Christmas Cookies

It’s that time of year again, when I start baking like a lunatic.

Maybe it’s the approaching Christmas season. Maybe it’s the darkness and cold. Who knows? But somehow, inevitably, I end up baking cookies and cakes come November.

And here we are again.

My favourite Christmas cookies are not, surprisingly enough, gingerbread cookies, though they are good too.

They are, however, missing that one vital element that I love, love, love (I could go on). This special ingredient is…drum roll please…cardamom. I just love it. The scent alone makes me smile.

So these cardamom cookies are a season must for me, along with cardamom cake.

I found the recipe here.

And here’s a translation.

Cardamom cookies

200 g butter
2 ½ dl cane sugar
1 ½ dl cane syrup or light syrup
2 eggs
1 l of flour
4 tsp baking powder
1 ½ tbs cardamom
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp vanilla sugar

Chop the slightly melted butter into a big bowl. Add in the cane sugar.

Boil the syrup, and mix it in with the butter and sugar. When the mixture is even, add the eggs.

Mix together the flour, baking powder, cardamom, cinnamon and vanilla sugar. Then add the flour mixture, gradually, to the butter mixture. At some point, you’ll have to get dirty and use your hands.

Shape the dough into a flat disk and wrap it in plastic wrap. Let it chill in the refrigerator until the next day.

Then start baking some delicious cookies.

Oh, the final, and most important, step…Eat.

~J~