Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten). Traditional Kruidnoten Cookies -- Dutch Ginger Nuts. The Dutch Cookies Spice mix, is a typical mix you can find in most of Dutch supermarkets. And there you have it, extremely tasty Spice Nuts!

Mix flour, baking powder and spices. Knead a bit more with your hands. This is a recipe for traditional Dutch Pepernoten (mini spiced cookies) which are traditionally eaten in the Traditionally the pepernoten are actually more like taai taai (chewy aniseed-flavored cookies) and the kruidnoten are little round crunchy biscuits which are flavoured with a Dutch Spice Mix. You can cook Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten) using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten)

1. Prepare 125 g of Self Raising Flour(you can substitute 120g plain flour with 5g baking powder).
2. It's 65 g of brown sugar.
3. You need 50 g of cold unsalted butter (cut in cubes).
4. You need 1 tbs of pumpkin spice.
5. It's 60 ml of cold milk.
6. You need Pinch of salt.

Today I am showing you how to make healthy kruidnoten. These are small Dutch cookies we eat in the Netherlands during a holiday called Sinterklaas. They are heavily spiced with a variety of ingredients such as ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, white pepper, cloves, and nutmeg. The cookies are traditionally baked in a round shape, unlike pepernoten, which are shaped.

Tasty Dutch Crunchy Spiced Cookies (Kruidnoten) instructions

1. Preheat the oven at 170oC. Prepare a baking tray with parchment paper and set aside..
2. Mix dried ingredients: flour, pumpkin spice, salt, sugar. Add butter & using your fingers, make a crumbly dough. Make a hole in the middle of the flour, add milk. Quickly knead the crumble into a pliable dough and form into a ball. Place the balls on your prepared baking tray..
3. Bake for 15- 20 minutes. Leave to cool & enjoy!.

Pepernoten (pepper nuts) and Kruidnoten (spice nuts) are very different from each other: pepernoten are the chewy, taai-taai-esque square pieces of brick that break your teeth, kruidnoten are the round, crunchy peppery speculaas-type cookies that Zwarte Piet throws around. Yum, these Pepernoten are tiny spiced cookies. Perfect for the holidays because of the ginger, cinnamon and cardamom! Chocolate letters are my favorite, but what's a chocolate letter without pepernoten? Well actually they are called 'kruidnoten' but at home we would always call them.