Goro

01 / ABOUT THE DISH

About the dish

Goro are traditional Norwegian Christmas cookies. They're usually made with a combination of flour, butter, eggs, sugar, vanilla, cardamom, and heavy cream. The smooth dough is wrapped in plastic and left in the fridge to chill for at least 8 hours before it's pressed with a special goro iron, which imprints beautiful decorative patterns on the dough and bakes the cookies as well. Once baked, each cookie is removed from the iron and placed on a wire rack to cool down. Once done, the cookies can be enjoyed immediately or stored in airtight containers once they are cold. It's recommended to serve the cookies with a cup of coffee on the side. Interestingly, in the past, some of the wealthier bakers had unique irons with their initials inscribed on the inside.