Mustikkapiirakka Blueberry Pie appears as a signature dish in 1 Finland cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Mustikkapiirakka (blueberry pie) · Helsinki
A soft, cake-like pie base topped with Finnish forest blueberries set in a light quark or cream custard. The taste of late summer, eaten with coffee.
Finnish forests yield small, dark, intense bilberries that locals pick by the bucket under everyman's-right access laws each summer. Baked into a soft pulla-style base with a quark or cream custard, mustikkapiirakka is the country's everyday summer pie, sold in every cafe and market hall from July onward and eaten with coffee.
Where to eat in Helsinki:
- Way Bakery
- Konditoria Hopia
- Cafe Regatta