Aebleskiver's

On my last post, Rachel asked what aebleskiver's were, so this post it for her and anyone else who cares. :)

Aebleskiver (Danish meaning apple slices (singular: aebleskive) are traditional Danish pancakes in a distinctive shape of a sphere. Somewhat similar in texture to American pancakes crossed with a popover, æbleskiver are solid like a pancake but light and fluffy like a popover. The English language spelling is usually aebleskiver or ebleskiver. We have ours with jam and powdered sugar or just like pancakes with butter and syrup. You could also had jam to the middle of them when cooking.

In the United States, a version of æbleskiver is sold with a commercially repackaged pan, branded as "Pancake Puffs".

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This is what they look like..............

Aebleskiver are cooked on the stove top by baking in a special pan with several hemi-spherical indentations in the bottom of the pan. The pan exists in versions for gas and electrical stoves (the latter with a plain bottom). Pans are usually made of cast iron, allowing good heat conduction. Traditional models in hammered copper plate exist but are today used primarily for decoration.

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This is what mine looks like..............