Here’s another recipe on a classic Danish Christmas Cake: The Brown Cookie. Its’ signature-flavor comes from the combination of cloves and brown sugar. Some people like this cake soft, others crisp. However, I believe that this cake should be crispy, unlike a normal cookie.
In this recipe a pinch of orange peel has been added in order to make the cookies more fresh.
The butter, sugar, and syrup is heated during the making of the cookies in order to make the dough easier to work with and to provide a better flavor.
Brown Cookies
Ingredients
- 250 g butter
- 125 g light syrup
- 250 g brown sugar
- 1 1/2 tbsp cinnamon ground
- 2 tsp cloves ground
- 1 1/2 tsp orange shell grated
- 100 g almonds
- 1 3/4 tsp potash
- 1 tbsp water
- 500 g flour
Instructions
- Melt butter, brown sugar, and syrup in a saucepan – do not let it boil
- Combine cinnamon, cloves, orange peel, and half the flour in a bowl
- Add the melted butter mixture to the bowl with cinnamon
- Chop the almonds and add them to the dough as well
- When the dough has the same temperature as your little finger or is colder: Mix potash and water in a cup till all of the potash has dissolved. Pour it in the bowl with the dough and stir.
- Add the remaining flour to the dough and stir til it has an even texture. Roll a thick sausage of the dough ( 7-10 cm in diameter)
- Put the cookie sausage in the fridge for 1-2 hours
- Cut the cookie sausage into slices and place them on baking paper on a baking sheet
- Bake the cakes in the oven at 175 degrees C for about 10 minutes
- Store the cookies in a cookie jar