Swedish Caramel Cookies - Kolasnittar - Using Ankarsrum

[@savannahv1808]

I baked these today and they are wonderful. Your recipe and instructions worked beautifully! I have watched your videos for quite some time and enjoy the wide variety recipes you provide. Thank you!

[@geoffsbakingblog]

HI Savannah V. That's great. I am so pleased they turned out well for you. I hope you enjoy more of my videos too.

[@bethandavies6935]

Delicious! Great recipe and easy to follow

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Bethan. Thanks very much.

[@spiderbirdiespiderbidie1807]

These look divine. I think that I will have mine with coffee. Thanks for the great recipe, Geoff.

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Spiderbirdie. Thanks very much. I hope you enjoy yours.

[@rlyndon1]

Thanks for your great tips on the biscuits - I made them day and turned out beautiful😁

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Robyn. That's great. I am glad you enjoyed them.

[@sietskepoepjesFRL]

Thanx for this tutorial. Very helpful! Happy new year, BTW.

[@geoffsbakingblog]

HI Sietske Poep;jes. You are most welcome. Happy New Year to you too.

[@maeflorogario3733]

Hi geoff hope all is well Love cookies in all kinds maybe because of the butter🥰🥰🥰

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Maeflor Ogario. Yes thanks, all is well. I love buttery cookies too.

[@susannahp8107]

Looks delicious Geoff and simple, thank you!

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Susannah P. Thanks very much.

[@hildoananias1147]

My daughter likes to make these so much!! They are awesome. (but even better with Molasses instead of golden syrup...). Thanks!!!! Here in the Netherlands they sell them as Bastogne koekjes.

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Hildo Ananias. That's great. I am glad you enjoy them.

[@rlyndon1]

I have just bought the new Ankarsrum machine and I am so happy with the machine as it comes with two bowls I can still make my sponges and pavlovas but I do love making bread but I feel this would be the best mixer I have ever had😁they told me that if I want to make the caramel biscuits you do bigger loads in the bread bowl with the roller and scrapper so I might give it a try🤩

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Robyn. I do hope you enjoy your new mixer. It is brilliant for making doughs etc, which is what the original version from the 1940s was made for. Large volume of dough are so easy. The second bowl does give some flexibility too. I am sure making some cookie/biscuit doughs will be easy in larger volumes as you suggest, with the dough roller.

[@UrbanSikeborg]

I remember my mother used to bake these "toffee cuts" (that would be the literal translation of kolasnittar) in the late 1970s, on our farm in northern Sweden. They were considered good "everyday cookies," but not because they were cheaper: they were easy to make and didn't take much time from the beginning to the end. Offering every visitor - from the mailman to the chimney sweeps and the farmers around - coffee with cardamom buns and several types of cookies was still like an almost religious thing then, so my mother was constantly baking, using the precursor of the Ankarsrum mixer. Kolasnittar are both crunchy and chewy at the same time (something I was unused to as a child).

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Urban Sikeborg. It seems you were a lucky boy to have all that lovely baking to enjoy. The Ankarsrum, in various guises, has be a stalwart of baking in Sweden for so many years, it seems.

[@julie-joywilliams7280]

Hello Geoff, I very much enjoy when you introduce new bakes on your channel and this one is a new one for me... The look lovely as is I love a chewy cookie from time to time... As I watch you eating and describing it I thought it might make a nice cookie for an ice cream sandwich... a slight slab or slice of vanilla ice cream in-between 2 of those cookies cut just a little wider and then placed back in the freezer till ready to eat might be a nic treat in the summer...

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Julie-joy I might try that, though I haven't bought ice-cream of any sort for at least 10 years. As a child we used to have ice-cream wafers. Slabs of ice-cream between two thin wafer biscuits. They were very good.

[@julie-joywilliams7280]

@@geoffsbakingblog Very good! let me know how it taste for you it you do it...

[@elainelucier6243]

Good morning, Geoff. What mixer is that? The cookies look delicious.

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Elaine. It is an Ankarsrum, from Sweden. Originally designed and produced in the 1940, and still the machine and dough bowl is almost the same. The beater bowl which I used is a more recent addition to the model.

[@marymauldin3229]

Good morning Geoff. We don't have golden syrup here but I believe that there's a syrup that can be substituted for it. A lot of people use it on pancakes. Thank you.

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Mary. I think any syrup which has a sugar base, will give a nice caramel flavour. Molasses, light perhaps, would work well. Of course, golden syrup is very easy to make and, since it is really just sugar and water with a little drop of lemon, it keeps very well. Steve Owen has a very good video on how to make it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoXaZIute9h8q8k

[@marymauldin3229]

@@geoffsbakingblog Thank you.

[@UrbanSikeborg]

I've read that corn syrup, light molasses or even light treacles can be used as substitutes in baking for the common Swedish golden syrup ("ljus sirap"). I often replace a smaller part of the golden syrup with dark molasses in Swedish pastries for a fudgier note. I accidentally bought a bottle of dark carob molasses many years ago, so I started like that just to get rid of it. But I discovered I liked it more that way.

[@Kurt-fg6dk]

Brill…just like on p47 of the Ankarsrum recipe book! 😂 It was helpful to see someone baking them beforehand though. I’m doing the same in my Ankasrum (silver too) tomorrow. Have you tried any other recipes from the book? I wanted to try the toasting bread but 4 loaves are too many. I’ll have to reduce the formula using bakers %’s ….

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Kurt. Thanks. I don't think I have tried any other of the recipes yet. But I have used the Ankarsrum for a number of recipes. I have an Ankarsrum playlist on the channel.

[@AnnaA-iq5wr]

Add 1-2 tsp of ground ginger, it's delicious

[@geoffsbakingblog]

HI Anna A. I might give that a try.

[@delilahboa]

Hi Geoff, how are you?……what a brilliant, easy recipe, I couldn’t believe how much they changed once baked! I’m going to make these tomorrow! Can’t wait …..I’m going to make these with the golden syrup because you said it’s the ideal addition, but I was wondering, do you think maple syrup could be used too? Would it be the exact same amount too?…..We LOVE maple syrup so I’d love to make a future batch with this for a variation, with you mentioning molasses as an option……I promise, last question 😊 but could you spell the name of that amazing mixer you used? I’ve never seen one like it before, l love it because it’s different, I’ve looked to see if it’s in your notes but can’t seem to find it……thanks so much Geoff, have a lovely evening……love Jan xx❤xx

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi Jan. I am fine thanks. Yes maple syrup would work well, in the same proportions, but with a different flavour. The mixer is an Ankarsrum, if you search and look at some videos you will see it is more usually used for making dough in small and large amounts, in a much larger bowl. But the small beater bowl that I used is great for cakes, cookies and meringue/cream beating.

[@delilahboa]

@@geoffsbakingblog thanks Geoff, re the syrup…..love the mixer, thanks for the name, I’ve just come back to my post to take the question out as I saw another subscriber had already asked you, but you beat me to it! sorry about that, I’ll read all your comments in future 1st before I ask any more questions, just to save you having to repeat yourself!……glad you’re ok 😊 thanks again Geoff….see you soon xx❤xx

[@geoffsbakingblog]

@@delilahboa Oh I never forego the opportunity to repeat myself. LOL.

[@juliebigge]

Could you do a tutorial on how to make golden syrup at home?

[@geoffsbakingblog]

HI Julie. I will think about that. Golden syrup is cheap in the UK. However I have often recommended this video by Steve Owens who shows how to make it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoXaZIute9h8q8k

[@juliebigge]

@@geoffsbakingblog Thank you! I can't find it here in the northeast of the US! I figured it'd be cheaper to make it than have to order it 😎

[@geoffsbakingblog]

@@juliebigge oh yes it will be cheaper to make than to buy online.

[@brucebowen100]

Dessa kakor är väldigt läckra. This is how they say it in Sweden. Thanks for the video.

[@geoffsbakingblog]

That is quite the mouthful, recent birthday boy.

[@NiobiumThyme]

You had me at carmel. Lol

[@geoffsbakingblog]

Hi T W. Well it is almost impossible to resist.

[@delilahboa]

Me too TW 😊