Swedish Gingerbread Cookies

Ingredients:

300 gram Butter

5 dl sugar

1 dl golden syrup

2 dl cold water

1 tbs Gingerpowder

1 tbs cinnamon powder

1 tbs clove powder

2 tsp cardamom powder

1 tbs bicarbonate

1,5 liters wheat flower

How to:

1. Stir butter, sugar and syrup smooth

2. Add water, spices and bicarbonate, stir it

3. Work in about 1,2 liters flour

4. Put the dough on the table and work it a bit, see if you need a bit more flour. Watch that you don't add to much flour, it shouldn’t be too dry.

5. Let it rest in a cool space, therefore its good to make it a day before you bake it.

6. Cut the dough into four pieces so its easier to work with.

7. Roll out the dough pretty thin, use the gingerbread mold and put on paper on a oven plate, put it in the oven for 5-6 minutes at 200-225 degrees celsius.

The cookies should have a nice brown color and, when cold, hard and crunchy, not soft as the American cookies seems to be. :)

Enjoy!

In this recipe we use the metric system.