SPICY SOETKOEKIES
All time 🇿🇦 favourite.
- 500 g soft butter
- 540 ml castor sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 5 ml vanilla extract
- 785 g cake flour
- 360 ml cornstarch
- 10 ml baking powder
- 5 ml salt
- 15 ml allspice ground
- 15 ml cinnamon ground
- 10 ml nutmeg ground
- 5 ml cloves ground
- 5 ml white pepper
Blend butter and castor sugar until creamed, light in colour and fluffy in texture. I use my Kenwood K-beater.
Add the eggs and vanilla and blend well. Sift the rest of ingredients together. Start adding the dry ingredients bit by bit to the creamed butter/sugar/egg and mix thoroughly until all the flour is incorporated.
Sprinkle a well disinfected and dry work surface with flour and roll the dough out in batches and press out shapes. Aim for approximately 5mm thickness.
Bake on baking paper on a sheet at oven preheated to 180°C for about 14 minutes.
I baked in my gas oven. Depending on the size you should get about 140 cookies.
Note:
Next time I will add more spices as we like it really spicy like Speculaas
Recipe and photos: Elsabie Templeton
