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My Great Grandmother’s Danish Christmas Cookies

02/12/2014 by Julie Karla 5 Comments

In December, these traditional Danish christmas cookies are a must! They have the most wonderful taste of christmas and the combination of cloves, ginger and cinnamon is really a heavenly christmas combo!

The Danish christmas cookies are super crispy and I remember, when I was a child that I would always dip them in my hot chocolate or even mulled wine (alcohol free!), so they would get all soft and almost melt in my mouth. Loved it!

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My Great Grandmother's Christmas Cookies

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Course Cake, Dessert
Cuisine Danish, Nordic
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 48 minutes
Servings 5 rolls of dough
Author Julie Karla

Ingredients

  • 22 oz. 625 gr. dark syrup
  • 4.4 oz. 125 gr. brown sugar
  • 8.8 oz. 250 gr. butter
  • Approximately 35 oz. 1 kg. of flour
  • 2.6 oz. 75 gr. almonds, chopped
  • 0.3 oz 10 gr. heaping tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. ground ginger
  • 1 tsp. ground clove
  • 0.3 oz 10 gr. potash
  • A pinch of carbamate

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 °F
  2. In a large frying pan, add the butter, syrup, brown sugar, and almonds and allow the mixture to melt.
  3. Add cloves, cinnamon and ginger.
  4. Add the potash and remove the pan from the heat. Let the mixture cool slightly.
  5. In a large bowl, add flour and carbamate and mix well together.
  6. Add the syrup mixture and mix together well until you have a dough like consistency.
  7. Transfer the dough to a clean surface and divide the dough into 5 sections.
  8. Roll each section into a long tube and put them in the refrigerator or freezer for a short while to set.
  9. Cut the tubes into ½ inch slices.
  10. Place slices on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or wax paper and bake for approx. 7-8 minutes.

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My Great Grandmother’s Danish Christmas cookies

This recipe is from my great grandmother’s cookbook from 1928! And it’s really the best recipe for these special christmas cookies. I remember each year receiving a huge jar of homemade christmas cookies from my grandmother made after her mother’s cookbook. So, baking these every christmas really makes me nostalgic but at the same time also gets me in the right christmas spirit.

A lot of families in Denmark make these for christmas. Some people cut out the cookies, whereas others roll the dough into tubes and slice them. I do both but mostly just slice them, as it is the easiest way and you’ll have freshly bake christmas cookies in no time.

This portion is also a big one, so you can easily roll out a couple of tubes and freeze some of them. Whenever you’re in the mood for freshly baked cookies, you just take a roll out of the freezer and after half an hour to an hour, cut them in thin slices and bake until crispy!

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Comments

  1. AvatarJo Anne Stone says

    12/12/2014 at 0740

    5 stars
    This is a wonderful recipe. I am in the USA so I did not use dark syrup, potash or carbamate as they are not available here. I used molasses, 1/2 the amount in baking soda and no baking powder.

    Reply
  2. AvatarAnnette Davies says

    10/12/2017 at 0740

    I’m in Australia and my daughter wants to embrace the Danish part of her heritage, so I’ll be making these for Christmas this year.

    Reply
    • Julie KarlaJulie Karla says

      22/12/2017 at 0740

      That sounds great Annette, Hope they worked out great!

      Reply
      • AvatarAnnette Davies says

        25/12/2017 at 0740

        They have turned out the way I hoped. My daughter is Coeliac so I adjusted measurements, for gluten free ingredients (flour). I’m more than happy, thank you 🙂

        Reply
        • Julie KarlaJulie Karla says

          27/12/2017 at 0740

          That’s so good to hear!

          Reply

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