Spekulatius

Ingredients for Spekulatius

Instructions for Spekulatius

To prepare the Spekulatius recipe, please follow these instructions:

Butter and sugar is stirred skumagtig. Eggs, spices and other ingredients are added, the dough is kneaded. The dough is made cold over night.

Next day deploying the 4 mm thick, small pieces are pressed in gathering worms and bake at low heat.

Tips:
In the Christmas season eating mainly in Germany and the Netherlands a kind cookies called spekulatius.

A legend tells that biskob Nikolaus rescued his hometown of famine. He persuaded some merchants to give the city something flour for bread. When traders sailed further they discovered that the bags were still full of flour, they were so grateful that they, when they came home to the Netherlands produced a special pastries, among other things. of the spices, which they had picked up in Turkey.

The first spekulatius envisioned Sinter Klaas in full regalia, but now you can get all sorts of shapes.

Speculatiusformene is made of wood and one can often see them hang for decoration in the kitchen areas year round, when they are not used.

Apart from these spekulatiuskager, which comes in many types, strains our own Brown cakes and gingerbread, I imagine, since it is only eaten cakes for Christmas and contain spices from "the alien world".

The small speculatius cookies is with holes in, so they can be hung on the Christmas tree. Dutch speculatius (square Brown cakes) can now be purchased in almost all supermarkets in Denmark.