What's an ebelskiver, you may ask? Good question. We'll get there.
But first, an alternative title to this blog post:
No One Got Me a Babycakes Doughnut Maker For My Birthday.
(isn't it CUTE???)
But that actually turned out to be good news... because, COME ON!! ME with a doughnut maker in the house? Yes, they are better for you than store-bought doughnuts because you're making them with your own fantastic ingredients and they are not deep fried, but COME ON!! It would be as bad as unlimited potato chips in my house. There are some things I just Can't Stop Eating.
ANYhoo... where was I??
Oh, yeah... my birthday. I do have to tell you now that I received THE most phenomenal presents EV-ER!! Really and TRULY!! And it was the Best Birthday Ever!! So don't cry for me because I didn't get a doughnut maker. I didn't (cry, that is...).
Instead, I Got Creative.
I found the doughnut recipe which I had I printed out back when I thought someone was getting me a doughnut maker for my birthday (hmmm... I DO keep bringing it up, don't I?! ;)... and, as I was when I first saw the ads for the gadget, I was CRAVING THEM from looking at the photo.
And then I realized: I can make pseudo-doughnut HOLES with my ebelskiver pan.
NOW you can ask: What is an ebelskiver? It's this pan:
I got mine from Williams-Sonoma and, like many of my foodie gadgets, they get put away after the excitement dies down, not to be brought out again into the light of day for many many moons (yes, this WOULD have happened to my doughnut maker... you know, the one I didn't get for my birthday...).
In fact, I bet if YOU have an ebelskiver pan, you're feeling a little bit guilty about making that investment and then ignoring it for so long. I Hear You. I, personally, was tired of the pancake batter ebelskivers... and yet OH SO EXCITED when I thought of DOUGHNUT EBELSKIVERS!!
And so, I took the print-out of the Babycakes Doughnut Maker Recipe and I proceeded to make these DELICIOUS DOUGHNUTS.
{[(erf ~ I have made a commitment to not spell doughnuts as donuts, but I must say, my fingers do NOT want to put that g before the h for some reason and I have to keep correcting it and it would have been easier if I had just given in and called them DONUTS from the very beginning... BUT NOW I'VE COME TOO FAR TO TURN BACK!!)]}.
Oh, are you still waiting for the recipe? Well, if you have stuck with me for this long, here it is:
Babycakes Sour Cream Doughnut Recipe,
Adapted for Ebelskiver Use
Ingredients:
1⅓ cups all-purpose flour
⅓ cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup milk
¼ cup vegetable oil
¼ cup sour cream
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
(I used less vanilla and added a large-ish dash of nutmeg to the ingredients and IT IS SO YUMMY!!)
Directions:
Combine dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
In separate bowl whisk together remaining ingredients. Pour liquid ingredients into dry ingredients. Whisk vigorously until smooth.
Fill each ebelskiver reservoir with enough batter to fill it up. Proceed as you would with the pancake-batter ebelskivers, but continually turn them around and around, as the filling of this batter is much thicker and takes longer to cook through thoroughly (I turned the heat down and let them cook, rotating them to get all the sides covered).
Coat with powdered sugar or cinnamon-sugar, as desired (or better yet, dredge them in that melted butter that you're using to butter the ebelskiver reservoirs and THEN coat them with cinnamon sugar!!).
Note added 11/29/2011: I just made these and forgot the sugar AND the oil. The no-sugar doughnuts were still edible and delicious, as I just dipped them in a little more cinnamon sugar ~ then I added sugar to the rest of the batter. But I honestly do not notice the absence of the oil at ALL ~ in fact, they seem to hold together better without any oil in them. So, yeah ~ mine will be made sans oil from now on!
Yes. Please. More. Please.
As always, EnJOY!
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