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I think the correct title is "Spekulatios: the entry should have put a month ago, which are the days that have passed since Anna and Montse came home to prepare. The spicy biscuits spekulatios are traditionally eaten at Christmas in some Central European countries. Here you have a little more information.

Every Monday we go to a patchwork shop and one of those evenings came the issue of cookies spekulatios and traditional patterns. Montse who lived in Germany offered to browse and buy online and well start with the preparations and search for recipes.

Finally, on December 18th at 17:00 we started our work, although on the wrong foot .... Poor Anna had fallen in the morning and had a sprained ankle. But not be intimidated, just the opposite, that came here to help in what could be .... and especially in "Taste" as he could.

The resulting recipe is adapted from several recipes that are the result of which we liked. They taste great and have decided that, although traditionally are drawn at Christmas, this year will surely on the odd occasion.

These are the typical mold. The roller is very easy to use and cookies are perfect. The individual molds for my taste, are a bit more cumbersome. Should have done photography before but what was a bit on the fly, because we were improvising.

Ingredients for about 40 to 50 cookies:

• 500 gr.
• flour 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2oo gr. butter at room temperature
• 100 gr.
• normal blood sugar 100 gr.
• Moscovado sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon
• ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground cloves 1 pinch
• nutmeg 2 pinches of ground cardamom seeds in mortar
• 1 pinch ground ginger
  

Montse Here you have to cut the cookies. At the end we were better to stretch the dough on lightly floured parchment paper directly on the table to work. At first it cost us to manipulate the mass because we had never worked with this type of roller engraving, but the last two we had already caught the hang.

Preparation:

Beat sugar with eggs, add the butter and continue beating until creamy. Sift flour with baking powder and add to the cream with the spices. Knead into a ball. Cover with paper film and allowed to stand, better if for a day, so that the spices permeate the dough. In our case it was just a little bit but the taste was delicious. When you have rested

out thinly on a floured bench or, as in our case, on lightly floured parchment paper to a thickness of about 5 mm. Pass the scenery roll several times to form or cut with cookie cutters. Put on plate and bake in preheated oven at 180-190 for about 8-10 minutes until golden.

Here Anna cleaning the molds and acting as a secretary reading, collecting and pointing our version of the recipe.

And this was the end result: A fantastic afternoon sharing joy, cheerfulness, complicity and, of course, cookies! I hope you feel encouraged to do them because they are delicious.

Carpe Diem!