But, here we go, the first badge of cookies, quite a selection of quickly whipped up little critters that will disappear in no time, but remind me on how easy it is to make these things, if you're simpleminded like I am.. :)
There they are:
- chocolate cookies ("Schokoladen Prasselplaetzchen"), some covered in hazelnuts, some in sugar
The recipe is from a Chocolate cookbook from teh Bechtermuenz Verlag: melt 200g dark chocolate with 90g butter, add 115g sugar and vanilla, beat in 3 eggs, and then add 200 g flour with 1/2 tea spoon baking powder, and a little salt. They ask for 25 cocoa powder as well, which I did not add. Let the dough sit cold for a bit before you form it into little balls, roll them in ground hazelnuts, or powder sugar, and then bake them for 10-15 minutes at 160 deg C (320 deg F).
- hazelnut macaroons
I had some leftover eggwhite, added sugar and hazelnuts, and baked it at 400 deg F for about 10 minutes.
- coconut cookies
These are not quite macaroons because there's egg yolk in them - that's why they are so yellow. Temperature is about the same as for the hazelnut macaroons.
- Spekulatius cookies
These are based on flour, baking powder, sugar, egg, a little heavy cream, and, spekulatius spice, which contains cinnamon, orange and lemon peel, cardamom, cloves, coriander and nutmeg.
Spekulatius is actually a traditional central european christmas cookie, which is entirely different from what I made here - I just threw somewhat randomly things together that result in something with a good taste and a cookie appearance, and coincidentally I had Spekulatius spice to add to the mix :-)
But here's how real Spekulatius looks like:
Check out this recipe for Spekulatius (supposedly belgian, but they are very similar in Germany), a little more work than I was willing to put in today.. but well worth it!
Happy Nikolaus-Day!
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