Time Travel Kitchen

Cookie Finale

Cookie Platter Finale

It’s been a lot of fun for me over the past seven days of cookie baking and I hope you’ve enjoyed it too.

This is my final post for 2021 and I’ll be back here the week of January 17 with more recipes (including recipes from the 1940’s and ‘50’s) and some new, expanded features and options.

Thank you all so much for following along over the past months. I wish you and your loved ones wonderful holidays and all the very best in the New Year.

And now, the Cookie Finale.

All of the cookies in the photo above are the recipes featured over the past week. Today I’ve added the stars which are tiny gingerbread cookies dusted with confectioners sugar from a 1924 Swedish cookbook recipe that I learned about from a terrific site Katrina and Patrik Baking —they are baking vintage recipes in their home in Sweden.

With their permission I’m sharing this recipe for Gingerbread from their site. I purchased Lyle’s Golden Syrup to make them and the heating of the syrup with the spices and sugar on the stove reminded me of the scent of walking into a church. In other words, divine. I’ve also included their recipe for saffron buns baked last week for the Feast of St. Lucia if you’d like to try them.

Katrina’s Pepparkakor (Gingerbread) and Semlor (Saffron Buns) with vintage cookbooks

Recipe: Gingerbread (Pepparkakor)

Note: Katrina suggests using less flour, so I used 1/2 cup less.

Recipe: St. Lucia Saffron Buns (Semlor)

Enjoy and see you next month!

All the best,

Jolene

Photo of cookie platter: Jolene