Pepperkaker [Norwegian holiday ginger cookies]

This week on Dak and Ju, we made Ju's family recipe for the Norwegian holiday ginger cookie: pepperkaker. Contrary to our typical cookie preference, these are delightfully light and crispy.
Pepperkaker are arguably the most popular Christmas cookie in Norway, though they can be found as "pepparkakor" in Sweden, too.
While they don't have brown sugar in them, the molasses makes them taste like a buttery brown sugar cookie with spiciness from ground ginger.
Ju makes these every year during the holidays, but they don't last long. They're the perfect pair to a morning cup of coffee, afternoon cup of tea or snack in between meetings because damn that meeting was boring (not speaking from experience, obviously).
They're also an excuse to use the cookie cutters you store all year. For years Dak called these "squirrel cookies" because every time Ju had cut them into squirrels-turns out this was just the only cookie cutter she had.
If you don't have any cookie cutters, good on you. Just roll them out thin and use a glass to stamp out circles.
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