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Chess cookies
Chess cookies
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Homemade Swedish chess cookies with the classical combination of cacao and vanilla. Guess why they are called chess cookies... because they resemble a chess board ! They are fun to do and you can make the traditional square shape, or why not make them as a circle for a change.

Ingredient List for 6 servings:
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50 gr Sugar
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120 gr Margarine
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150 gr Flour
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1 tablespoon Cacao powder
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1 teaspoon Vanilla sugar
Oven temperature:
200 degrees Celsius
Instructions:
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Pour the margarine, flour and sugar in a bowl and mix it with an electrical mixer until you have crumbles.
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Pour half of the crumbles in a bowl and the other half in another bowl.
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Pour the vanilla sugar in one of the bowls, and the cacao powder in the other.
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Mix first the bowl with the vanilla sugar. Mix the ingredients in to a dough.
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Mix the ingredients in the bowl with the cacao powder the same way.
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Now you have two dough. Divide the two dough in two, so you have two with cacao, and two with vanilla sugar.
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Firm the four pieces in to evenly big rolls.
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Place the vanilla sugar rolls over a cacao rolls, and press them together as a big roll. Make sure you have the white and dark side on opposite side of each other. Make a square or a round roll.
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Place the roll in the fridge for ten minutes.
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Preheat the oven at 200 degrees Celsius.
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Take out the roll from the fridge and cut the dough roll in slices approx half a centimeter wide.
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Place a baking paper on a baking sheet, and place the cookies on the baking paper.
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Place the cookies in the middle of the oven for ten minutes.
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Take out the cookies and let them cool down.
A selection of recipes from the same country.
This recipe is from Sweden
A typical way to do a pie in Sweden is to use beef minced meat. You can add different ingredients in this pie. The pie has a bottom but no top.
Homemade oatmeal cookies are one of the classical cookies for “fika” in Sweden. These are small chewy cookies with the taste of syrup and oatmeal. Fast to do in less than thirty minutes. When you take them out from the oven you can shape them by hanging them over a bottle. To make them more luxurious dip the edges in dark chocolate.
This is not a dessert or breakfast pancake, this is a main dish that is traditionally served with lingonberry jam (a non-sweet jam most probably to be found in a Scandinavian shop or at IKEA).
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