Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten)
Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten)

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, tasty dutch crunchy spiced cookies (kruidnoten). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Traditional Kruidnoten Cookies – Dutch Ginger Nuts. 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. The Dutch Cookies Spice mix, is a typical mix you can find in most of Dutch supermarkets.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have tasty dutch crunchy spiced cookies (kruidnoten) using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten):
  1. Make ready 125 g Self Raising Flour(you can substitute 120g plain flour with 5g baking powder)
  2. Make ready 65 g brown sugar
  3. Make ready 50 g cold unsalted butter (cut in cubes)
  4. Prepare 1 tbs pumpkin spice
  5. Get 60 ml cold milk
  6. Get Pinch salt

Knead a bit more with your hands. This is a recipe for traditional Dutch Pepernoten (mini spiced cookies) which are traditionally eaten in the Traditionally the pepernoten are actually more like taai taai (chewy aniseed-flavored cookies) and the kruidnoten are little round crunchy biscuits which are flavoured with a Dutch Spice Mix. Pepernoten (pepper nuts) and Kruidnoten (spice nuts) are very different from each other: pepernoten are the chewy, taai-taai-esque square pieces of brick that break your teeth, kruidnoten are the round, crunchy peppery speculaas-type cookies that Zwarte Piet throws around. Kruidnoten are popular Dutch cookies consisting of flour, sugar, butter, and milk.

Steps to make Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten):
  1. Preheat the oven at 170oC. Prepare a baking tray with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. 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.
  3. Bake for 15- 20 minutes. Leave to cool & enjoy!

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. Yum, these Pepernoten are tiny spiced cookies. Perfect for the holidays because of the ginger, cinnamon and cardamom! Chocolate letters are my favorite, but what's a chocolate letter without pepernoten?

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