Pepernoten AKA marble-size gingerbread cookies
Crunchy marble size cookies spiced with gingerbread spice or Dutch speculaas spice. Delicious little flavor bombs!
Ingredients
- 250 gr white whole wheat flour (you can sub regular whole wheat flour or white spelt flour or 50/50 whole wheat flour and all purpose flour)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 100 gr coconut sugar (or sub brown sugar)
- 2 tbsp speculaas spice* (or sub gingerbread spice*)
- ½ tsp fine grain sea salt
- 2-4 tbsp unsweetened almond milk (or sub other type of milk)
- 150 gr coconut oil (melted if not already)(or sub (vegan) butter)
For chocolate dipped cookies (optional):
- 1 cup dark chocolate (chopped)
Instructions
- Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl. Mix all wet ingredients in another bowl (start with 2 tbsp of milk). Now mix the wet and dry mixes by adding the wet ingredients to the bowl with the dry ingredients and knead it with your hands. Add another tbsp of milk if the dough is too dry. It should be a little sticky.
- Refrigerate the dough for 15-30 minutes so the next step will be easier to do. You can skip this step, but I wouldn't recommend it.
- Preheat the oven to 350F/175C
- Turn the dough into thumb size cookies and place them on a parchment paper lined baking tray. You can leave them round, but traditionally they are pressed down a bit.
- Bake them for 15-20 minutes. Keep an eye on them though! You don't want them to burn. They will crisp up even more when cooling down. So don't leave them in the oven thinking they aren't firm enough yet!
- While the pepernoten are cooling off a bit, melt some dark chocolate in a double boiler. Now dip the pepernoten in the chocolate and place them on a parchment lined baking tray.
- Let them harden for 10-15 minutes and they are ready to eat! If you live in a hot climate like us, you probably have to place the tray in the freezer for a bit. I also keep leftovers in the freezer or fridge in a glass container.
Notes
* my 3 holiday spice mixes
Nutritional information:
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