Hello spice! It’s the holiday season and spice, spice, everywhere there’s spice! The German Pfeffernüsse gingerbread cookies are about as spicy as they get. I’m not referring to heat spice but warm, holiday, sweet spice. These cookies are packed with 7 spices along with black pepper, molasses, and brown sugar for an added punch ofContinue reading “German Pfeffernüsse Gingerbread Cookies: Wonderful Spiced Holiday Treats”
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Swedish Gingerbread Cookies: Thin, Snappy, & Holiday Spiced
Swedish gingerbread cookies are commonly eaten during the fall and winter holiday season. They are flavorful, spiced gingerbread crispy cookies often used as the cookie base for gingerbread houses due to their sturdiness and crispiness. I went all out on spice in my version of this recipe. The spices aren’t many, but they are prettyContinue reading “Swedish Gingerbread Cookies: Thin, Snappy, & Holiday Spiced”
Gingerbread Spice Blend: Great for Your Favorite Holiday Foods & Drinks
Gingerbread, gingerbread people, or simply gingerbread cookies are all treats made with warm spices mixed with butter, sugar, and flour. I can smell the holidays just thinking about them. Pumpkin pie spice gets all the glory in the United States during the holiday months while apple pie spice follows a long distant second, but whatContinue reading “Gingerbread Spice Blend: Great for Your Favorite Holiday Foods & Drinks”
How to Make TRUE Crispy Gingersnap Cookies
Depending on where you live, spice cookies are called ginger nuts, Arnott’s biscuits, brunkage, or speculaas. In many places they are known as pepper cookies in the appropriate Swedish, Finnish, Latvian, Estonian, or Norwegian languages. In the United States and Canada, however, we call them gingersnaps. My gingersnap cookies would make GREAT holiday gifts orContinue reading “How to Make TRUE Crispy Gingersnap Cookies”