Don’t know why they call it Finish sticks but they are superlicious origin Swedish pastries. These cookies taste like butter cookies and are very simple to bake. With the same batch of dough I will bake Finnish sticks and will also make Raspberry Caves for some deli variation. If you prefer one type, then you can skip the other ingredients.
Baking time: 20-25min + 30min dough resting time, serves approx. 40-50 cookies
Ingredients & Tools
- 200gr butter on room temperature
- 1dl sugar or lesser
- 1Tblsp vanilla sugar
- 4,5dl all purpose flour
- 1x egg
- Optional: handful pearl sugar
- Optional: handful crushed almond nuts or any that’s your favourite
- Optional: raspberry jam or any jam you like
- Baking paper and baking tray
- 1x big bowl
- 1x baking brush
- 1x teaspoon
- 1x fork
What to do?
- Put all ingredients in one big bowl. Knead by hand or in a baking machine until its smoothly mixed. By hand it takes between10-15min.
- Split the dough in 2x plastic bags eg sandwich bag and flatten the dough.
- Put the bags in the fridge for 30min.
- Pre-heat oven on 175°C at conventional heating (oven symbol stripe on top and bottom).
- Beat the egg in a small bowl with a fork to use as egg wash for later.
- Take the dough out of the fridge. Break a piece and make a ball with your hand palms.
- ————- Make Finnish Sticks ————-
- Roll the dough on finger thick size strings.
- Cut stick pieces for about 4cm width.
- Brush a bit of egg wash over the stick pieces.
- Mix the sugar pearls and crushed nuts together (or use one of the two ingredients) and layer on the stick pieces.
- Put the sticks on the baking tray.
- ————- Make Raspberry Caves ————-
- Roll small balls for a cookie size and press a whole in the centre with your dumb.
- Scoop a bit jam with the teaspoon in the cookie centre.
- Egg wash is not needed here.
- Put the cookies on the baking tray.
- ————- Cookies in Oven ————-
- Bake for 9-10min in the middle of the oven.
- Cool off for at least 30min.
Enjoy your coffee & tea time with your delicious home baked fluffy Swedish cookies 🙂
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