Speculaas
Serves: 6
Jewel Boehm
1 January 1970
Based on User reviews:
59
Spice
48
Sweetness
43
Sourness
40
mins
Prep time (avg)
4.4
Difficulty
Ingredients:
3 cups
All-Purpose Flour1.5 tsps
Ground Cinnamon1 tsp
Ground Cloves1 tsp
Ground Ginger1 tsp
Baking Powder1 tsp
Salt1 cup
Butter (softened)1.25 cups
Brown Sugar (packed)1
Egg1 cup
Almond (sliced)Directions:
1
In a medium-sized bowl, mix the flour with spices, baking powder and salt
2
In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar at high speed until light and fluffy
3
Beat in the egg and mix well
4
Stir in by hand half the flour mixture, then add the remaining flour and almonds
5
Mix with a wooden spoon or knead with hands
6
Divide dough into four parts, wrap in plastic and refrigerate for several hours
7
(If you are using a mold, chill it as well
8
) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) and grease two cookie sheets
9
Remove one quarter of the dough from the refrigerator and flatten it with your hands
10
Oil your mold and lightly flour it
11
Using your fingers, press dough firmly into the mold
12
Trim any excess dough from the mold with a knife
13
Transfer the cookies onto greased cookie sheets with a spatula, spacing about one inch apart
14
Refrigerate dough trimming to be rerolled later
15
Lightly flour but do not re-oil cookie mold
16
Repeat process with remaining dough
17
When cookie sheets are full, bake cookies for 20 - 25 minutes or until golden brown around the edges
18
Store in a covered tin