Homemade Christmas Pepparkakor – Gingersnaps

The Christmas Pepparkakor or Gingersnaps is very popular Christmas cookie. It is very thin, crispy, delicately spiced and totally easy to make.

Homemade Crisp Gingersnaps – Christmas Pepparkakor

Homemade Gingersnaps – Christmas Pepparkakors – is quick and easy to make. The crispy triangles are like the shape of Christmas trees.

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Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Hungarian, Swedish

Keyword: christmas, cinnamon, cookies, feast, ginger

Servings: 8 people

Author: Myreille

Ingredients

• 100 grams butter (softened)
• 100 grams sugar
• 50 grams honey
• 200 grams plain flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder, unsweetened
• 1 tablespoon orange zest

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 180 ℃.
• In large bowl mix butter, sugar, honey, vanilla extrac, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, cocoa powder and zest from an orange.
• Add the flour and baking powder. Mix it well then knead the dough quickly. (If the dough is dry, add 1-2 tablespoons of water.)
• The dough is stretched to about 1 mm thin on baking paper.
• Cut the thin dough first into strips, then into squares, then into triangles.
• Pull the baking paper with the cuted dough on the baking tray.
• Bake 15-17 minutes. Let cool them on the baking paper.

Notes

After baking the cookies are soft, but after cooling they will be crispy.