Danish cookies (smaakager)
Soon it is Christmas and what better then, than to make some Danish cookies!
The cookies are real easy. It is the good old 2:1:1 recipe I have used so many times before. But anywho, here it is again for those who want to try:
100 g butter
100 g sugar
200 g flour (soft wheat flour is best; 薄力粉)
2 tsp. vanilla sugar
1 egg yolk
Chopped almonds or pearl sugar (nib sugar) for decoration and some milk for finishing
Mix butter, egg yolk (can be left out) and sugar in a bowl till it becomes a uniform yellow dough. You may want to heat the butter up in the microwave for 10-20 seconds if it is too hard.
Mix flower and vanilla sugar and sift it into the above dough. Mix it all, and knead it gently with your hands. The dough should not be sticky if it is, add more flour.
Roll the dough on a clean table surface so it becomes a long “sausage” approximately 4 cm in diamter. Cut 3-4 mm thick circular slices off and place them on baking paper ready to be put in the oven. Alternatively roll the dough out with a rolling pin till it is about 3-4 mm thick. Use small cake forms to cut out shapes (see pictures above) and place on the baking paper.
Apply a little milk to the cookies with a brush or a finger and decorate with chopped almonds if desired. Pearl sugar can also be used.
Bake the cookies in a pre-heated oven at about 170-180 degrees celsius for about 10 minutes, or till they have a nice sun brown color!
Cool off before eating!