Christmas Calendar 2019 Day 17 - Pepper nut with licorice

I continue to bake for the Christmas coffee taking place later this week, this time is one of the Danish Christmas classic in form of "pepper nuts". "Pepper nuts" is a spiced small round cookie, where there is an extra addition of licorice, which is another typical Danish classic.

I have this recipe in a small leaflet, which I got together with the weekly magazine "Søndag".

You could also have a look at these recipes on "pepper nuts" licorice pepper nuts, giant pepper nut cookies, pepper nut muffins & pepper nuts a la Urtekram.


Pepper nut with licorice: - plenty

• 190 g butter - cut into smaller pieces
• 190 g sugar
• 1 tablespoon dark syrup
• 1½ teaspoon cardamon
• 1½ teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 1/4 teaspoon licorice
• 1 egg
• 340 g wheat flour
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 50 g white chocolate
• 1½ teaspoon licorice granulate

1. Start by adding all the ingredients into the mixing bowl of the stand alone mixer.
2. Knead the ingredients together. End by knead the dough by hand.
3. Cover the dough with cling film and let the dough rest in refrigerator the night over.
4. Heat up the oven to 200'C.
5. Divide the dough into smaller pieces, which is rolled by hand into a small ball.
6. Place the ball shape cookie on a baking tray covered with baking parchment.
7. Bake the pepper nuts at 200'C for approx. 10 minutes.
8. Let the pepper nuts cool down.
9. Cut the white chocolate into medium size, which is melted.
10. Dip the top of the pepper nuts into the white chocolate.
11. Afterwards sprinkle the white chocolate with licorice granulate.
12. Store in airtight containers.