Pepparkakor are everywhere throughout winter, at every celebration, end of swimming lessons, scouts’ Christmas party, or stockpiled in your cupboards. Usually accompanied by a very welcome mug of glögg (mulled wine), these thin festively spicy biscuits are very moorish. Try our recipe and let me know how you get on in the comments below.
These lovely little innocuous Swedish biscuits have a very unique taste with a small amount of fire, and something you can’t quite put your finger on. It’ll be the presence of the cardamom, a spice that is put in a lot of baking in Scandinavia and gives things a very individual taste. So, unless you want to head to your nearest Ikea (if you live in the UK), pop on your pinafore and get baking these delicious pepparkakor – I challenge you not to scoff the lot!!
Pepparkakor Ingredients:
1 tablespoon cardamom
150g butter
250g sugar
50g light syrup (for UK use normal syrup)
20g dark syrup (for UK use treacle)
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1/2 tablespoon baking soda
100ml water
450g plain flour
Pepparkakor Method:
- Mix butter, sugar, and syrups in a pan, and heat gently until the butter melts.
- Turn the mixture off and add in all the spices (cardamon, ginger, and cinnamon).
- Add in the baking powder.
- Add water
- Add flour.
- Put it all into a bowl once it is mixed well. Leave it to rest at least overnight but up to a week if possible (we did a few days and all was well). Cover it when it has cooled.
- When you are ready, roll it quite thin 1-2mm and cut the shapes in with cutters that you fancy (we did Elk and hearts).
- Cook at 200 degrees Celcius for 8-10 mins (you need to watch them!!)
Let them cool on a wire rack and then see how long the batch lasts!! Don’t forget to let me know in the comments below how it went and if they were gobbled down 🙂
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These look lovely I might give this a whirl this afternoon with the little.
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They are very tasty
I’m going to add these to my biscuit list as i’m trying out lots of biscuit recipes this year
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Your home will be popular this Christmas with so many festive goodies!! I hope you enjoy them
Mmm these look really tasty and festive. Love all the different Christmassy shapes!
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They are so yummy
These look brilliant! We’ll definitely try these out!
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Let me know what you think
Ooh I tried a Swedish winter biscuit last weekend and it was delicious!! You can’t beat proper biscuits like this!
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I’m so pleased!! Try the recipe and have your own
They sound really easy to make and I love the sound of all the spices used. If I can find syrup here in Portugal I’ll give it a go!
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No syrup?!!!!! My goodness how do you survive 😉 They are yummy xxx
Oh how tasty sounding, these are being pinned to give them a go!
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I hope you enjoy them 🙂
These look really yummy! We have a similar biscuit in Germany called ‘Pfefferkuchen’. I haven’t made any in ages though.
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They are delicious! I love the German ones too 🙂
I was not familiar with Peppakakor biscuits but thanks for the introduction as well as the recipe, I hope to recreate it over the festive period
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Mm these look delicious and with lots of Christmas spice will have to try your recipe x
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Let me know how you get on and I hope you enjoy them 🙂
This look & sound lovely! I love the cookie cutter Christmas shapes you have used 🙂 x
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Thankyou!
I LOVE these with a passion and we have almost finished the box we brought back from Lapland. I am so making my own
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They are so addictive aren’t they!
Oh these look and sound great, I had never heard of them before. I have promised my children we will bake on Saturday so I might have to give these a try x
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I hope you enjoy them 🙂
I love homemade biscuita. These looks so yummy and very easy to make as well. Lovely thing to do with the kids.
Wow! These look delicious! I would love to try them and make them in my own shapes and sizes. Mmmmm.
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I hope you enjoy them!
I love these biscuits! I would have never thought of the cardamon though. Will have to try and make with my lo.
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Hope you enjoy them. Cardamon is in everything here!
Oo these sound delicious – it’s interesting seeing cardamom in them! My daughter’s would love to make these 🙂
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Cardamom is in everything over here!
I love baking at Christmas time, these are something that we could do together as a family and perhaps wrap up nicely to give out as little festive gifts.
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As definitely and it is something we have done from the children in the past
I’ve never heard of these biscuits before but they look great. I’ve been loving baking recently so it’s something I may need to try out. Thanks for sharing!
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Enjoy them if you do them
These look lovely, the perfect biscuit to have made to offer guests over Christmas!
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That’s if we haven’t eaten them first the rate we are going!!
These Swedish winter biscuits or Pepparkakor look absolutely scrumptious
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They are very moorish!
So easy and simple to make, these would be great for the kids lunchboxes too
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They make great snacks
Perfect for this time of year, they sound delish
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They are!
In Germany we have ‘Pfefferkuchen’ too. I absolutely love them. Definitely one of my fave Christmas treats.
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They are so Moorish aren’t they!