Saturday 24 December 2016

Dutch speculaas biscuits recipe

Christmas biscuits
Every Christmas I do baking and some of the recipes are becoming traditions in our family, like the Christmas bread filled with almond paste, the Dutch pastry wreath filled with almond paste and the speculaas biscuits.
Yesterday we had suddenly a big hailstorm while I was baking and it was not forecast,this is a setback for the local fruit growers, especially the berry growers in the area.
It felt a bit like winter, but today the summer sun is out again.


Some of my handpainted Christmas decorations

The sudden hail storm
The recipe for the speculaas biscuits:

250 gram flour
175 gram butter
200 gram brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
3 table spoons of milk
1 tablespoon of speculaas spices
or 1/2 tsp mace, 1/2 tsp aniseed, 1/4 tsp ground cloves, 1/4 tsp ground ginger, 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg, 21/2 tsp of cinnamon.

In a bowl add the flour, spices, sugar, baking powder and stir together.
Add the butter and the milk and knead the mixture with your hands into a soft ball and leave in the fridge for an hour or longer.
Roll the dough between two sheets of grease proof paper till 2 cm thick and use different biscuit cutters to cut out shapes.
Bake at 160 celsius oven for 10 minutes or till biscuits are brown.
Cool biscuits on tray and store in containers.

Have a blessed Christmas.

This week I am part of Paint Party Friday


5 comments:

  1. Thanks for this recipe, I plan to try it! Merry Christmas!

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  2. Looks yummy!! Happy PPF and happy holidays, too :)

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  3. mmmm I can just smell those biscuits:) Thanks for sharing the recipe. Good day for baking with that nasty weather. Love your handmade Christmas decorations too. Happy PPF and merry Christmas too!

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  4. The cookies look delicious, and I love your Old World Santa that you painted! And wow, I hope the hail storm didn't damage anything!

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  5. Lovely post. Thank you for your recipes. Wishing you a very happy 2017.

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