Mormor Bengtsson’s Pepparkakor
A Plan
Hattie and Amelia have a plan…
Weather
…the sideways rain, hail, wind and cold are not deterrents.
Hive of activity
Hattie and Amelia make a good team…
Rolling
Hattie rolled out the dough…
cookie cutting
Amelia cut out the gingerbread persons…
M-m-m
…and they both did the quality-control testing!
Grandma’s Pepparkakor recipe:
1 cup soft unsalted butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 1 egg, 1 Tablespoon Orange zest, 1 Tablespoons dark corn syrup, 1 Tablespoon water.
Mix these together starting with butter and sugar, and adding the rest in order given.
3 1/2 cups white flour, 2 teaspoons baking soda, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 teaspoon powdered ginger, 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves.
In another bowl, mix these together.
Mix the dry into the wet.
Roll with a rolling pin to about 1/8 inch thickness and cut with cooky-cutters.
Bake in a slow oven (ca. 325 degrees F) for about 8 – 10 minutes.
My Grandmother made these every year!
Quimper Hittys 
I can almost smell them baking! The girls did a wonderful job and I am sure the other HIttys will enjoy their efforts!
They do smell delicious! All the girls like the results of Hattie/Amelia collaborations!
Quite a lot of cookie baking happening in the Cupboard this Season, and Gingerbread Folk are definitely a favorite here, too! Yum!
We love Christmas cookies, and it is always amusing when the Hittys want to help (it takes longer but is more fun too!)
Yum, I can hardly wait – one of my favourite Christmas cookies. I hope the QHs are in a sharing frame of mind.
Luckily they are in the mood for sharing, and luckily the human made some rather larger ones for big people’s delectation!
Yay!
Those girls can come to my place ANYTIME!!! Superb teamwork!
Next time we visit we’ll bring a trunk full of cookies!
Hattie and Amelia do make a wonderful team. They both have smiles that portray their happiness in their projects. That tiny rolling pin, cookie sheet, and those amazing baked cookies in the cookie jar are Hitty perfection.
They are Happy! They might have turned into firewood, or piece of furniture, and instead they get to be dolls! Making cookies is a bonus!!! It is fun to find little things for Hitty – my “Hitty-eye” is ever on high alert…and I have a collaborator in our favourite photographer, who created the wee cooky sheet out of a leftover scrap of copper weather-stripping.