Scandinavia part 2: pancake cookies that look like Pringles

As well as their famous meatballs and infamous Allen keys, IKEA also do a pretty mean almond and chocolate 'Daim' cake, so following last week's potato dumplings, I had a look at the sweet section of the Scandinavian Cooking book. Like Daim cake, the baking chapter is heavily dominated by almonds but with a disappointing representation from the chocolate contingent. I plumped for Pancake cookies, which are coated in almonds and curled around a rolling pin whilst still warm. I assume the end result is supposed to look like a Pringle, but there are precious few photos in the book and nothing at all on the Internet for guidance (now wondering if the author just had an obsession with almonds and these aren't traditional Scandi biscuits at all...).

Ingredients:

200g butter

133g sugar (I used golden caster sugar)

2 eggs

112g plain flour

1/2 cup mixture of chopped flaked almonds and sugar for the topping

Note: aperol spritz not an ingredient for the cookies, just for the cook

Method:

- Melt the butter and let it cool. Cream until light and frothy then add the sugar and eggs

- Stir in the flour

- Drop teaspoon sized blobs onto a greased baking sheet leaving room for them to spread (can't recommend Lakeland's Magic Carpet enough for this kind if baking). You probably need to do this in batches but the baking time is really short and thus method leaves plenty of time to sample the raw cookie dough. Several times.

- Bake for 5 minutes at 180C, take the cookies out of the oven and sprinkle with the almond and sugar topping

- Return to the oven for another 5 minutes. Have another sample of cookie dough. 

- When cooked and starting to brown, remove the cookies from the oven and shape them by curling them round a rolling pin. Some of the topping will probably fall off. Leave to cool.

- Repeat until all the dough has been cooked or eaten, then lick the bowl

Delightful with a cup of tea or aperol spritz (note, not the same glass of spritz as in previous photo)