Peppernut Cookies / Pfeffernüsse ✪ MyGerman.Recipes
Peppernuts Christmas Cookies look a little like mushrooms. Their taste is really amazing with all the spices and especially with the pepper in it. Follow my recipe for how to bake Peppernuts for Christmas and keep them in an airtight container so they stay soft.
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Pfeffernüße Pfeffernuss Pfeffernüsse
Offenbacher Pfeffernüsse are a special treat and were already very popular in Goethe's time. These are traditional German spice cookies made for the Christmas holiday season. My friend is from Berlin and showed me how to make these special treats.
Pfeffernüße without almonds
A pinch is usually measured on the tip of a butter knife in German recipes (in recipes referred to as Messerspitze or Msp = tip of a knife)
Ingredients for dough
3 eggs
70 g sugar (optional)
150 g honey or beet syrup
2 tablespoons lemon juice (to activate the natron)
1 pinch of salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 large pinch of ginger
1 large pinch of cardamon
1 pinch cloves
1 pinch allspice
( I have a premade mix, so we’ll be using that)
1 large pinch pepper
75-100 g candied lemon and/or orange peel (minced)
350 g flour (sift in)
120 g fine bread crumbs
25 g natron or baking soda
1-2 tablespoons milk, if needed
Ingredients for the glaze
150 g powdered sugar
1-2 tablespoons water, lemon juice or other fluid (spiced cider for our baking)
1 egg white (optional)
Preheat oven to 375 F
Preparation
- Beat eggs with sugar, beet syrup, lemon juice, ginger and spices until foamy.
* Mix flour with baking soda, sift into the whet mix and knead it into a dough with crumbs and minced peel.
* (If the dough is too dry add a tablespoon milk, too whet, more flour)
- Roll the dough into little balls or use a small disher, press slightly flat, and place them on a parchment covered baking sheet.
Put sheet on the middle rack in the oven.
Baking time: approx.10 - 12 minutes
Glaze
Whip the glaze ingredients into a thick glaze and brush onto the warm cookies. Place them onto a drying rack.
Let cool and dry completely before storing in cookie tins.
Don’t eat right away or the cookies will taste harsh and bitter.
Let mature in their tin for at least 3 days, a week is better.
Professional Baker Teaches You How To Make PFEFFERNUSSE COOKIES!
Pfeffernusse Cookies are on the menu in Chef Anna Olson's amazing kitchen, and she is going to teach you how to make this delicious recipe from scratch! Follow along with the recipes below!
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Recipe
Yield: About 3 ½ dozen
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
6 Tbsp (90 mL) honey
6 Tbsp (75 g) granulated sugar (caster sugar)
¼ cup (50 g) packed dark brown sugar
¼ cup (60 g) unsalted butter, melted
1 large egg
1 egg yolk
2 cups (300 g) all-purpose flour (plain flour)
¾ tsp (4 mL) baking soda
½ tsp (2 mL) EACH of ground cinnamon, cardamom, anise seed, allspice, clove, and black pepper
¼ tsp (1 mL) salt
icing sugar, for rolling the baked cookies
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 325 F (160 C). Line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.
2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk the honey, granulated sugar, brown sugar, melted butter, egg and egg yolk. Sift the flour, baking soda, spices and salt over the sugar mixture and stir until evenly blended (the batter will be dense). Use a small ice cream scoop (#60 size), or 2 teaspoons to scoop the batter and then shape them into balls between the palms of your hands place them onto the prepared trays, leaving 2-inches (5 cm) between each. Bake for 14-16 minutes until the cookies are lightly browned. Cool the cookies on the tray and then roll them in icing sugar to coat them completely.
The cookies will keep up to 5 days in an airtight container.
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INGREDIENTS:
2 sticks (1 cup, 224 gr) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups (336 gr) dark brown sugar, lightly packed
2 large eggs
2 1/2 tsp anise extract (this is traditional in this recipe, but can be left out if you do not like anise. I have made them without several times and they are still delicious)
1/4 tsp table salt or Morton kosher salt (use 1/2 tsp if using Diamond kosher)
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp white pepper
1/2 tsp ground cardamom or clove (clove is more traditional, but I prefer the flavor of cardamom)
3 1/2 cups (420 gr) all purpose flour (measured properly-lightly spooned into measuring cups without packing in and leveled off)
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Peppernuts (or Pfeffernusse Cookies) are a traditional German cookie often made in Mennonite communities in the US. They are a very delicious, tiny, crunchy cookie filled with warming spices and are perfect for gift giving during the holidays!
Growing up in Kansas, there was one particular cookie that was a staple at every holiday event: Peppernuts. The area where I grew up (Hutchinson, KS) has a fairly large population of German Mennonite and because this is a traditional German recipe, these addictive little cookies are very popular during the holidays.
My family in particular did not make these amazing cookies, rather we would often receive them as gifts from various other people. The cookies from each person we received them from would have a slightly different flavor, and I personally loved them all. It seems each family’s recipe has a different variation on the spice combination, and in talking to friends from my hometown who do have family recipes, they are quite opinionated and passionate about what should go into them!
The one main ingredient that seems to have a general consensus from the group is that anise (most recipes use anise oil) is an absolute must in a true peppernut. Beyond that, most recipes use ground cinnamon and ground ginger, and then others add various combinations of cloves, allspice, nutmeg, and some use ground nuts or nut flour.
One ingredient that I was surprised wasn’t a unanimous “absolutely yes” from the group, is the use of white pepper in the cookies. I have always added it to mine and had believed this is where the cookies got the “pepper” part of their name and really what makes them so unique and special. But I learned that this ingredient is also controversial. About half use pepper and half do not. I am very much on Team Pepper in these special little cookies!
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BEST Holiday Cookies: Pfeffernüsse
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Pfeffernüsse Recipe:
90g Butter
90g Sugar
1x Egg
100g honey
300g weizenmehl
100g almond flour
5g baking powder
2g ground cinnamon
1.5g white pepper
1.1g ground ginger
.8g nutmeg
.8g aniseed, ground2
3-4x clove, ground
For the Icing:
375g confectioner's sugar
90ml lemon juice
-Sift both flours with spices and baking powder.
-Cream the butter, sugar and egg. Add honey.
-Add the flours and knead well.
-Line a baking tray with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 150C/300F.
-Form small 20g balls of dough with your hands and place them on the baking tray with a little space between them. Bake for 15 minutes. Leave to cool completely.
-For the icing, mix all well.
-Coat the pfeffernüsse and let rest on wire rack until icing has set.
((the above recipe has been updated slightly from the the video, I think it's a small but worthwhile improvement))
Pfeffernüsse Spiced & Iced Cookies
Well, what can I say about these delightful cookies? I have been eating pfeffernüsse and lebkuchen cookies since I was a wee one. My heritage is 3/4 German (you'd never know it to hear me stumble through some of these words- plus kind of mispronouncing pfeffernüsse) but what can I say? These spiced and iced cookies are remarkably easy, and look at how cute they are! Never buy store bought again!
*Recipe is from a lovely blog called The Daring Gourmet. I searched for the perfect recipe, and I think I found it!