Christmas Cookie Assortment: Pepparkakor – Sonlight Homeschooling Weblog

These cookies are probably the most conventional Christmas cookie in Sweden. They date again to the Center Ages when spices similar to cloves and pepper had been uncommon and costly. They had been used for particular events. It’s a spice cookie much like different international locations’ spice cookies similar to Pfeffernüsse or Speculaas.

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Pepparkakor

Elements:

• 4 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
• 1 tablespoon floor ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon floor cloves
• 1 ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/8 teaspoon freshly floor black pepper
• ¾  cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2/3 cup golden syrup (or sub gentle corn syrup should you can’t discover golden syrup)
• 2/3 cup heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon contemporary lemon juice

Directions:

1. Sift collectively the flour, baking soda, ginger and cloves right into a bowl. Whisk within the salt and pepper.
2. Within the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar till mushy and creamy, about 3 minutes.
3. Add the syrup and beat till mixed, then add within the heavy cream and lemon juice and beat till blended.  
4. Add the flour combination to the butter combination, one cup at a time, beating till blended.
5. Divide dough into 4 equal sections, shaping every quarter right into a ball, then flatten to kind a disc. Wrap every disc with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 12 hours or as much as 2 days. (You may as well freeze as much as 3 months. Let thaw to room temperature earlier than rolling out.)
6. Once you’re able to make the cookies, preheat the oven to 400 levels. Line a number of baking sheets with parchment paper and put aside.
7. Place one dough disk on a clear, floured work floor. Utilizing a floured rolling pin, roll out the dough to 1/8 to ¼-inch thickness. (Since it is a sticky dough, depart the opposite discs within the fridge till you’re prepared for the subsequent batch of cookies. In any other case the dough can keep on with the rolling pin, work floor, and cookie cutters.)
8. Utilizing cookie cutters, reduce out the cookies and place them one inch aside on the baking sheets.
9. Bake for about 6 minutes or till golden brown. You may want to modify the baking sheets between racks halfway via. You may additionally must refrigerate any ready baking sheets you can’t bake instantly.
10. Enable the cookies to chill barely on the cookie sheet earlier than shifting them to wire racks. Let cool utterly earlier than storing them in an hermetic container.

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