Traditional Norwegian Gingerbread Cookies

A community recipe by Mariavil

Not tested or verified by Nigella.com

Introduction

I know the recipe is a little vague, but that's how my great-grandmother passed it on, and we have made it this way since...I guess it started out without electric mixers, but it's so much easier if you use one..! These get nice and crunchy, and are good as they are, but please decorate with a mix of confectionary (powdered) sugar and a few drops water (or egg white).

Ingredients

Serves: unknown

Metric Cups

200 millilitres water
100 millilitres maple syrup
235 grams caster sugar
2 grams cinnamon
2 grams ground ginger
2 grams ground cloves
2½ grams bicarbonate of soda
325 grams unsalted butter
flour

7 fluid ounces water
4 fluid ounces maple syrup
8⅓ ounces superfine sugar
ounce cinnamon
ounce ground ginger
ounce ground cloves
ounce baking soda
11½ ounces unsalted butter
flour

Method

Traditional Norwegian Gingerbread Cookies is a community recipe submitted by Mariavil and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

Water, syrup and sugar in a pan, bring to boil. Pour into the mixer, let cool a little. Put in spices and bicarb, and the butter.

Let your mixer run. Add flour until a firm dough, so firm that you can make a ball of it. Let the dough rest, and wrap it in clingfilm. For best possible result, this dough should rest overnight.

Dust some flour on to the baking surface, and use a rolling pin to make a very thin "sheet". Then use the cookie cutters of choice, transfer to tray with bake-O-glide or other baking paper.

Oven: 180 C (350 F), just a few minutes. If you make them as thin as they should be, just about 5-6 minutes is enough.

Water, syrup and sugar in a pan, bring to boil. Pour into the mixer, let cool a little. Put in spices and bicarb, and the butter.

Let your mixer run. Add flour until a firm dough, so firm that you can make a ball of it. Let the dough rest, and wrap it in clingfilm. For best possible result, this dough should rest overnight.

Dust some flour on to the baking surface, and use a rolling pin to make a very thin "sheet". Then use the cookie cutters of choice, transfer to tray with bake-O-glide or other baking paper.

Oven: 180 C (350 F), just a few minutes. If you make them as thin as they should be, just about 5-6 minutes is enough.