The Gingerbread experiment - what's cooking this Xmas?

A short story on my journey to find the best gingerbread recipe. I've looked high and low in the internet and also at some point gave in to getting the store bought frozen dough (yuck!). I have also tried the ones that had eggs and to my big disappointment the texture of the cookie was not what I expected. Let's put it this way. The ones that contain egg's texture got worse each passing day.

I've also looked high and low in stores for the best ready spice mixture for the gingerbread cookies. I've found that the Á la Meira ones are better than the Santa Maria. The reason being that I do like my gingerbread cookies to have a hint of citrus (this being the bitter orange or in Finnish pomeranssi).

Blue Bag - Santa Maria Gingerbread spice
and
Yellow-green Bag- á la meira Gingerbread spice

If you cannot find this in your local store (wherever you are) I've measured a good recipe spice mix to get close to the á la meira spice as possible.

I've done an experiment to put 1/5 parts of Santa Maria Gingerbread mix and 4/5 parts of the Á la Meira Gingerbread mix and the cookies are still splendid.

The difference between the two spices are:

Santa Maria:-
Ginger
Cinnamon,
Clove
Cardamom

Á la Meira:-
Ginger
Cinnamon
Clove
Bitter Orange

I don't mind having cardamom in my cookies but too much is too much. I'm not making pulla! I'll create the Gingerbread cookie recipe is both English and Finnish, since this is a more Finnish traditional recipe ;-).