Æbleskiver

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Æbleskiver (Danish meaning apple slices in English (singular: æbleskive)) are traditional Danish cakes, somewhat similar in texture to American pancakes. Æbleskiver are cooked in a special æbleskive pan, a cast-iron pan with several hemi-spherical indentations in the bottom of the pan. Batter is poured into the indentations and as it begins to cook it is flipped with a skewer to give the cakes their characteristic round shape. They were traditionally cooked with bits of apple (æble) or applesauce inside but these ingredients are not normally included in modern Danish forms of the dish. Æbleskiver are not sweet themselves but are traditionally sprinkled with powdered sugar, accompanied with raspberry or sometimes strawberry jam, and served with gløgg.

Contrast Poffertjes, a similar Dutch cake.

The English language spelling is usually ebleskiver or aebleskiver.

Contents 1 Æbleskiver recipe 1.1 Ingedients 1.2 Directions 2 Celebrations 3 External links

[edit] Æbleskiver recipe

There are many recipes for æbleskiver. The following is offered as an example.

[edit] Ingedients

• 2 egg whites
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons butter, melted
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 1 cup vegetable oil for frying

[edit] Directions

Beat the whites stiff. Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, sugar, melted butter and buttermilk at one time and beat until smooth. Gently fold in the egg whites last.

Put about 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in the bottom of each æbleskiver pan cup and heat until hot. Pour in about 2 tablespoons of the batter into each cup. As soon as they get bubbly around the edge, turn them quickly. Alternatively, you can turn them halfway first, so that the baked crusts protruding from the pan will look like the Sydney Opera House. And after a while you turn them the remaining 90 degrees. This will give them a perfect ball-shape. (Danish cooks use a long knitting needle, but a fork will work). Continue cooking, turning the ball to keep it from burning.

Note: An æbleskiver pan is required to cook these properly.

[edit] Celebrations

In Denmark æbleskiver are associated with Christmas.

In North America there are several annual events that celebrate æbleskiver and Danish culture:

• Aebleskiver Days, July, Dickson, Alberta, Canada, at the Danish Canadian National Museum
• Aebleskiver Days, fourth weekend in July, Tyler, Minnesota
• Danish Days, September, Solvang, California

[edit] External links

• The Story of Aebleskiver (Solvang Restaurant, Solvang, California)
• Information and Recipes