Title: Spekulatius By Brigitte Sealing
Categories: Cookie
Yield: 20 Servings
| 18 | oz | Flour |
| 2 | ts | Baking Powder |
| 9 | oz | Sugar |
| 1 | ts | Vanilla |
| 1/2 | ts | Cardamom ground |
| 1/2 | ts | Cloves,ground |
| 1 | ts | Cinnamon |
| 2 | dr | Almond Oil |
| 2 | | Eggs |
| 7 | oz | Butter |
| 4 | oz | Ground Almonds |
Mix the flour and baking powder together in a bowl;make a well in the
middle and put in the egg,sugar and spices and slowly work it all into a
thick dough.Cut the cold butter into pieces and together with the ground
almonds put on top of dough,cover all with a little more flour and knead it
good to a smooth dough fastly. If the dough is to sticky cool it a liitle
in the refridgerator. Roll out the dough nice and thin and cut out with
christmas cookiecutters. Grease a cookiesheet and put the cookies on. Bake
at 400 degrees F on the top slot in the oven for about 15 minutes. This is
too, out of my grandmas cookbook and the stores sell them in fancy people
shapes decorated with thinly sliced almonds.Store well too.