Norwegian Wafer Cookies (Krumkakes)

Name: Norwegian Wafer Cookies (Krumkakes)
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: makes About 2 Dozen
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; 4 eggs; 9 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled; 1 tsp. ground cardamom; 1 ⁄ 2 tsp. vanilla extract; 1 1 ⁄ 2 cups flour; 2 tbsp. baking powder; Sweeted whipped cream; Confectioners' sugar, to garnish

Serves
makes About 2 Dozen

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These Norwegian wafer cookies, eaten across Scandinavia during the Christmas season, are light and crisp and perfumed with cardamom. They're made like waffles on a special griddle that imprints an intricate design, and then they're rolled and filled with whipped cream.

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
4 eggs
9 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 tsp. ground cardamom
¹⁄₂ tsp. vanilla extract
1 ¹⁄₂ cups flour
2 tbsp. baking powder
Sweeted whipped cream
Confectioners' sugar, to garnish

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Instructions

Step 1

In a bowl, whisk together sugar and eggs. Whisk in 8 tbsp. butter, cardamom, and vanilla. Sift flour and baking powder into batter; whisk. Heat a krumkake maker; brush with remaining butter. Add 1 heaping tbsp. batter to each mold. Close cover; cook until wafers are golden, 45–60 seconds. Wrap 1 wafer around a krumkake cone; let harden. Remove from cone; repeat. Repeat with remaining batter. Let cool. Pipe cream into krumkakes; dust with sugar.