John Myers
Ingredients for 1 servings:
- 120 g flour, sifted
- ½ pack of baking powder, sifted into the flour
- 60 g butter
- 60 g sugar, brown, preferably dark basting sugar from the Netherlands
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp, heaped speculatius spice, slightly heaped, ready-made or mixed from the following ingredients
- ½ tsp clove powder
- ½ tsp nutmeg, freshly grated
- ½ tsp anise powder
- ¼ tsp ginger powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
Instructions
Working time approx. 20 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 12 minutes; Total time approx. 32 minutes
hard round cookies for St. Nicholas Day
Preheat the oven to 165 degrees Celsius (325 degrees Fahrenheit) top and bottom heat. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. If you’re not using store-bought speculaas spice, combine the spice mix ingredients and set aside 1 tablespoon for the dough. Sift the flour with the baking powder onto the countertop. Make a well in the center, add the remaining ingredients, and quickly knead into a smooth ball of dough. If the dough is too cracked and dry, add a little milk. If the dough is too sticky and wet, knead in a little flour. Form the dough into small balls, slightly smaller than marbles, and place them on the baking sheet at intervals. Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes until crisp and golden brown. These cookies are eaten on St. Nicholas Day and are part of the “Strooigoed” (traditional Christmas cookies). Mixed with other sweets (hard sugar foam and tumtum, a type of wine gum), they are sprinkled and distributed by the “Zwarte Pieten,” Sinterklaas’s helpers.
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