Speculaas Biscuits
Ingredients
- 225 g Plain Flour
- 115 g Unsalted Butter room temperature
- 130 g Soft brown sugar
- 7 g Baking powder
- 3 g Baking soda
- 2 Tbsp buttermilk or yoghurt
- 7 g Speculaas spices
- few pinches Salt
Speculaas Spice Mix makes enough for 2-3 recipes of speculaas
- 6.5 g cinnamon
- 2 g ground cloves
- 2 g aniseed powder or ground anise star
- 1.5 g grated nutmeg
- 1 g ground white pepper
- 1 g ginger powder
- ½ g cardamom powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 165ºC (conventional oven)/160ºC fan oven
- Sift the flour with the baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices.
- Add the butter to the sugar and combine. Then add the buttermilk/yoghurt and beat until smooth.
- Add the flour mixture and quickly knead into a ball.
- Tip the dough on to worksurface. Form a ball
- Flatten the ball into a disc shape, cover and rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes - or even over night if you want make it in advance. This allows the spice flavours to develop.
- Roll the dough thinly (about 3-4mm) and press out the biscuits with a cutter. The windmill cutter is traditional but you can use what you have available.
- Bake in the oven for about 11 minutes, depending on your oven. Take them out and leave the speculaas on the baking tray for a few minutes to firm up. Transfer them to cool on a rack.
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