Recipe Details

Summary

Name: Pfeffernüße (german Christmas Cookies)

Category: Oktoberfest

2 cups brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. baking soda

1 Tbs. hot water

1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds), finely ground

2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1 tsp. ground nutmeg

3 cups sifted all−purpose flour.

1 cup powdered sugar (for rolling cookies in)

Mix the sugar with the well−beaten eggs. Add the soda dissolved in hot water, the

nuts and sift in the spices with the flour. Add more flour if needed to make a dough

stiff enough to roll. Roll out until the dough is about 1/8 inch thick. Cut into tiny

rounds about as large as a quarter of a dollar and bake in oven at 400° F until golden

brown. Take out and roll at once in powdered sugar.