It simply isn't Christmas in Germany without flat, crunchy and richly spiced Spekulatius. Traditionally Spekulatius are moulded into shapes with a small Christmas design on the surface. Well, those wooden Spekulatius forms are not cheap at all, so I have decided to use X'mas-themed cookie cutters to make these cookies. You can garnish the cookies with colourful sugar icings, or with confectionery coatings made with couverture chocolate, to decorate your X'mas tree, or table center.
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- In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder and ammonia. Make an indent in the middle and add eggs, sugar, spices and extract, and combine all into a thick dough. Cut in the cold butter and together with the ground almonds and knead it well to form a smooth dough. If the dough is still sticky, then wrap and rest it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F. Roll out the dough into 3mm thick circle and cut out the cookies with favourite Christmas cookie cutters. Place them onto greased baking sheet and bake until starting to brown, about 10 minutes. When cool, store cookies in an air-tight container. Decorate the cookies with sugar icings as desired.
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wow....lovely Christmnas cookies! I must start mine too.
Oh wow!!! Gorgeous cookies..looks so delicious as well.
They are so pretty! These make really good gifts!
Angie...those are for me??? So lovely! I mail over my home address right away! haha.... No kidding! You've to send me a dozen.
Wow you have been so busy baking away!! they look really festive!!
Cute cookies, looks amazing..
lovely cookies..
Beautiful cookies and lovely presentation Angie!!
So adorable. I love spicy Christmas cookies. And they look so beautiful, too and are fun to make.
Gorgeous Cookies.
Fabulous cookies......
Wow, looks like you have already started your Christmas baking!
Angie, you turned me into a kid in a candy store with all those beautiful, colourful, festive cookies!
So pretty! What a wonderful gift these cookies would make.
Gosh, what lovely cookies. Great as X'mas gift.
What a great xmas gift, Angie!
What a beautiful cookies!! This will be great as Christmas gift.
Look so festive!! Very beautiful cookies! I think I'm going to try some soon ... Thanks for sharing!!
Cheers from Malaysia,
Pei-Lin
Wow looks like you have been cookie baking mood. They all look so so cute.
Me encantan esta galletas¡¡
Te han quedado deliciosas¡¡
besos¡
Ohh how cute can they look??!
My goodness, these are gorgeous!
Awesome cookies..wish I could grab a few :-)
Lovely little cookies, great for gifts!
I love how your cookies are decorated! Simply gorgeous!
Gorgeous cookies, so perfect for the holidays!
Love your packaging - it would make anyone feel special.
Lovely Christmas Cookies indeed!
awwwww, colorful, fancy, cute and fun-to-make cookie for xmas!
Very pretty...The name sounds fancy too:)
Looks like you have a few dozen for me! Those are so pretty...now I look at my sugar cookies and think how dull they are in comparison, LOL, oh well I admit I am not the baker you are!
Those are absolutely beautiful, Angie! Anybody on the receiving end of those cookies will feel incredibly special.
These look so fun. I want to decorate some too!
Hey! Arent't they cute? they are beautifully decorated! How patient! I don't think I'd have the "courage" to do them.
Definitely, Xmas in the air...
xxx
Carmen
Such gorgeous looking cookies....
I love spekulatius. They bring back childhood memories! :) Yours are beautiful!
Wow.. too pretty to eat!!
wow they're so colorful
A smile from SJ =)
Angie..the cookies are colorful and I know they will taste great too! Thanks for sharing...time to bake some for the coming festive :)
These are so pretty Angie! I love the way you decorated them. I bet they are really yummy too!
Oh Angie they look so fun. looks like u had a good time making them :))
Your cookies are so cute! You did such a great job decorating them!
Lovely cookies,looks so good
They are so pretty! Get me all excited about Christmas :)
I did not realize that speculaas had cardamom in them! Now I definitely want to try them, especially since I have a few of these wooden molds. It looks like it was a lot of fun to decorate!
They beautiful and very impressive. I haven't even started my Christmas goodies yet.
Angie, these cookies are beautiful! So creative! I'm sure they taste amazing too!
So adorable I want to eat them right up!
Those look beautiful. Do these cookies/biscuits taste the same as those Dutch cookies? I think they're called speculaas.
every one of them looks so perfect for ME!
Look at those wonderful colours of these!!! Who are the lucky ppl to receive them?
:-)) You guys have made my day! Thanks a lot for your replies and encouragement!
@ KitchenMasochist: I think they are the same cookies with the different spelling.
oh wow amazing cookies Angie love them
Wow .. spicy cookies indeed... beautiful!
These are beautiful cookies! Great for gifts!
wow, what a lovely cookies, wish you a merry christmas
those are great-looking cookies! Can I have some?
These are the cookies my grandfather always had at christmas! Wonderful memories and a beautiful cookie.
Your cookies are so pretty! I love all the colors of the decorations, and the spices in the dough sound delicious.
To me Christmas isn't Christmas without the decorated cookies. My friend, you are full of spirit! These are just beautiful.
You are right, in Germany, it just would not be Christmas without such delicious cookies. They are beautiful. I know the effort and time that you must of spent preparing these wonderful cookies, just makes them more lovely.
Happy Holidays to you and your family.
They are gorgeous.
Please send a few dozen this way. Looks great!
I have only tried the Dutch Version, wonder if the German version is very similar. Your ones are just gorgeous!
These are so beautiful, you're so talented!
Wow! They look gorgeous.
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Wow those Christmas cookies look colorful with different shapes.I was looking for something besides our usual cookies and I find it here.I will make this cookies for this Christmas.Thank you..
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