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Speculaas Cookies
These beautiful spiced Dutch biscuits are perfect with a cup of tea. To ensure that they cook evenly, make them a similar size and thickness.
Prep Time
20 mins
plus chilling
Cook Time
15–20 mins
Serves
makes 25-30 cookies
Baking
Vegetarian
Nut Free
Special Occasions
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Kids
Ingredients
225 g butter, softened
3/4 cup soft brown sugar
2 tbsp milk
1 cup plain flour
1 cup self-raising flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp ground ginger
a pinch of salt
Method
STEP 1
Preheat oven to 160°C fanbake and line 2 oven trays with baking paper.
STEP 2
Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, beat in milk, then sift in dry ingredients and mix to form a crumbly dough.
Form into a ball, flatten, wrap in baking paper and chill for 1 hour.
STEP 3
Place dough on a sheet of baking paper, lay another sheet of baking paper on top and roll out thinly.
Cut into desired shapes, transfer to prepared oven trays and bake until lightly golden (15-20 minutes).
If your oven cooks unevenly you may need to turn the trays around halfway through the cooking time to ensure even cooking.
Allow biscuits to cool on the tray for 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Once fully cooled, store in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
