Jun 22nd 2017

Before Christmas Eve, all Christians usually prepare various things. Beside family dinner, people all over the world usually enjoy cookies in this occasion. Do you know? Each country has a different traditional cookies to be served at Christmas.

Cookies are served almost in every home in different countries of the world. Peanut butter, fruit to cheese are usually popular as the extra ingredients for cookies. Each cookies has its own story and its own characteristics. One of the countries that has a traditional Christmas cookies is Denmark. The Danish people makes a variety of Danish butter cookies to be enjoyed with their family. Some of Denmark's famous Danish butter cookies are famous brunkager, klejner (crullers), vanillekranse, honningkager, and pebernødder.

This time, Brunkager, as one of Danish butter cookies, is on the spotlight. Brunkager is a Danish butter cookies that include a variation of thin ginger cake made from cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, allspice, and orange peel.

The history of the Brunkager remains a mystery, but it is known that the brunkager has been known since the 1400s brought by Europeans and often served as a Christmas snack. The name comes from Peberkager which means pepper. Although it turns out that it does not mean the pepper, but actually a cookie that has a strong taste of spices.

Every family in Denmark has their own unique recipe to make Brunkager as Danish butter cookies. But this time we will give a Brunkager recipe that is often used by the people of Denmark.

Material :
• 250 g of butter
• 125 g of syrup, "routine lys" from dansukker
• 250 g brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons of potassium carbonate, K2CO3 (Potaske)
• 1 tablespoon cold water
• 3 teaspoons of cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground clove
• 2 teaspoons of ginger powder
• 1 teaspoon of allspice
• 60 g candied orange peel
• 25 g of raw pistachio
• 150 g of almonds
• 500 g wheat flour

How to Make:
1. Melt the butter, syrup, and brown sugar into a pan over medium heat up to approximately 70 degrees Celsius or 160 ℉.
2. Mix the spices such as cinnamon, cloves, ginger, allspice and flour. Then add the peel of oranges, almonds, and pistachios.
3. Dissolve potassium carbonate (potasken) in the water afterwards, mix it to the previous dough.
4. Mix all the ingredients together in a mixer until the mixture is well blended.
5. Put the dough into a baking sheet that has been lined with parchment paper. After the pan is fully loaded, cover the dough with a piece of parchment paper. Chill at room temperature until the dough of the brunkager hardened.
6. After it hardened, cut the dough with a sharp knife or if you want to make another shape, you can mold the dough as desired. Afterwards, bake on a baking sheet that has been coated with parchment paper on an oven that has been heated to a temperature of 355 ℉ (180 ℃) for 9-13 minutes.
7. Once cooked, place the Brunkager in an airtight container.

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