Pulla

Pulla or nisu is a type of dessert or pastry flavored with cardamom. It's served as coffee table treat with coffee or tea, and typically all around the year. In Finland pulla is typical in cafeterias where it is considered as a sign of quality of the place.

Usually pulla is baked as a small brioche style or as a braided loaf called pullapitko (long loaf pulla). Also popular is korvapuusti, it is havin (Finnish), this sweet, aromatic pastry is sometimes topped with pearl sugar or almond flakes, and usually requires about three hours of preparation. When the dough has risen, it can be braided to make it more decorative and festive. Some variations are topping it with chopped walnuts and vanilla icing, raisins added to the dough, cinnamon rolls, butter and sugar buns called voisilmäpulla, berry toppings and curd filled buns called rahkapulla.

Cardamom-flavored pulla called korvapuusti and buns (Finnish: pulla; Swedish: kardemummabröd, kardemummabullar) are commonly eaten in Finland and Sweden.

Cardamom bread is considered a traditional food among Swedish Americans. Cardamom buns are eaten along with coffee or tea.

Cardamom is a spice used in several Nordic countries in cakes, cookies, and biscuits, including traditional Christmas pastries in the cuisine of Finland.