Dutch speculaas a fine cookie can be filled with almond paste. It is a delicious winter treat. Bake this pastry and your house will smell fantastic. When wintertime is coming and days are getting cold filled speculaas is the cookie thats being served by coffee, tea or hot chocolate. You can make this treat easily by yourself. Its a stuffed spiced roll filled with almond paste en decorated with some blanched almond pieces.
Ingredients for Speculaas cookies
200 grams flour
10 grams of baking powder
20 grams of speculaasherbs (see the recipe below)
Little bit of salt
125 grams brown sugar
150 grams butter
2 spoons of milk
2 eggs
150 grams almond paste
Some blanched almonds for decoration
Speculaasspices for Dutch cookies.
The right mix consists of 9 grounded spices. The last three – ginger, cardemon and mace – are optional. The proportions are as follows:
- 30 grams cinnamon
- 10 grams nutmeg
- 10 grams cloves
- 5 grams white pepper
- 5 grams aniseed
- 5 grams corianderseed
- 5 grams of mace
- 3 grams ginger
- 2 grams of cardemon
Directions from my Dutch recipes book.
Mix flour, bakingpowder, spices (speculaaskruiden) and salt in bowl. Cut butter in smal parts, add milk and stir it to the flour mixture. Knead the mixture by hand to a nice dough, wrap the dough in plastic an leave it for 30 minutes.
Mix eggs with a tablespoon water, stir until smooth. Keep a smal amount of this mixture to finish the top of the speculaas.
Knead the egg-mixture with the almondpaste. Take the dough from the fridge. Unwrap the dough. Roll it out in the right shape. Grease the baking pan with some oil en put the dough in it. Put the almondpaste on top and cover up with a layer of dough. Make a decoration on top with almonds and spread over the topa thin layer of the eggmixture..
Bake the filled speculaas in a preheated oven for 45 minutes at 150ºC.
I hope you will enjoy this typically Dutch winter treat, it’s absolutely delicious.
