One recipe for Pepperkaker

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When I was a girl, my mother made the dough for the Pepperkaker (Gingerbread Cookies) by herself. I will try to add her recipe on another occasion.

These days many Norwegians buy readymade dough at the supermarket, bake at home and fill the air with a wonderful smell. The cookies are just delicious.
Possibly most Norwegians prefer an even easier solution: They buy the readymade baked cookies - also delicious.

In 1985 I received the following recipe for PEPPERKAKER from a Norwegian kindergarten. In my experience, a recipe from a kindergarten usually means you have some chance of success, if you have never tried the recipe before.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

1 egg

150 g sugar

2 tablespoons of syrup

125 g butter

2 tablespoons of cream

1 teaspoon ground cardemon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground cloves

1 teaspoon vanila sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon of black pepper

250 g flour

3 teaspoons of baking powder



WHAT TO DO

Mix the egg with half the amount of sugar.

Heat the syrup, the cream, the rest of the sugar, the butter and the spices, and cool this mixture.

Mix this with the egg-sugar mixture and add flour and baking powder.

Work this into a hard dough.

Leave the dough in the fridge or in a cool place till the next day.

You roll the dough really thin (2 mm) and cut out the traditional shapes of trees, man, woman, star etc or just cut circles with a glass.

The cookies are baked for about five minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.