Pfefferkuchen Recipes

PFEFFERKUCHEN

Steps:

• Bring molasses, honey, and sugar to a simmer in a large saucepan over medium heat, then remove from heat and allow to cool for 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Stir in anise, cardamom, ginger, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, lemon zest, and butter. Dissolve baking soda in water, then stir into the molasses mixture. Sift together 6 cups of flour with the baking powder and cocoa powder into a large bowl. Stir in molasses mixture and eggs until smooth. Stir in remaining 3 cups flour until a stiff dough has formed.
• Divide dough into 4 pieces to make it more manageable. Roll the dough to 1/4-inch thick on a well floured surface and cut into shapes with a cookie cutter.
• Bake cookies on ungreased baking sheets 8 to 10 minutes until lightly browned around the edges. Cool completely on a wire rack.

PFEFFERNUSSE COOKIES

Steps:

• Stir together the molasses, honey, shortening, and margarine in a saucepan over medium heat; cook and stir until creamy. Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature. Stir in the eggs.
• Combine the flour, white sugar, brown sugar, cardamom, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, anise, cinnamon, baking soda, pepper, and salt in a large bowl. Add the molasses mixture and stir until thoroughly combines. Refrigerate at least 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Roll the dough into acorn-sized balls. Arrange on baking sheets, spacing at least 1 inch apart.
• Bake in preheated oven 10 to 15 minutes. Move to a rack to cool. Dust cooled cookies with confectioners' sugar.

PFEFFERKUCHEN

Steps:

• Melt together;honey, sugar, cold coffe and butter in small bowl, by warming it slowly, best in microwave. Let it cool off. Mix the flour and baking powder together in bowl, make a well in the middle and put in the egg and the spices and stir all together slowly adding the cold honey mixture too. The dough has to be thick but has to drop of a spoon slowly, if to thick add a little bit more cold coffee. Grease a cookie sheet very well and with a wet spatula spread the dough out on it, about 1 cm thick. Heat oven to 350℉ (180℃) F and put the cookiesheet on the highest rack in the oven. Bake about 20 minutes. Make the glaze and immedietly glaze the dough when it it comes out of the oven, cool a little and cut into rectangles. Store in a tightly closed tin container so they stay soft.