Kitty's Corner

I love baking, and that's another reason to enjoy Christmas, which traditionally is the season where I bake the most. I want to introduce some cookies, that many Danes eat a lot of during December. But since I'm gonna stuff down a lot of cookies during December, I made this in a fat-reduced version.

Zaphira's Recipe Service (ZRS) proudly presents:

Pebernødder ~ or ~ little Christmas biscuits
(Makes 200, I think. I've never counted!)

Ingredients:

35 grams butter (1.25 Oz.)
250 grams wheat flour (8.8 Oz.)
2 tablespoons oil (olive or rape seed is good)
1 egg
50 grams brown sugar (1.8 Oz.)
2 tablespoons water
Half a teaspoon ammonium carbonate
One and a half teaspoon cinnamon
Half a teaspoon cardamom
Half a teaspoon powdered clove
Quarter a teaspoon powdered white pepper

What to do:

Crumble the butter into the flour. It gets to look a bit like grated cheese. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix it all.



At this point you'll have to stick your fingers in it and knead it into a dough.
It doesn't take long, and when you're done, it's supposed to look like this:


Make rolls of the dough, wrap them up into film and put them into the fridge for half an hour.






Cut the dough into bits.

Roll the bits into little round 'nuts' and put them onto a baking paper covered baking plate. They won't run or raise much, so you can put them pretty close together.



Now they're ready to put in the pre-heated oven, and bake for 8-10 minutes on 200 degrees Celsius (392 F).

Et voila - they're ready:



Bon apétite!