On the shelves there are many sweets, both domestic and foreign. Particularly buyers are attracted by beautifully packaged chocolates and sweets. To decorate the festive table, you always want to buy something unusual. Danish cookies are very popular. This sweet has a long history, and traditional recipes are passed down from generation to generation.
Background
King Hans, who ruled the territory of Denmark, Norway and Sweden at the end of the XV-beginning of the XVI century, often fell into depression, his mood was unstable. Then the personal doctor prescribed him ginger cookies, prepared according to a special recipe. According to the doctor, everyone who eats these cookies daily will be in a good mood and will be happy.
This is not a legend, but an established historical fact: in one of the pharmacies of the capital of the kingdom, a certain pharmacist made a note stating that it was necessary to deliver the parcel with a tasty and healthy treat to the king.
And today, the Danes believe that cookies with ginger improves mood and brings happiness. There is a belief: if you squeeze such a cookie in your hand and it breaks into three parts, then the desired desire will certainly come true.
There are a lot of cookie recipes, as well as companies that produce this delicacy in original boxes with colorful images that make buyers feel like a holiday.
Plunge into a fairy tale
Danish cookies in a tin can are ideal as a gift to relatives and friends. Packaging topics are different: there are banks with New Year's drawings, with pictures of picturesque places of fairy-tale Denmark. A list of manufacturers of butter biscuits whose design will not leave indifferent even small sweet tooths:
- Kelsen Group Denmark. To the best of sweet, fragrant butter biscuits. There is an option with the taste of chocolate and citrus. Dessert sprinkled with grains of sugar. Kelsen Group Danish pastries are the perfect complement to tea or coffee. Delicate, crumbly, it just melts in your mouth, leaving a pleasant aftertaste.
- Butter cookies brand Bisca “Winter Trio”. Danish sugar cookies, small in size and different in shape, in a box with a cute Christmas decoration. The treat resembles homemade cakes and will be a great gift on the eve of the holiday.
- Creamy Cookies Jacobsens Bakery Ltd Regency Avenue. The company is well known in Europe for a long time, has been producing high-quality baked goods. Danish cookies with chocolate chips and coconut will make the tea party unforgettable, and a jar of Christmas motifs will become a table decoration.
Do it yourself
Famous cookies can be made at home. The recipe for a gentle sand treat.
For cooking you will need:
- 190 g butter;
- 2 g of salt;
- vanilla sugar or 2 small tablespoons of vanilla;
- 75 g of powdered sugar;
- protein of one chicken egg;
- 230 g of wheat flour.
How to cook:
- Turn on the oven at 180 degrees. Cover the baking sheet with parchment.
- Add salt to softened butter, whip with a mixer. When the mass has become creamy, add powdered sugar in parts, then beat until complete dissolution.
- Add egg white, beat again. Pour flour at the very end. Mix well until smooth.
- Using a pastry bag with an asterisk-shaped nozzle, squeeze the mass onto a baking sheet at a short distance from each other.
- Bake cookies for no more than 10 minutes.
To make baking even more aromatic, you can grease finished products with milk.
Conclusion
The Danes are very proud of their cookies. Its crunchy and at the same time melting base makes the taste of delicacies unforgettable, and tin boxes with colorful drawings are just a joy to the eyes of an esthete!