Krumkake is a Norwegian treat that is made flat on an iron and then quickly rolled into a scroll while still warm. As they cool they set into a crisp tube. My first krumkake iron was a metal one that sat on the stove. A teaspoon of the batter was placed between two plates and when the plates were squeezed together they forced the dab of dough into a thin flat circle. The plates were flipped to cook both sides and then the flat cookie was rolled around a slightly tapered wooden dowel until they cooled.
Now I have an electric krumkake iron that cooks two cookies side by side. It works kind of like a waffle iron, the top and bottom heat so there is no flipping necessary. And with two cookies at a time you are done twice as fast.
krumkake
3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup flour
Beat eggs and sugar until well mixed. Stir in the melted butter and vanilla. Beat in the flour until smooth. Bake on heated iron, 15-20 seconds per side for conventional iron, until slightly browned on electric iron. Immediately shape around a wooden dowel until cool and set.
Finally! Someone else calls them "scrolls" like we do ;-)
ReplyDeleteHi Brenda, sorry to have not responded sooner to your comment. I am trying to catch up. Yes, my grandma always called them scrollers and I am not sure when it was that I learned that they had another name. Maybe when I got my own iron. Thanks for reading and commenting.
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