Even though I don't celebrate Sint Nicolaas anymore like when I was younger. In the Netherlans, gingerbread buttons are around this time the best sweets. this year I had the realisation that is was already a few years ago I did make them my own.
Quantity
Around 50 gingerbread buttons
Ingredients
Spicemix
for around 9tsp
5.5 tsp ground cinamon (from 2 sticks cinamonsticks)
20 cloves
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger
3 green cardemons
15 white pepper
5 coriander seeds
1/8 tsp anis seeds
2/4 tsp mace
5 fennel seeds
gingerbread buttons
250 grams weat flower
125 grams dark brown caster sugar
2 tsp baking powder
4 tsp spice mix (see above)
100 grams buter (cold)
6 tbsp milk
Materials
spice grinder
oven
Preparation
Spice mixtrure, also know as gingerbread spices or biscuit spices. For this mixture most of the spices are whole, instead of grind to get a fuller taste, take the amound of spices not to strickt, not every clove or cardamon is as big as other one. Brake the cinamon in smaler peaces before you grind them (after grinding I mesuered the amound) put them in a thiny bowl. Grind the rest of the spices in the spice grinder in one to two rounds until everything if tinly grinded.
Gingerbread buttons. Turn the oven on 170-175 degrees Celcius. Mix the weat flower, dark brown caster sugar, baking powder, and spice mix in a big bowl. Mix everyting well and add the butter and milk undil everyting is combined. It takes a while before it is a well combined mass. make thiny balls of around 10 grams. Put them on a baking tray, leave enough space inbetween. Put them in the oven for 25 minutes.
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