Norwegiandropcookies Recipes

NORWEGIAN DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream shortening, brown sugar and egg until fluffy.
• Sift together flour, soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt.
• Mix with batter.
• Add raisins and walnuts.
• Drop by teaspoon on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 350° for 12 minutes.

NORWEGIAN BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Beat together butter, sugar, and extracts in a large bowl with an electric mixer at moderately high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and beat well. Add flour mixture and mix at low speed until just combined.
• Quarter dough and put 1 piece into cookie press. Holding press slightly above ungreased baking sheets, squeeze out dough to form cookies (follow manufacturer's instructions), spacing them about 3 inches apart. Form more cookies with remaining dough in same manner.
• Bake cookies in batches in middle of oven until edges are golden, 10 to 15 minutes, then transfer with a metal spatula to racks to cool.

NORWEGIAN BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Hard boil the eggs and separate the yolks. Cream the butter and hard boiled egg yolks. Beat in the sugar and add the flour vanilla extract. Mix thoroughly. Put through a cookie press or arrange by teaspoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until lightly browned.

NORWEGIAN COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add egg and mix well.
• Stir in flour and almond extract.
• Chill dough 1-2 hours.
• Make balls the size of small walnuts.
• Flatten balls on cookie sheet with the bottom of a glass dipped in flour.
• Press a ½ of a cherry onto each cookie.
• Bake at 350 for 15 minutes until edges are light brown.
• Do not over bake.
• You can sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.

NORWEGIAN GORO COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. This is what a Goro Iron looks like. All the other irons are ones we use for different recipes. European baking is deep in tradition and an art. Recipes going back centuries. Some varied in spices, but basically are the same. Some recipes require special cast irons with elaborate beautiful embossing and some are just shaped to fit the recipe; Goro, Munk, Plette, Krumkake, Ableskiver, Heart shaped waffle irons. While some are magnificenly hand carved Springerle molds and rolling pins lovingly passed down from generation to generation. Many Springerle pins and molds are now in private collections, museums, and are valuable, as well as some of the beautiful irons.
• 2. My irons are make by Jotul and Andersen. My Springerle pins are old and cherish. I lovely take very good care of them them.
• 3. Instructions: First cut a piece of thin piece of clean aged wood you are going to save for the next time, or cardboard, paper or stiff plastic to match the inside of your Goro iron.
• 4. Cream the eggs and sugar well. Add the cream, spices, and brandy. Stir in the flour and butter, alternately. Put in the icebox overnight.
• 5. Take the dough out and let warm just a tad in a cool kitchen..maybe 10 minutes. Roll out on a lightly floured surface thinly as possible. Using the piece of wood. cardboard or plastic cut dough into the shape. Leave the pattern together as you will cut them when you are done baking them.
• 6. Cook on top of the stove with your Goro iron until golden brown on both sides. Remove the Goros and trim the edges. Cut the Goros down the lines. Place on brown paper bags cut open to cool.
• 7. You can use 2 cups of potato flour for 2 cups of flour. Also you can use 1/2 butter and 1/2 shortening. (Never do..but you can if your like)
• 8. Store in tin with a tight cover in a cool place.

NORWEGIAN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add egg and extracts; beat until well. Add flour and nuts; beat just until moistened. Cover and chill 1 hour or until firm enough to handle., Preheat oven to 350°. Shape into 1-in. balls; place 2 in. apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. Flatten to 1/4-in. thickness with a glass dipped in colored sugar. Sprinkle with additional sugar if desired. Bake until cookies are set, 10-12 minutes. Cool on pans 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.

NORWEGIAN BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt together. Add the butter and rub in with your fingers until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Mix in all the icing sugar and the vanilla sugar, then add the whole egg and mix until just combined, but be careful not to overmix.
• Transfer the dough to a food bag and put in the fridge to chill for about 1 hr.
• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Roll the chilled dough into about 40 even balls (around 15g each). Arrange the dough balls over two baking sheets lined with baking parchment, leaving space between each for spreading. Using the back of a fork, press the balls down gently in the middle, so they spread to a diameter of about 3cm (they will spread more as they bake). If you prefer flat cookies, use the bottom of a glass.
• Brush the cookies with the beaten egg white and sprinkle over the pearl sugar or almonds. Bake for 10 mins, or until just cooked through (the cookies should not be fully browned, just lightly golden at the edges). Remove from the oven and transfer to wire racks to cool completely.