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Speculaas / Speculoos or Spekulatius

One of my favourite Christmas cookies are spekulatius biscuits, they are also known asspeculaasor speculoos. I remember we always used...

Speculaas / Speculoos or Spekulatius

Ingredients

200g / 7oz organicself-raising flour
100g / 3½ ozlight brown castersugar
100g/ 3½ oz softened butter
2-3 tbsp full milk
3tsp organickoekkruiden spices
½ tspbaking powder
Zest of half an orange

For the top:

1 egg white, beaten
3tsplight brown caster sugar
2tbspflaked almonds

One of my favourite Christmas cookies are spekulatius biscuits, they are also known asspeculaasor speculoos. I remember we always used to get a special parcel fromLebkuchen Schmidtin Nürmberg from my Granny. In amongst all the beautiful tins and lebkuchen would be a few packs of their spekulatius cookies. I loved their different shapes.

They are remarkably simple to make and the spice mix brings on those classic clove heavyaromas of the festive season.

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180C/ 350F. Grease a baking tray.
  2. Mix together all the ingredients in a mixer or blender until throughly mixed together. Shape the dough into a ball and cover the dough ball withclingfilm and set aside for1 hour in a cool place.
  3. Floura work surface and press thedough into an even, flat layer. Using a cutter, cut shapes from the dough and place on the greased baking tray.
  4. Brush with the egg white, thensprinkle withlight brown caster sugar and flaked almonds on top of each speculaas biscuit.
  5. Bake for 14-18 minutes and thebiscuits are turning a slightly darker shade of brown. Remove from the baking sheet and allow to cool on a cooling rack.

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