Twenty years ago I moved away from Denmark for a while to live in London with my family. We celebrated my son’s first birthday in London! In Denmark, it is a tradition to have a big breakfast on your birthday, and parents have to go to the bakery very early, prepare a big breakfast spread and surprise you. I did not have a baker nearby, so there was only one solution: I had to make the Danish pastries myself. It was not a bad idea, because the pastries turned out beautifully, and it has subsequently become a tradition in our family that I make homemade Danish pastries for everybody’s birthday.