Glögi & Gingerbread recipe
Discover the perfect holiday recipes for a cozy Christmas!
This traditional Nordic Glögi and Gingerbread recipe brings warm spices, rich flavors, and festive cheer to your celebrations.
Easy to make and perfect for sharing!!
Glögi recipe
1 l cranberry juice
1 l apple juice
100 ml black currant concentrate
1 bottle red wine
4x cinnamon sticks
2 tbs mixed spice
1 tbs treacle syrup or brown sugar
1 ts cloves
2x oranges (chopped into wedges)
Mix all the ingredients part from the red wine in a pot and let it simmer up to 4hours then add the red wine and sieve trough a fine sieve.
Best outcome you get if you prepare the glögi one day before and let it sit for over night and then sieve before serving. When re-heating don’t let the it boil just until it simmers.
Alcohol free, instead of wine add another 1l cranberry juice.
Gingerbread recipe
125 g of salted butter
80 g brown sugar
100 g of treacle syrup
1 ts ground cinnamon
1 ts ground ginger
1 ts mixed spice
1 egg
1 ts bicarbonate of sooda
300 g of plain flour
Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan together, once melted, let the mixture cool to room temperature. Add the egg and mixed dry ingredients. Combine all tighter and let the dough sit in the fridge from 1h to overnight.
Roll the dough into 1cm thick disk, using the ginger cookie cutter cut the cookies and bake in 190c for 4-6 minutes until starting to brown from the edges. Once cooked, let it sit for couple minutes in the room temperature before serving or decorating.
You can also freeze the dough and use it when ever you like =)
Gingerbread icing recipe
1 egg white
180g icing sugar
1/2 ts lemon juice
Whisk all the ingredients together and place it in a piping back.
