Spekulatius Spiced German Christmas Cookies
- 4 cups all-purpose flour sifted
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 grams baking ammonia
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 vanilla sugar pack
- 2 eggs
- 11/16 cup almond ground
- 1 teaspoon cardamom ground
- 1 teaspoon cloves ground
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon ground
- 7/8 cup butter chilled
- In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder and ammonia. Make an indent in the middle and add eggs, sugar, spices and extract, and combine all into a thick dough. Cut in the cold butter and together with the ground almonds and knead it well to form a smooth dough. If the dough is still sticky, then wrap and rest it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F. Roll out the dough into 3mm thick circle and cut out the cookies with favourite Christmas cookie cutters. Place them onto greased baking sheet and bake until starting to brown, about 10 minutes. When cool, store cookies in an air-tight container. Decorate the cookies with sugar icings as desired.
allpurpose, baking powder, baking ammonia, sugar, vanilla sugar pack, eggs, almond ground, cardamom ground, cloves ground, cinnamon ground, butter
Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Spekulatius-Spiced-German-Christmas-Cookies-1674019 (may not work)