Recipe: Swedish ginger bread

Normally I don’t really like crunchy cookies, but some I really like.

Among the ones I like, there is these – Swedish ginger bread!
Yeah well … Maybe it sounds weird, that I love Swedish ginger bread, and not Danish or others …
Sorry!

I really think there is a huge difference. Swedish ginger bread are just much more spicy .. Christmassy-spicy! ♥

I am part Swedish & part danish, and therefore there will always be some Danish/Swedish thing, that I like more than the other.

These ginger breads are really delicious. Just remember to roll out the dough really thin – Much thinger than you would think, as they raise  in the oven , and become to thick.

Recipe

Yield: 90 – 100 stk

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 dl dark syrup
• ½ dl water
• 125 grams of butter
• 100 grams of sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 2 tbsp cinnamon
• 2 tbsp ground cloves
• 2 tbsp ground cardamom
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp all spice

How to make it:

• Take out the butter from the fridge, so it becomes soft
• Pre heat the oven to 200 degrees
• Mix the soft butter with sugar & syrup (handmixer or kitchen machine)
• Add flour, baking soda, spices, salt & water
• Mix & knead it all well
• When it is kneaded & to a form dough, pack it in plastik wrap and store in the fridge for some hours
• Take the dough out of the fridge
• Sprinkle some flour on the table and on top of the dough (do this several times when you roll the dough) roll out the dough a bit with a roling pin
• Put the dough on a baking paper and roll it to it has become really thin
• If some dough are sticking out from the bakingpaper, then cut it of (store that for later)
• Cut out christmas figures of the dough with different cookie cutters
• When it is done – Remove remaining dough (Store remaing dough for later)
• Move the bakingpaper with the ginger bread over to the baking sheet
• Put in the oven for 8 minutes
• When they are done – Put the ginger bread on a ovengrid ot baking paper to cool
• Do the same procedure with all of the remaing dough you have stored, until nothing is left