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Recipe Speculaas (Cookie)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
Preparing/Cooking:
- In a medium-sized bowl, mix the flour with spices, baking powder and salt.
- In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar at high speed until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg and mix well.
- Stir in by hand half the flour mixture, then add the remaining flour and almonds.
- Mix with a wooden spoon or knead with hands.
- Divide dough into four parts, wrap in plastic and refrigerate for several hours.
- (If you are using a mold, chill it as well.
- )Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) and grease two cookie sheets.
- Remove one quarter of the dough from the refrigerator and flatten it with your hands.
- Oil your mold and lightly flour it.
- Using your fingers, press dough firmly into the mold.
- Trim any excess dough from the mold with a knife.
- Transfer the cookies onto greased cookie sheets with a spatula, spacing about one inch apart.
- Refrigerate dough trimming to be rerolled later.
- Lightly flour but do not re-oil cookie mold.
- Repeat process with remaining dough.
- When cookie sheets are full, bake cookies for 20 - 25 minutes or until golden brown around the edges.
- Store in a covered tin.
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