Nordicware is designed and made in the USA. One look at the elaborate designs, and this is clear. These are the bakeware equivalents of the Cadillac Eldorado, or the buffet breakfast at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort. Americans love to do things bigger, better, best, and this bakeware is no exception. While we reach for our dog-eared copies of the Australian Women's Weekly Birthday Cakes cookbook with a sense of nostalgia for cakes of our youth and trepidation at the number of different tins we might need to create the nominated cake, the Americans clearly don't see the point in making generic shapes and following complicated patterns to bake a novelty cake. No siree, Bob. Why spend hours cutting squares and rounds and bars and even savarins into pieces when you can buy one tin, put the mixture in, and out comes the perfect shape, already cut and shaped for you?
But Nordicware have not stopped at the cake tin. They have produced a pikelet pan. Not just any old pikelet pan: these ones have patterns. Forget the struggle to even make the blasted things round; now, we're imprinting bugs on them. Or how about some "Silver Dollar" waffles, and Ebelskiver. What's that you say? You don't cook Ebelskiver? Surely that's only because you don't have the pan...one look at the label will have you rushing for ingredients. They look scrumptious!
If you haven't already worn yourself out with the sheer excitement of the possibilities, let me mention the Petit Four pan (perfect for teeny tiny cakes or jellies), the English shortbread tin, and the Cookie Plaque: an ingenious double-sided cookie press which conveniently comprises eight designs in one square. No more searching for the escaped cookie cutters when Christmas or Hallowe'en rolls around this year. I'm trying this little device for my festive gingerbread.
Our Nordicware selection has arrived direct from America. You will find one of the widest selections of Nordicware anywhere in Australia, but be warned: these beauties are selling like hotcakes (isn't that just a big pikelet?), and as our current stock includes some festive designs, you might like to start thinking about a Holiday Wreath tin now, rather than waiting until Christmas and being disappointed. A savarin tin is just so not the same thing...
