Speculaas (dutch Spiced Biscuit)

Total Time: 3 hrs 45 mins Preparation Time: 3 hrs Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 200 g self raising flour
• 125 g soft brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons allspice
• 1 pinch salt
• 150 g chilled butter
• 1 tablespoon milk

Recipe

• 1 combine the cake flour, brown sugar, all spice and salt.
• 2 cut butter into pieces and mix into the flour in a food processor.
• 3 add milk and you should now have a firm dough ball.
• 4 wrap the dough in clingfilm and allow to rest in a cool place for atleast 2 hours, but preferably for a day to draw out the spice flavour.
• 5 preheat the oven to 175 degrees celcius, roll out the dough into a rectangle about 1cm thick.
• 6 place this onto a lined baking tray and bake the spiced biscuit in the oven for about 30 minutes until done.
• 7 cool the biscuit on a wire rack.
• 8 to serve: break the biscuit into pieces and serve with warm chocolate milk.