate Licorice made with imported Icelandic candy.
It’s perfect for Christmas, birthdays, weddings, dinner parties, coffee time, or “just because.”
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Vinarterta The Delicious Striped Icelandic Cake. Made with Pure Love and Pioneer Spirit.
Vinarterta Icelandic Cake is an historic Icelandic celebration cake, a special and everyday delight. 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’.
I’m honoured that Lögberg-Heimskringla featured our Vinarterta in “More Than a Cake: The Living Tradition of Vínarterta” by Katrín Níelsdóttir.
It all began in 2011 with a broken arm and a rolling pin as rehab. Fourteen Christmases later, every cake is still made by hand. Each 5 KG / 11 LB Amma Sized Vinarterta takes about four hours and uses custom-milled Ontario flour, our own handmade jams, local creamery butter, Icelandic sea salt, housemade extracts and fresh ground spices.
About 80% of our customers come back year after year. For many families, this cake now stands in for an Amma who can no longer bake. We’re here for you! “I do not compete with an amma, or an auntie, or a mom.”
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Icelandic Farm Fest Celebrates Iceland National Day! Join us on Saturday June 20, 2026 at Kimber Valley Farm 11 – 4PM. Book Your Spot in Advance!
The Day Iceland Stood Still Hot Docs World Premier Sold Out in Toronto in 2024 and continues to receive awards across the globe in 2025!
“The Day Iceland Stood Still documentary is a worldwide cri de coeur.” – The Globe and Mail
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.”
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