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Danish Christmas Cookies and Mulled Wine / Glögg

To me, nothing tastes more like Christmas than Danish Christmas Cookies / Brunkager – a crisp, spiced cookie – and Glögg – a mulled hot wine. Here are my family’s recipes 🙂 Danish Christmas Cookies / Brunkager 7 ounces butter 7 ounces sugar 1/2 cup sirup 1 tbsp cinnamon 1 tbsp ginger 1 tsp ground cloves 12.5 ounces all-purpose flour or more 1 tsp baking soda 3.5 ounces chopped almond slivers (optional) 1.8 ounces grated organic orange peel How you do it: Mix butter, sugar, sirup and spices well. In a separate bowl mix the flour and baking soda well. Then mix this into the first mixture. Knead the dough together with almonds and orange peel. Add more flour if needed. Divide the dough into 2-3 equally big parts. Roll and shape them so you have 2-3 fat rolls. Then you wrap each of them in plastic foil and store them in the fridge overnight – or longer. Cut the rolls into 3-4 millimeter thick slices which you place on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Leave …