Speculaas Cookies

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Servings: 24
Yield: 24 servings

Description

This speculaas cookies recipe is flavored with a spice mix of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. They're a Dutch holiday cookie that tastes like gingerbread.

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
3 cups all-purpose flour

Directions

1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Dust two baking sheets with flour.
2 Beat brown sugar and butter together in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, cinnamon, baking powder, cloves, and nutmeg. Mix in flour, 1 cup at a time, until dough comes together.
3 Shape dough into cookies by hand or roll out and cut dough with cookie cutters; arrange on the prepared baking sheet.
4 Bake in the preheated oven until firm but not hard, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.