Ebelskivers offers 40 mouthwatering recipes for the Danish-style pancakes, ranging from traditional to whimsical and everything in between. This book includes everything you need to know to make and fill these treats, plus step-by-step photographs and recipes for sauces, toppings, and glazes. Originally from Denmark, ebelskivers (pronounced "able-skeevers") are snacks or desserts traditionally served during holidays and at celebrations. Today, cooks offer these puffy, sphere-shaped pancakes with a wide range of sweet and savory toppings and fillings, varying them in countless creative ways. Making ebelskivers requires little more than ingredients you probably already have on hand-milk, eggs, flour-and a special seven-welled pan that forms the pancakes' unique shape. Everything you need to know about making these treats is from mixing the batter; to cooking and filling the pancakes; to tips for creating perfect ebelskivers every time. Filled with luscious photographs and more than forty tempting recipes, this book will provide endless inspiration for any occasion. Served any time of day, these delicious recipes will change the way you look at pancakes forever!
Most Danish cookbooks give a basic Aebleskiver recipe for these wonderful pancake balls...that term doesn't sound nearly as good as they are. The recipe I've been using from the Solvang cookbook sourced from www.aebleskiver.com/solvangbook.htm is scrumptious. I modify the recipe to reduce the fat, so less butter, and it is still moist and tasting like it's got much more fat in it than it has. I basically serve with jam and icing sugar sprinkle or broiled with melted cheese and herbs. They are versatile. Though they look like donut holes they are not that sweet, so can be easily made savoury.
What are aebleskiver? Here are some images to see the many varieties, as well as the aeblskiver pans you'll need to make them: http://www.google.ca/search?client=sa...
Now, back to the book. Oh, deliciousness! In the categories, you have your basic, sweet, savoury, and batters. I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so it is the savoury that draws my attention. Here are some of the recipes: Herb & Goat Cheese, Miniature Stove-Top Cheese Soufflés, Potato & Green Onion, Mushroom & Pancetta, Tomato-Stuffed Polenta Cakes, Smoked Salmon & Dill, Fig & Prosciutto. Please excuse me as I salivate.
For you sweet lovers, here are some of the recipes: Cherry-Almond, Double-Blackberry, Banana-Rum, PB & J, Chocolate Truffle, Salted Caramel-Pecan, Molten Chocolate, Orange Cream. Yeah...that's all sounding good even to me.
If I had a gripe, it's that while photographs are supplied for most recipes, they don't cover all. Me being that visual type person I want to see a picture for each and every recipe. However, I can totally forgive that because the book is so visual and delectable!
My aebleskivers come out rounder than the ones in this book, but that may be due to pan style variations. Mine is a Lodge Pro-Logic, find at http://www.amazon.com/Lodge-Pro-Logic...
This is obviously not a particularly useful cookbook for most people. However, I do rather enjoy ebelskivers, and this one has instructions for several (pretty good) batters, and is certainly full of good ideas that one can riff on.
Edit, 10 March 2015: Having now cooked multiple ebelskivers from this book -- these are good ebelskivers. Raising from 3 stars to 4.
A kindle read for us, when Aidan was preparing his World Fair booth on Denmark. We've been making them for yrs, since Gramare gifted us the pan, so it was nice to learn more about them and all the varieties.
At the same time, it reminded me of a recipe book for smoothies----all either require is a little imagination or experimentation, so not necessarily a recommended purchase.
Although I have not made any of the recipes, I loved reading about the history of ebelskivers and how simple they are to make. I have 2 grandkids that live with me, and I found that these are great for making kids breakfast. I am now on a mission to achieve that and more. Very happy with the choice of recipes, too!
I’ve seen these little pancakes but never explored how to make them. This is a well organized cookbook and easy to follow. I’m a baker and I like how the basic batter is the same and you change the spices and filling to change the recipe. My imagination is going to take me to new places. I have the electric pancake cooker for making them.