I must be in a baking mood because I want to make just about every tasty thing I see. Over the weekend I made the most delicious meyer lemon bars and most recently I made Pepparkakar. It’s a traditional Swedish spiced Christmas cookie. I got a recipe from a good friend while I was visiting in Austin and forgot about it until recently. I searched it out and discovered I had all I needed (almost-I’ll explain) and got started.

The recipe is as follows:

-1 cup butter                                 -I TBSP water

-1 1/2 cups sugar                          -3 1/4 cups flour

-1 egg                                           -2 tsp baking soda

-1 1/2 TBSP grated orange peel   -2 tsp cinnamon

-2 TBSP molasses                        -1 tsp ginger

-1/2 tsp ground cloves

-I only made a half recipe and to deal with splitting 1 egg I weighed it, beat it, and weighed out half (it worked really well).

-The recipe calls for dark corn syrup but I only had molasses on hand so I used that instead.

-First I creamed the butter and sugar, then I added the egg, orange peel, water, and molasses.

-Next I sifted the flour with the baking soda and all 3 spices. I slowly added the flour mixture to the wet ingredients until combined.

-Then I chilled the dough in the fridge for a few hours.

-I rolled out the dough very thinly and used my smallest biscuit cutter to make rounds (you can make any shape you like). I then used my spatula to lift them from the counter to the cookie sheet. I set the oven at 350 F and when they were slightly browned I took them out. I didn’t set a timer but I would guess it took around 7 minutes.

-The Pepparkakar ready to eat! I bet they would go so well with a cup of tea!