Nonny's Pepparkakors

Name: Nonny's Pepparkakors
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 200 cookies
Ingredients: 3/4 cup butter; 1 cup sugar; 1 egg; 4 tablespoons light molasses; 2 1/2 cups flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 teaspoon ground cloves; 1 teaspoon ginger

Submitted by Lorianne1

"This is my Swedish great-grandmother's recipe for Pepparkakors. She used to make hundreds of these every year for Christmas."

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Ready In:: 45mins
Ingredients:: 9
Yields:: 200 cookies

ingredients

³⁄₄ cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
4 tablespoons light molasses
2 ¹⁄₂ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ginger

directions

Cream butter, sugar, egg, and molasses together.
Mix together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, clove, ginger.
Add flour mixture to butter/sugar mixture and mix well.
Refrigerate dough for several hours.
Divide into fourths and roll into logs. wrap each log in waxed paper and aluminum foil.
Freeze dough overnight.
Remove 1/2 log from freezer at a time. Slice very thin(1/8 inch) and place on greased cookie sheet.
Bake 10-15 minutes in preheated 300F oven.
Cool for a few minutes and remove to wire rack.

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Reviews

Delicious! They're getting eaten almost as soon as they cool. I was thinking of reducing the amount of cloves a little bit, but all my testers are saying they like them just the way they are.

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