Mjuk pepparkaka aka Swedish soft “pepper cookie” is a soft ginger pepper cake and is often served around Christmas period. When I first time ate it, it was during a family Christmas dinner with all other authentic Swedish delights to celebrate together. From all these delights on the table, I liked the old-fashioned home baked soft “pepper cookie” the most. At the first bite, you taste soft punchy flavours of cardamon, cloves and cinnamon. The texture is fluffy like a sponge cake with a refreshing fruity taste of berries. I just loved it, especially when it’s still warm and soft, just fresh coming out from the oven. This cake is very easy to bake. Let me know how your baking went on the Swedish Mjuk Pepparkaka 😊
Cooking time: approx. 1hr
Ingredients & Tools
- 100gr butter
- Extra butter to grease the cake form
- Breadcrumbs
- 2,5 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1,5 tsp ginger powder
- 1 tsp cardamon powder + ½ tsp very fine grinded cardamon seeds (personal preference). Or 1,5 tsp powder. Or 1,5 tsp grind seeds
- 1 tsp cloves very fine grinded (personal preference). Or 1,5 tsp cloves powder
- 3dl (3 cup) all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1dl (1cup) lingon berry jam, I buy them at Ikea
- Hand mixer
- Pestle & mortar
- Baking spatula
- 1x small pan
- 2x big bowl
- 1x small bowl for spice mix
- 1x cake form ~26cm
- 1x thin wooden stick picker / wooden chopstick
What to do?
- ————- Melt the butter & pre-heat oven————-
- Melt 100gr butter in a small pan and let it cool off.
- Pre-heat the oven on 175°C on fan function.
- Grease the cake form with butter.
- Pour a little bit of breadcrumbs in the cake form and shake it well until every butter surface is covered in breadcrumbs. Throw away excessive breadcrumbs.
- ————- Prepare spice mix ————-
- Use 1x small bowl to mix the spices and if desired grind seeds in pestle & mortar
- Add 2,5 tsp cinnamon powder
- Add 1,5 tsp ginger powder
- Add 1 tsp cardamon powder + 0,5 grind very fine cardamon seeds. This is my personal preference.
- 1 tsp very fine grounded cloves. This is my personal preference.
- ————- Prepare flour mix ————-
- Use 1 big bowl
- Add 3dl all-purpose flour in the bowl.
- Add 2 tsp baking powder in the bowl and stir with the flour mix.
- ————- Start baking ————-
- Use another big bowl, a hand mixer and a baking spatula.
- Break 2 eggs in the bowl and add 2 dl sugar. Use the mixer on medium speed until the it gets a light fluffy consistency.
- Add 125gr Greek yoghurt in the bowl and mix with medium speed.
- Then add the spice mix in the bowl and stir the batter with a spatula.
- Add the +1dl lingon berry jam (a little bit more than 1 cup) and stir slowly the batter with the spatula.
- Add ¼ of the flour mix in the bowl and continue stirring with the spatula. Repeat the process until the flour mix is all used. Make sure that there are no flour clumps in the batter.
- Finally, add the melted butter bit by bit and stir the batter with spatula.
- Pour the batter in the cake form and bake in the oven for 35min.
- Once done, push a thin wooden stick into the cake to check if it comes out dry. If the stick comes out wet, then the cake is not ready yet and require longer time in the oven.
Hope you like this Swedish soft pepper cookie and don’t find it too much work 😊
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