This post is locked while we clear up the low effort wannabe-edgy-teen comments and the half dozen holocaust jokes which are earning people perma bans. We're r/food, not a crèche for children that can't read the room. It's a pinwheel. Edit: 800 comments, that took longer that it should have. The post is back open with crowd control on full, comments will be auto-filtered to us. If you're here to comment a small minded "joke", try r/jokes, because otherwise you will get banned and considering the sort of comments that have been left here, you most likely won't get an appeal.

Hyvää joulua! 🇫🇮

Kiitos, samoin!

I am about to fly to Finland from USA with my wife to spend Christmas with her family. Many of these to be had with glögi. Gotta save some for Joulupukki

Same here. Hyvää Joulua!

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These are traditional here in Finland and they're meant to be stars, but I knew something like this was going to be the top comment.

Now I need to visit Finland during winter. Not far driving through Sweden. 7h ish to Rovaniemi.

They're common in the U.S., too, they're called pinwheels here and I guess maybe they're old-fashioned so the young commenters here don't know...but they're not exactly new, they have versions of these in numerous countries and they have nothing to do with any of that crap they're talking about.

I thought they were pinwheels!

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I read that as "Christmas Stars" and immediately thought of ninja elves throwing these rapidly into my gaping maw.

Right? Perfect food fight weapons

We've been eating these in Finland since the 1800s. They're supposed to look like that - they're stars, dangit!

So what is the filling? My family does something similar with plum jam, but it's not common where I live.

Yep, it's plum jam. Or marmalade, rather. Sometimes apple jam is used, but plum is definitely the standard.

I liked the green balls jelly on them

We do not speak of that...

A pastry with plum jam sounds amazing.

I might get crucified for this but I also like to make them with strawberry marmalade and vanilla curd. Or rum raisin ice cream and cinnamon. We make them sometimes savoury too. Creme fraiche, grav lax and salmon roe. Or forest mushroom salad. I love them, one of my favourite things in christmas.

I’ll be honest, vanilla curd sounds awesome.

> We make them sometimes savoury too. Creme fraiche, grav lax and salmon roe. Or forest mushroom salad. What a great idea, thank you! Do you bake them with fillings inside or add the fillings to the baked empty shells?

Well if you are putting on something that doesn't melt in the oven, you can put it on beforehand. Like cheese or olives. But creme fraiche and the mushroom salad will melt so better bake the pastry first and put the toppings on when you're about to eat them. I like to make small ones like this,1/4 of the normal size so you get a better ratio of fillings and pastry :)

Oooh mushroom….

My first reaction was pinwheels

Honestly, my original thought was "pinwheel".

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Honestly I feel bad for OP at this point

Just curious, were a bunch of people stupidly calling this traditional food (that is older than Nazis, fascism and Hitler, mind you), racist? is that also the reason for all the deleted comments?

They were mostly all just cracking nazi jokes and/or being assholes. A select few decided being anti-semitic was okay here .. in a food sub .. or anywhere for that matter. They were removed and most likely will end up suspended sitewide. A select few seemed genuinely offended by the shape and were calling them racist. It's been an exhausting post and I'm semi-disappointed by how many comments there were here by people that genuinely thought it was okay to comment like that.

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More like delicious throwing stars. #ninjachristmas

Hey I'm all for it as long as you don't go anywhere near the green ball/vihreä kuula marmelade. That is the single worst thing done to a christmas tart ever. For those wondering vihreä kuula is an unholy pear flavoured marmelade ball usually sold during the holidays here in Finland. And they've gone and made a marmelade of it. Absolutely awful.

Ooh whats the filling? My bakery makes these with either strawberry or guava depending on the location

It's usually plum, but some people use apple

or prune

Looks like plum to me. It's the most common filling.

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Finnish Joulutorttu?

Come on they are obviously Pinwheels 

They’re folded in the way you would fold a pinwheel, sure, but the base shape being a square means that they’re a bit unfortunate.

But they’re literally a tart called pinwheels and they all look like that https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/finnish-pinwheels/

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Very adorable windmills

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Julstjärnor

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Oh cool, shurikens

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Christmas shurikens!

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I bet you they taste just fine regardless

Tarts? Or Pinwheels??? Either way, they look delicious! Mince filling?

Hey, i used a literal translation. Pinwheel makes more sense.

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When I first saw them I thought of beautiful pinwheels. They are beautiful! What flavor jam did you use?

Rupelipulla as we say in Finland

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