"Fake" Danish Aeble Kage?
So my sister in law is Danish and I am always begging her to make (a)ebelskiver, the yummy Danish pancakes. We have a joke that when I was little, I thought they were apple related and would always ask for "the apple things".
For Christmas this year as a joke, she INSTEAD gave me the fixings for Aeble Kage--which translated I guess means Apple Cake. The fixings were: Amaretti cookies, apple sauce, and an airline sized bottle of Amaretto liqueur--all arranged in a trifle bowl. Her instructions said to layer the apple sauce, and amaretti cookies with whipped cream and drizzle with the Amaretto.
Maybe it was just the liqueur, but I found this to be a (strangely) good combo! I wouldn't necessarily make this for guests again, but I have found myself combining these ingredients for dessert for myself!
Has anyone ever heard of this dessert before? When I did a search online for Able Kage recipes, I found mostly cake recipes....except for one that called for layering apples, whipped cream and bread crumbs, which sounded pretty similar to me.
I am just extremely curious to find out if this is a common dessert, or unique to my sister-in-law's family?
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5 Comments:
Hi CuocoECanto,
Well, I used to live in Denmark (as a teenager) and now live in Norway, and I've been thinking about this question all afternoon. All I can say is that while I don't remember ever being served this, it sounds completely plausible as a Danish dessert. Also asked my Norwegian partner who has spent a lot of time in Denmark, and he couldn't remember it either, but agreed that it was absolutely a possibility.
Sorry I don't know for sure. I'll ask around over the upcoming days.
caley at 11:52AM on 09/20/08
but of course what you described is nothing like æbleskiver :-)
caley at 11:53AM on 09/20/08
I found a recipe for it. This is the website http://www.mindspring.com/~cborgnaes/coffeeca_frame.html. It is a collection of 600 Danish recipes.
Here is the recipe:
Apple Coffee Cake - Æblekage
* 2 cups milk
* 1 package dry yeast
* 4 cups flour
* ½ cup melted butter
* ½ cup sugar
* ½ lemon rind -- grated
* 3 eggs -- beaten
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* 2 tablespoons almonds -- chopped
* Apples
Prepare dough as in Old Danish Yeast Coffee Cake, spreading on baking pans or cookie sheets to a thickness of about ½ inch before second rising.
When well risen, peel apples, cut into ½-inch slices and arrange on dough. Sprinkle well with a mixture of sugar, cinnamon, and a pinch of nutmeg, if you wish.
Bake 10 minutes in a preheated 400º oven. Lower heat to 375º and bake until a toothpick inserted in th ecenter comes out clean.
For a sweeter cake, sprinkle powdered sugar over the cake after it comes out of the oven.
Cherries may be substituted for apples in the above recipe.
jennywren at 2:04PM on 09/20/08
What she instructed you to do was make a parfait. Which is as fancy as you like or not.
You can apply that formula to anything. Brownies, blondies, pound cake, it is a trifle like dessert.
Flavor your whipped cream. It is quick and painless to make.
JerzeeTomato at 3:44PM on 09/20/08
The Danish traditional Æblekage (translates Apple cake) has nothing to do with a cake. It is not baked in an oven.
Here is a recipe which follows the one made in the 1800 century and are still made this way. As far as I know it is a dessert well known all over Denmark - and I am a Danish Dane from Denmark more than 50 y/o ;-)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/danishapplecake_12777.shtml
Enjoy ...
viking at 9:34AM on 03/19/09