Speculoos (A Flemish Spice Cookie)
"I could not believe that there wasn't a recipe for Speculoos on the Zaar. Did a search while I was crunching down on a couple of them - the others I saved to dunk into my coffee. To my mind, there is no better cookie to enjoy with a cup of (very good) coffee. Thin, crunchy, spicy. They are perfection. Be sure to roll the dough out very thin (I'd say about 1/8th of an inch. Adapted from a recipe found on epicurious (I like my speculoos spicier)."
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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4 dozzen (approximately)
ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 3⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 1⁄4 cups packed dark brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 egg
- flour, for rolling
directions
- Combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and cloves in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Cream brown sugar and butter together in a large bowl. Add the egg and beat until fluffy. Add the dry ingredients gradually and mix until combined.
- Divide the dough in two halves. Flatten each half and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350°F Grease two baking sheets. Lightly flour a work surface and your rolling pin. Roll out each dough piece until very thin. Cut cookies with a cookie cutter, roll out remaining dough and cut again. Repeat with the second dough piece.
- Put cookies on the baking sheets and bake until the edges start to darken, about 8 minutes. Transfer to a rack and cool.
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I've had this recipe printed off to try since 2009, and finally made it. They taste just like biscoff cookies, sweet, spicy, and crisp. Next time I think I might add a little more clove. So happy to have found this recipe since the store-bought cookies make me sick :)
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
