The danish people are completely mad about Christmas ... It has almost become a seance that lasts from mid October to sometime in January. December is called "Christmas month", as if Christmas has been extended to a full 31 days of celebration. While this holiday season has been blown completely out of proportion, the traditional dishes has not been changed at all and when December comes it is time for Aebleskiver.
It may surprise you that there are no apples needed in the recipe (aebleskiver means "Apple-slices in danish). I believe that originally it was large slices of apple dipped in a dough mix and then fried or deep fried, but i am not sure of that. I have also heard that small slices of apple was put inside the balls in this recipe, but I am not sure if that is true either.
Anyhow, for this dish, you need a custom pan with holes like half spheres - an aebleskive-pan as it is called. I don´t know if it is readily available where you live, but it is the only way to make it to have such a pan.
You need
200 grams of flour
3 dl of milk (300 grams)
30 grams of yeast
1 teaspoon of sugar
3 eggs
Butter
Powdered sugar
Raspberry jam
I use equivalent dry yeast, but fresh yeast should be dissolved in the milk first. Mix the flour, sugar and add the milk (and yeast) while stirring.
Add the eggs one at a time and mix well. Let it rest for an hour in the bowl. If the bowl does not have a tip to pour from, pour it into a can or something that you can easily pour from.
Heat up the pan and add a small knob of butter in each hole. Then pour in the dough until it is just filled. Let it fry a bit until you can see a slight browning along the edges.
Then take a fork, preferably a narrow one, and turn the aebleskiver 180 degrees. The other half will fry much faster so keep turning them loosely to check how it goes. This way the "equator" of the ball will be fried equally well as the rest.
When they look quite brown all round quickly take them out, put in butter in each one and pour. This receipe is for around 2 times 9 aebleskiver, which fits my "9 ball" pan :-)
Drizzle some powdered sugar over the finished product and serve with raspberry jam (a thicker kind is preferable)
God appetit ... and merry Christmas :-)