Ginger coookies (Pepparkakor)

Category
Biscuits, cookies, pastries

Time
Special

Difficulty
Difficult

Cost
Cheap

From
Sweden

Ingredients

250g all-purpose flour
100g cane-sugar
50g sugar
1 tbsp baker's ammonia
1 tbsp fresh minced ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
4 cloves
75g butter
1 egg
2 tbsp honey
more flour

Mix the flour with baker's ammonia, sugar, cane-sugar and cinnamon.
Add the beaten egg, melted butter, minced ginger and cloves.
Heat the honey with a spoonful of water and add to the dough, knead and put in the refrigerator for an hour.
Roll the dough out 3mm thick. Use a cookie cutter to cut round shape discs.
Put the cookies on a buttered baking pan and bake in preheated 180° C (356 F) oven 8-10 minutes.
Repeat with the remaining dough.