How to make your very own Speculaaspop
As promised in our Xmas mailout, here's the recipe to make your own speculaaspop.As you know, speculaas is a Dutch cookie made with almonds and special spices. So you know what you're aiming at, It's pretty close in flavour and texture to gingerbread. For non-imperialists, a teaspoon is equivalent to 5ml, and a tablespoon is 15ml.
Ingredients:
Here's how you do it:
Stir the softened butter with sugar and eggs until creamy. Add the ground almonds and spices, then beat in the flour until it's all nicely mixed up. Leave the resultant dough to rest in a cool place at least for one hour.
Now you have to roll it out and cut it into shapes prior to baking it, so preheat your oven now to 180°C.
Roll out about 1/8" thick, using flour if necessary, to prevent it sticking, then press the dough into your speculaas moulds. Didn't I mention? You need some carved wooden planks to make your cookies the size and form you want. You can always use the modern method if you like, and get busy with some festively shaped cookie cutters.
Once your cookies are cut or moulded, place the little fellas on a well buttered baking sheet, sprinkle them with thinly shaved almonds and brush lightly with milk. Now stick them in the oven and bake until crisp (anywhere from 15 minutes upwards). They're done when the the bottoms start turning dark. Remove from the oven and turn out onto wire cooling racks. You can store them in airtight tins for a few weeks.
Et voilà!
Eet smaakelijk!
Keywords: Speculaaspop,Christmas
Xmas boxin
Last week the Catalysts manned the annual Xmas mailout production line. Clients, contacts, friends and other members of our extended network should be receiving a tasty treat in the mail very shortly...Folding em up
Stacking em up
Filling em up
Straw!
Biscuits!
There's always one...
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Keywords: Speculaaspop,Christmas
