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Sirups Kager (Danish Brown Spice Cookies)

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Submitted by melody2sing

Sirups kager are traditional Danish brown spice cookies made with dark corn syrup, cinnamon, and cloves. Crisp, warmly spiced, and ideal for holiday cookie tins and Christmas baking.

YIELD

2 servings

PREP

35 min

COOK

10 min

READY

45 min

These are the cookies that fill Danish kitchens with the smell of Christmas.

Sirups kager (syrup cookies) get their deep brown color and chewy-crisp texture from dark corn syrup creamed with butter and sugar, then spiced with cinnamon and ground cloves.

The dough chills until firm, rolls out thin, and bakes into snappy little cookies with edges that shatter on the first bite.

Cut them into reindeer shapes for the holiday table, or skip the fuss and slice rounds from a simple log.

Either way, they disappear fast.

Kitchen Tips

  • Chill the dough until truly firm. Warm dough sticks to everything and makes rolling a nightmare
  • Roll thin, about ⅛ inch. These cookies are meant to be crisp, not cakey
  • Watch them closely in the oven. The dark syrup means they go from golden to burnt in a blink
  • Store in a tight tin once cooled. They stay crisp for weeks, which makes them ideal for gifting

Ingredients

1 237
CUP ML BUTTER
or margarine, softened
1 237
CUP ML SUGAR
1 237
2 10
TEASPOONS ML CINNAMON
1 5
TEASPOON ML CLOVES
ground
½ 2.5
TEASPOON ML BAKING SODA
1 5
TEASPOON ML WATER
3 3/4-4

Directions

  1. Cream butter or margarine with sugar and corn syrup. Stir in cinnamon, cloves and baking soda mixture.

Add flour a little at a time, mixing well after each addition until stiff dough forms.

Cover dough and refrigerate until firm.

  1. Heat oven to 400℉ (200℃). Roll dough to ⅛ inch thickness on floured surface.

Cut with cookie cutters into reindeer or desired shapes.

Or roll dough into logs about 1-inch in diameter and slice crosswise into 1-inch-thick rounds.

  1. Bake on ungreased cookie sheets until lightly browned, about 10 minutes
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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 309g (10.9 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 1265 34% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 47g 73%
Saturated Fat 29g 147%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 122mg 41%
Sodium 526mg 22%
Total Carbohydrate 68g 68%
Dietary Fiber 4g 16%
Sugars g
Protein 25g
Vitamin A 28% Vitamin C 1%
Calcium 6% Iron 34%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
Trans-fat Free, Good source of fiber
 

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