
What are pepernoten you may ask. The translation for pepernoten would be pepper nuts. They're little, round, crisp cookies that are full of spices; cinnamon, white pepper, ginger and cloves just to name a few. They're absolutely my favorite thing to eat this time of year! And it's so great that I can make them myself now because I'm not much in the mood lately to go to the grocery store in this snowmageddon ... Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Pepernoten: adapted from AllRecipes.nl
Ingredients:
- 1 cup self-rising flour (125gr)
- ⅓ cup dark brown sugar (75gr)
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened (50gr)
- ¼ cup milk (25ml)
- 1 tablespoon speculaas spices*
- Pinch of salt
* Speculaas Spices:
- 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 325˚F.
- Put all the ingredients in a medium-sized bowl and beat with an electric mixer attached with the dough hooks until just combined, about 1 minute. Use your hands to knead the dough until everything is combined and has a dark brown color.
- Shape the dough into little balls by rolling it between your hands. Put the dough balls onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake the pepernoten for 15 minutes. Let cool to room temperature.

10 comments:
I love finding out about all the traditions from other countries. I'll need to remember this for next year, they look like a real treat.
Loving your unusal recipes, well unusal to me, usual to you I'm sure. I love Christmas spices and even make my own mix, I will be using it a lot in the coming weeks, maybe I should give these a try. x
Pepper nuts! *snicker*
These look lovely - I wonder how long they'd keep?
@alexandtheweb: They keep very, very long! Several weeks, but they'll never last that long I'm afraid ;-)
I loooove these!!
I made the same thing last year but covered in powdered sugar was delicious!
oh these look really delicious!
Mmmm! These look delicious. Our celebration was yesterday--St Nicolas--but I was at work!
Delicious looking, as always! Hope you're having a wonderful holiday season!
These sound like such wonderful little morsels. Happy holidays!
These bring back memories!! As a kid I went to German school on Saturdays, and there was a German bakery selling tasty goods there at recess! At Christmas she would have lots of biscuits and my Mum would buy up big, these were some of my favourites, perhaps I should give this recipe a try for nostalgia's sake!
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