Norwegian cookies sweeten the holidays

Like many people, Norwegians and other Scandinavians go to great lengths in their holiday baking at Christmas time. They don’t make just one or two kinds of cookies, they make seven classic kinds to share with friends and family. While there is some disagreement as to which cookies are considered the classics, seven seems to be the magic number.

Some of those cookie choices are gingernuts (like ginger snaps); gingerbread (pepperkaker); fattigmann (the recipe for this ‘poor man’s cookie’ is over 100 years old); kokosmakroner (coconut macaroons); goro (rich man’s cookie); sandkake (like tart she...