Recipe by: Marianne & Svend Rand-Hendriksen, who used to make eight times as much of this recipe to sell to the sailors that docked in their local pier on Nesodden, Norway (about a 20 min ferry ride from downtown Oslo).

I’ve had these waffles many times and they are ADDICTIVE! You may just as well multiply this recipe because you’ll be needing it! Even if you make too much of it, just freeze it. It’ll save you the trouble of mixing the batter again the next time you have a craving (which will be often).

Ingredients:

1 1/4 kg flour
1/2 kg sugar
1 tbsp vanilla sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1 L sour milk (kefir)
1 L milk
Cardamom
300 g melted butter
6 eggs

Directions:

1. Melt the butter, and mix everything together

2. Let it stand for 30 minutes

3. Dust of that waffle iron and put it to good use! Make sure you have a cooling rack for the finished waffles

Serve warm.

Serving Suggestions:

My Favourites:

With a generous spread of strawberry or raspberry jam
With a little butter and a nice sprinkle of sugar
With a nice dollop of ice cream

Other Norwegian Preferences (which take some getting used to for North Americans):

With butter and Norwegian goat cheese (quite an…unusual…yes unusual taste)
With sour cream or crème fraǐche and jam

Stick to the sweets if you’re a beginner. You’ll LOVE it!

Vel Bekomme!