Name: Pfeffernüsse
Yield: Makes about 24 cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1¼ cups [175 g] all-purpose flour; ¼ tsp cream of tartar; ¼ tsp ground cinnamon; ⅛ tsp fine sea salt; ½ cup [60 g] powdered sugar; ¼ tsp ground nutmeg; 1 large egg, room temperature; 1 cup [200 g] brown sugar, packed; ¼ cup [55 g] unsalted butter, room temperature; ¼ tsp baking soda; ¼ tsp ground cloves; ½ tsp ground anise; ¼ tsp Finely ground black pepper

For many in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, and here in America, the holidays just wouldn’t be complete without pfeffernüsse. These festive spice cookies, dusted in powdered sugar, are traditionally made with an abundant blend of aromatic spices—ours feature anise and black pepper, which give them a really distinctive flavor, as well as cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

Of sturdy stock, these cookies are made to last, and their spicy infusion only gets better with age. Historically,