Photoshop has become my new friend...I've been playing around with all of these different action settings for creating aged pictures, pictures that look like they are in polaroids, etc etc. Please do excuse of all the different washes as I stretch try and learn the application (or let me know which variations you like). My latest photoshop muse, and treat for the weekend...Aebleskivers!

I first read about aebleskivers on the blog 'Baking Bites'...they are a Danish filled pancake made in this special aebleskiver pan. Not even a week after reading about them, I was in my neighborhood thrift store and found an old cast iron aebleskiver pan for $4. Talk about coincidence! On the back of the pan, it even said "Product of Norway", so I was certain it was a good investment. Especially since it would give me an excuse to say "aebleskiver" as much as possible.
Oh, I love my local thrift store for baking equipment finds!

The pancake batter is pretty standard, with the exception of whipped egg whites that help give these pancakes their lift. You can add a dollop of raspberry or strawberry preserves, or a piece or two of apple or other fruit, which ends up in the middle once the pancakes are flipped (many times, these are referred to as "filled pancakes". I'll have to try more fancy variations when CW visits later in the month.



Whipping egg whites into soft peaks by hand is hard work!




I found this quote on Epicurean: "Aebleskiver - a Danish dessert, like doughnut holes, but sweeter and much better traditionally served with glogg during the Advent. Cooked in a cast iron pan that resembles an egg poacher. Serve hot with syrup, jam or powdered sugar."

So apparantly, I'm a bit late making these in February. Oh well! Next, Pat will have to teach us how to make glogg ;-)


Here are links to some recipes and variations...looks like I'll be using this pan alot!

Williams and Sonoma has a ton:
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/srch/recipe.cfm?action=RCP&searchform=1&searchtype=recipe&recipe=filled+pancake

Discussion from Chowhound that references a savory shrimp cake:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/358209

A classic recipe:
http://www.aebleskiver.com/Recipes.htm

This weekend was Morgan Brown's 1st birthday party, and Elizabeth asked me to make the cake for her. It was my first chance to try out the fun new cake decorating toys I got for Christmas! Jason took some photos of me making the cake so I could post them on our blog...

I really love the turn table. It made spreading the icing and doing the fondant work much easier...it worked perfectly, I dont know why I didn't think to use something like that sooner!

And the cake leveler worked like a charm too! I used it to level the tops of the cakes, and to cut the layers in half so I could add more filling between the layers.

Here's a photo of the finished cake...

And one of the birthday girl...