Have you ever heard of an Æbleskiver or Kanom Krok?  If not, don’t worry, I hadn’t either. Until I was perusing the Williams-Sonoma catalog a few weeks ago and saw a cool pan for pancakes that looked more like big donut holes.  Intrigued, I researched online and found that Æbleskiver is a traditional dish in Denmark and all through Scandinavia.  Both the pan and the pancakes are called aebleskiver. It is a sweet pancake batter made from flour, eggs, milk, and butter that is poured into the depressions of the special cast-iron pan. They are partially cooked, then filled and rolled, and rotated with a special metal tool that looks like a chopstick or knitting needle, until the batter is cooked uniformly into balls that are brown and crisp.

the starter kit includes the pan, turner, pot holder sleeve, and a package of organic batter mix

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