Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten). Great recipe for Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten). It celebrates the legend of Saint Nicholas, bringer of gifts. "Santa Claus" is actually derived from the Dutch. Prepare a baking tray with parchment paper and set aside. Mix dried ingredients: flour, pumpkin spice, salt, sugar. Add butter & using your fingers, make a crumbly dough.
Sinterklaas is an old man with a long white beard and a strange red hat and brings all childeren a present.
This traditional Dutch pepernoten (or kruidnoten) recipe makes a whole tray of delicious mini spiced cookies.
They are fun to cook with the kids and are so yummy that they never tend to last for long.
You can have Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten) using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten)
- Prepare 125 g of Self Raising Flour(you can substitute 120g plain flour with 5g baking powder).
- It's 65 g of brown sugar.
- You need 50 g of cold unsalted butter (cut in cubes).
- It's 1 tbs of pumpkin spice.
- It's 60 ml of cold milk.
- Prepare Pinch of salt.
Headily spiced with ginger, cinnamon, white pepper, cardamom, cloves, and nutmeg, with a hint of molasses, the origin of these traditional treats is intricately linked to the history of the Netherlands. Kruidnoten are popular Dutch cookies consisting of flour, sugar, butter, and milk. They are heavily spiced with a variety of ingredients such as ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, white pepper, cloves, and nutmeg. The cookies are traditionally baked in a round shape, unlike pepernoten, which are shaped into squares.
Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten) step by step
- Preheat the oven at 170oC. Prepare a baking tray with parchment paper and set aside..
- Mix dried ingredients: flour, pumpkin spice, salt, sugar. Add butter & using your fingers, make a crumbly dough. Make a hole in the middle of the flour, add milk. Quickly knead the crumble into a pliable dough and form into a ball. Place the balls on your prepared baking tray..
- Bake for 15- 20 minutes. Leave to cool & enjoy!.
In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, spices, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Kruidnoten taste great dipped in chocolate as well. Check out my recipe to make your own Speculaas Spice Mix / Dutch cookie spice mix (speculaaskruiden / koekkruiden). Pumpkin Pie spice mix can also be used instead of Speculaas Spice Mix / Dutch cookie spice mix (speculaaskruiden / koekkruiden).