Swedish Spice Cookies recipe!
This recipe is reprinted with permission from Holiday Cookies by the Chicago Tribune staff, Agate Surrey, November 2014.
I love giving baked goods as gifts, and often feature recipes that are perfect for giving. So I was thrilled when the folks at the Chicago Tribune asked me to do a review of their new Holiday Cookies recipe book. Of course, just doing a review is impossible when you look at pages and pages of pretty baked goods. I had to make at least one! With sugar and spice and everything nice…how about Swedish Spice Cookies?
Ummm….yeah. They taste as amazing as they look! And just for you, I was able to reprint the recipe here! And since I am in the midst of a move here at chez Sitcom, I cannot hold onto this book for very long. There is only so much space in the RV.
So, a bit about this book. The Chicago Tribune has run an annual Holiday Cookie Contest for over three decades. They ask readers to submit recipes that are meaningful to them, accompanied by a brief description or story explaining why it is so special. The staff of food writers and editors then select finalists and publish the winning recipes.
Good Eating’s Holiday Cookies is a comprehensive collection of the best holiday cookie recipes from nearly three decades worth of reader submissions! This book has amazing photos and helpful baking tips and tons of great recipes! I had a very difficult time choosing which recipe to try!
Yummy recipes such as:
- Grandma Grump’s Peanut Butter Drizzles
- Coconut Cranberry Pinwheels
- Crispy Chocolate Jumbles
- Eggnog Cookies
- Pumpkin Maple Dreams
- Red Velvet Sandwich Cookies
And tons more! There are over 100 recipes in this book! So, let’s start with Swedish Spice Cookies…
Swedish Spice Cookies
2-1/4 cups all purpose flour, sifted before measuring
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 large egg
1/4 cup molasses
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Sift together flour, baking soda, spices and salt. Set aside.
In large bowl, beat the butter and 1 cup of sugar on high speed until light (about 1 minute).
Add egg and molasses and mix well.
Looking good! And smelling like gingerbread!
Add in the flour and mix well. You should end up with a stiff dough.
Now roll about 1-1/2 tsp full into a ball.
Roll it in the 1/2 cup of sugar.
And place them about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Put them in the pre-heated oven and bake for about 9 or ten minutes.
See how they crackle! Love this! Let them cool for a few minutes.
About this time, the kitchen may or may not fill up with hungry folks who have been smelling cookies baking for the last ten minutes. Let them have a warm cookie fresh from the oven. It’s called “brownie points”. Ha!
Swedish Spice Cookies make fabulous gifts! Fill up a tin with them and make folks smile. It’s all part of the holiday season!
Chocolate Chip Cookies loaded with Chocolate and Nuts!!! 🙂
Thank-You so much for a chance to win!
I don’t know their name, but love those cookies where the top one has a little opening and shows your the glorious jam underneath holding the two cookies together. I grew up in France and remember the wonderful smells in our kitchen when my mom was baking cookies around Christmas time. Native of Alsace we enjoyed mainly the gingerbread ones. They would be sold in the bakeries with a cut out picture of Saint Nicholas bringing toys to all the good children
Short bread cookies are my favorite.
Oatmeal Raisin
my favorite cookies have always been the little powdered sugar balls of heaven called “wedding cookies”. but honestly i have never met a cookie that i wasn’t at least happy to meet. (lol) i remember the days of the old Italian weddings, tables and tables of freshly baked cookies for all to eat. you always learned who was making the cookies and that would determine how big a “plate” you would bring to “have at them”. it created a life long love of all that is sweet and small and happy in my mouth. i am hoping this book has some of the old world recipes that the aunts and grandma’s would never give up!!!!!
There are so many, lol. My Mom used to make Peanut Butter Balls and they were the favorite of all who received them. I also really like Snikerdoodles (or Holidaydoodles) and Santa’s Whiskers. We would make Hundreds, if not thousands, of cookies at Christmastime – several different kinds. I miss making cookies with my Mom.
I am definitely going to try these cookies. Sound wonderful.
I love snickerdoodle, like your Swedish cookie without the spice.
We make these every year but call them Sugar Molasses Cookies. My favorite cookie is my Grandma’s molasses cookies. They are tied to so many memories.
I have so many favorite cookies…let’s see…..I think pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies are near the top of my list!
Hummmm………..would you believe my favorite is an oatmeal-chocolate chip-peanut butter-snickerdoodles-sugar cookie?? Just like eating potato chips, I just can’t pick one cookie!! Thanks
Anything with nuts
Any cookie with nuts…..
Sugar Cookies
looks like a great cook book
OMG only one? Oatmeal rasin and the ginger spice. T hanks so much for the rescipe.
My favorite cookies… Homemade decorated sugar cookies and ginger cookies… How do i pick just one or two? I am a Cookie Lover! lol
Chocolate Chip Coconut Pecan Oatmeal Cookies!
A couple of years ago, I discovered a Chocolate Gingerbread Cookie recipe – my two favorite flavors mixed together! What could be better!
(My ancestry is Swedish so I’m looking forward to trying the Swedish Spice Cookies this Christmas.)
My most favorite is the cutout sugar cookie with soft frosting. But, I like many others as well. Who am I to discriminate against any other cookie?
My favorite cookie is white chocolate macadamia nut!
My favorite cookies are oatmeal raisin.
These look yummy, love good cookbooks. Thanks for the chance to win!
Hmmm, that is a hard one. I do love molasses/spice cookies and I have a great recipe that uses pepper! But, I do love my snickerdoodles too!
My fav is Snickerdoodles but molasses is right at the top too. Cheney cookies but ,let’s face it, I’ll eat any cookie that doesn’t move. LOL
I really want to try the recipe you have posted here today! Swedish Spice cookies – they sound heavenly and I usually LOVE spice cookies (depending on how much spice is in them). Since your recipes and all of your craft ideas are superb, I’m sure the cookies will be wonderful as well. I’m making a batch today!
My favorite cookie is oat meal rasain.Love to win.
My favorite cookie is macadamia nut white chocolate chip.
Our favorite cookies are the Peanut Butter Choc Kisses! A must have in our home during the holidays! DiEtta 🙂
Love making cookies for Christmas gift baskets. Would love to win this book.
One cookie, you want me to choose one cookie…IMPOSSIBLE as I love ALL cookies. But if I really have to choose I have to go with the basic no bake oatmeal cookies.. So quick to make up when you need something fast. I sure would like to win the contest as I would give the book to my daughter who will be getting married 12/13/14…It would be a great starting point in her married life to be able to feed her man with some cookies…..
My favorite cookies are Spritz cookies. I only make them at Christmas and really look forward to them.
My favorite has to be the sugar cookies, they are so fun to decorate!
I have to choose just one? I guess it would be a gingersnap or molasses type cookie, much like the one you posted! That’s what drew me in to your post so quickly!
My favorite cookie is Pecan Butterscotch Chip – thanks.