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Liquorice cookies

Ingredients

500 g brown sugar
250 g soft margarine
2 eggs  
500 g flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp grated ginger  
1 tsp ground cloves
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp licorice powder

150 g margarine
250 g powdered sugar
1 tsp licorice powder


Preparation  

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

Stir the sugar and margarine and together until foamy.

Add the eggs and mix too.

Then add the flour, baking powder, ginger, cloves and cinnamon as well as licorice powder and mix everything into a smooth dough.

Then place the finished dough with two teaspoons on a baking tray lined with baking paper, ...

 

...press lightly with the tines of a fork and then bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat on the middle rack for about 8 minutes.

Allow the cookies to cool thoroughly and then remove them from the baking paper.


For the cream filling, mix the butter with the icing sugar and the licorice powder thoroughly and beat until fluffy, spread the cream on the bottom of one cookie and place a second cookie on top.

Bon appetit!

[Translated from here.]