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Brigita's Sweet Pumpernikel

The fruit and peel make this little treat delicious!

Category: Baking, Biscuits, Cookies
Style: Latvian
Keyword: Biscuits, Christmas Biscuits, Christmas Cookies, Cookies, Fruit Biscuit, Fruit Cookies, Gluten Free Option, Pumpernikel, Sweet Pumpernikel
Quantity: 120 biscuits
Author: sbaskitchen
Ingredients
  • 200 g butter
  • 400 g sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
  • 3 drops of almond extract
  • 500 g plain flour
  • 300 g ground almonds
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 125 g candied citrus peel
  • 100 g glace fruit diced
  • 75 g currants
  • 60 g glace ginger diced
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 175˚C (fan).
  2. Line 3 baking trays with baking paper.
  3. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  4. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  5. Add fruit and dry ingredients and mix well to combine.
  6. Roll into 2 cm thick sticks and lay across the lined baking tray, leaving space for spreading.
  7. Bake for 20 minutes, until golden.
  8. Cut on the diagonal while still warm.

  9. Lay out on baking trays and dry in a tepid oven. (See notes.)

Notes

To dry out the sweet pumpernikel, I heat the oven to 150˚C (fan), return the biscuits to the oven, turn the oven off and then leave them in the residual heat overnight .

 

For gluten free sweet pumpernikel replace flour with Gluten Free Flour Blend, add an additional tsp of GF baking powder and 1 tsp xanthan gum.

 

First published:  24 December 2019
Last updated:  10 July 2026