Every Norwegian family seems to have their own preferences when it comes to color and texture, and my mother made her krumkake golden brown and paper thin.

Krumkake are thin waffle cookies rolled into a cone. The recipe - like many other Norwegian sweet treats -- consists mainly of sugar, flour, eggs, butter and shortening.

One of Carol Marsh’s go-to traditional desserts and holiday must-haves is krumkake. It’s a crispy Norwegian cookie that can be filled with whipped cream, dipped in chocolate, and more. Marsh ...

Lisa Hovis learned to make these traditional Norwegian cookies by baking alongside her grandmother. The recipe and fond memories remain.

This krumkake iron was the first consumer product manufactured by Nordic Ware (then the Plastics for Industry Company) in 1948. Krumkake is a very thin Norwegian wafer cookie, served rolled into a ...

And that was the beginning of the annual marathon by Ilene Yanish, otherwise known as "the krumkake queen" of Fisher, Minn. She has a goal of making 3,000 of the delicate cone shaped Norwegian ...

Most cookies go into the oven to bake, but krumkake are not most cookies. Instead of the oven, bakers typically use a krumkake iron on an open flame to make these traditional Norwegian butter cookies.

Lisa Hovis learned to make these traditional Norwegian cookies by baking alongside her grandmother. The recipe and fond memories remain.