How to make Norwegian cookies called a sand kage?

Recipe Mix butter and flour until crumbly. Add ground almonds, egg, and sugar. Work ingredients together with your hands. Let dough rest for an hour in the refrigerator. Press into greased sandkake forms. Bake at 350º F for 10-15 minutes. Let cookies cool slightly before you remove them from the forms.

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Sandkaker – Sand Cookies | Sons of Norway (2024)

NORWEGIAN CULTURE

Ingredients

3/4 cup + 2 Tbsp. butter
1 cup + 1 1/2 Tbsp. flour
7 Tbsp. or about 1/2 cup almonds, blanched and ground
1 egg
7 Tbsp. sugar

Recipe

Step 1

Mix butter and flour until crumbly.

Step 2

Add ground almonds, egg, and sugar. Work ingredients together with your hands.

Step 3

Let dough rest for an hour in the refrigerator.

Step 4

Press into greased sandkake forms. Bake at 350º F for 10-15 minutes.

Step 5

Let cookies cool slightly before you remove them from the forms.

Excerted from December, 1999, Viking Magazine “Velkommen til Bords.” Recipe from TINE Norske Meierier, the Norwegian dairy cooperative. Recipe is translated and converted from metric to U.S. measurements.

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