AUTHENTIC GERMAN PFEFFERNUSSE RECIPE

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Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 14

Ingredients Authentic German Pfeffernusse Recipe
(for about 20 pieces)
125 g honey
50 g sugar
2 tbsp butter
250 g flour, all purpose, unbleached
1/2 tsp Hirschhornsalz (Ammonium Carbonate)
Ammonium Carbonate (Baker's Ammonia) 2.7 oz
1 egg
2 tsp ginger bread spice - Such as Edora Lebkuchen Gewurz (Gingerbread Spices) 1 package - 0.5oz - see below
1/4 tsp white pepper (point of knife = Messerspitze, that is a tiny amount)
1 dash salt
125 g powdered sugar
1 tbsp rum or natural rum flavor

Steps:

Baking Instructions Authentic German Pfeffernusse Recipe
- Combine butter, honey and sugar, warm it until it has melted.
- Mix flour, egg, Hirschhornsalz and spices, add honey dough and knead it thoroughly with a hand mixer using the kneading hooks (or the hands).
- Form balls out of the dough and bake them on 190 C or 375 F for 12 minutes.
- Bake next portion only for 10 minutes.
- Make the glaze out of powdered sugar and rum and a bit of water by mixing all ingredients well until smooth.
- Spread glaze over the cooled off cookies and let them dry.
- Keep them at least 2 days in a tin box with a piece of bread or a piece of apple aside; this will make the cookies soft.
If you like you can make a dark chocolate glaze and spread it on half of the cookies, and have the other half side white.