Swedish Rye Cookies

Powder-kissed and fairly, these Swedish Rye cookies are good for vacation cookie fans (or, anybody actually!) after a not-too-sweet, shortbread-style butter cookie. I make them with a mix of rye and complete wheat pastry flours, and in addition break with custom when it comes including a secret ingredient. As a result of I like the style of toasted rye bread slathered with cream cheese, I exploit a butter/cream cheese mixture for the dough – as a substitute of a butter-only dough.

These cookies could be baked into all kinds of shapes though I do wish to roll & stamp them. The dough is usually straightforward to work with and I’ve discovered that cutters from tremendous small as much as medium-large in measurement work rather well.

Different Concepts

I think you might experiment with different flours rather than the rye and anticipate good outcomes – barley or oat flours may work nicely. I used to be additionally excited about doing a savory model of this cookie with herbs and grated cheese rather than most/the entire sugar – turning it right into a buttery rye cream-cheese herb cracker…

Variations

Plenty of you’ve gotten commented through the years with profitable variations on this recipe. I wished to focus on a pair right here with the hope that it is perhaps useful!

• Can these be tailored to be vegan? Truman notes, “I changed the butter and cream cheese with earth steadiness vegan buttery stick and tofutti higher than cream cheese. This made it a bit extra coronary heart wholesome, and vegan as nicely.” And alongside these traces, Keri provides, “I made the vegan model of those as nicely! They’re scrumptious – I added some grated orange zest and floor anise seed, and so they remind me of a less-crispy model of my grandma’s pepperkaker.”
• KanelBulle spiced issues up, “I mixed this with the gingerbread concept by including spices – ginger, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon – and utilizing a darkish sugar that is known as “molasses sugar”. It got here out brilliantly (even when I don’t have the cutters to make these rings).”

I wish to make these cookies not simply across the holidays, however all through the remainder of the yr as nicely tbh. In the event you’re right here and looking out for vacation/ Christmas cookie recipes, I’ve compiled a bunch of favorites from previous holidays into one place. Or, right here when you’re merely searching for extra cookie recipe inspiration. I notably love these chocolate puddle cookies, this shortbread, these particular snickerdoodles, this millionaire’s shortbread, and these triple ginger cookies.