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Brown Cookies

Cooking time: 200 minutes
Servings: 100

Classic, crispy brown cookies with a warm Christmas spice flavor, perfect for cookie baking in December. The dough is easy to work with, and the result is the finest, crunchy Christmas cookies that spread the scent of coziness throughout the kitchen.

Brown Cookies

Ingredients

  • 80 g light syrup
  • 120 g brown sugar
  • 140 g butter
  • 250 g all-purpose flour
  • 50 g almonds
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp ground cloves
  • ½ tsp allspice
  • A pinch of salt
  • 1 tsp potassium carbonate (potash)
  • ½ tbsp cold water

Instructions

  1. Melt the brown sugar, butter, and syrup in a saucepan over low heat.
  2. Blanch the almonds and chop them finely.
  3. Mix the flour, almonds, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice, and salt, and stir it together with the sugar mixture.
  4. Dissolve the potash in water and knead it into the dough.
  5. Chill the dough for 30 minutes.
  6. Roll the dough into logs with a diameter of about 5 cm.
  7. Wrap the logs in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
  8. The next day, slice the logs into thin slices and distribute them on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
  9. Bake the brown cookies at 200°C (conventional oven) for 5 minutes.
  10. Once the cookies have cooled, store them in an airtight tin.

Brown Cookies

Cake and sweetsSeasonal & Festive
Brown Cookies

Classic, crispy brown cookies with a warm Christmas spice flavor, perfect for cookie baking in December. The dough is easy to work with, and the result is the finest, crunchy Christmas cookies that spread the scent of coziness throughout the kitchen.

Posted on 12/5/2025

Servings

100

Total time

3 hours & 20 minutes

Servings

100

Total time

3 hours & 20 minutes

Ingredients

•
80 g light syrup
•
120 g brown sugar
•
140 g butter
•
250 g all-purpose flour
•
50 g almonds
•
2 tsp ground cinnamon
•
1 tsp ground ginger
•
1 tsp ground cloves
•
½ tsp allspice
•
A pinch of salt
•
1 tsp potassium carbonate (potash)
•
½ tbsp cold water

Instructions

1

Melt the brown sugar, butter, and syrup in a saucepan over low heat.

2

Blanch the almonds and chop them finely.

3

Mix the flour, almonds, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice, and salt, and stir it together with the sugar mixture.

4

Dissolve the potash in water and knead it into the dough.

5

Chill the dough for 30 minutes.

6

Roll the dough into logs with a diameter of about 5 cm.

7

Wrap the logs in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

8

The next day, slice the logs into thin slices and distribute them on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.

9

Bake the brown cookies at 200°C (conventional oven) for 5 minutes.

10

Once the cookies have cooled, store them in an airtight tin.


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