Latvian gingerbread cookies
In Latvia gingerbread cookies are very typical for Christmas. Around that time, every single house is filled with gingerbread cookie smell. In Latvia, you usually buy the gingerbread cookie dough and bake them at home, but living abroad this isn’t possible. So, for the third year in a row, I’m preparing my gingerbread cookie dough myself. I still don’t get the perfect consistency, but the taste and smell are better than the store-bought ones. Prepare your home for Christmas and bake some cookies!
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Yield: ca. 4kg of dough (which means – a lot of cookies!)
Ingredients:
- 400g honey
- 400g brown (or white) sugar
- 400g butter
- 1,5kg-2kg flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 20-30g of gingerbread spices: you can mix them yourself using cinnamon, cardamon, nutmeg, ginger, black pepper… or just buy a prepared gingerbread spices packet, for instance from Santa Maria (from Sweden)