Kruidnoten Recipe

You know it is nearly Sinterklaas when the supermarkets and shops begin to fill up with chocolate letters, marzipan pigs and kruidnoten!

If you love kruidnoten, then you can buy them by the bag full, in a variety of flavours. This year I even saw mega 5kg sacks at Albert Heijn!

But the recipe for making kruidnoten is super easy! Just 5 ingredients and 30 mintues later and you will have a house smelling of freshly baked kruidnoten, and a bag full to eat.

Ingredients

150 g Butter (Boter)
125 g Dark caster sugar (Donkere basterdsuiker)
10 g Gingerbread spices (Koek en speculaas kruidenmix) + a pinch of salt if your spice mix doesn’t contain any
250 g Self-rising flour (Zelfrijzend bakmeel)
4 tbsp Milk (Melk)

Directions

Preheat the oven to 160 °C

Knead the butter, sugar, gingerbread spices and self-rising flour together.

Gradually add the milk to the mixture, stirring each time, so that it becomes a nice and smooth dough.

Make long rolls (or ‘sausages’) with the dough. Cut the dough up into walnut sized pieces and shape into small balls.

Line a baking sheet with baking paper and place the dough balls onto the baking sheet, pressing them down a little.

Cook in the oven for about 15 minutes, until tender and light brown.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool before devouring. If you have some left, store in an air tight container.