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Belgian Spice Cookies (Speculoos)
Speculoos are Belgian spice cookies with a light, airy crispness. Creaming the butter and sugar until light and fluffy also is important, so make sure the butter is softened to cool room temperature, then beat in the stand mixer for the full 5 minutes. The dough can be cut in any shape, but the baking time may need to be adjusted if the cookies are much smaller or larger than 2 inches.
6
Dozen Cookies
Tip
Don’t use light corn syrup in place of dark; light corn syrup lacks the caramel notes that mimics the flavor of the type of brown sugar (made from beets) traditionally used to make speculoos.
1 hour
plus cooling
Ingredients
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¾
teaspoon ground cinnamon
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¾
teaspoon ground coriander
Directions
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01Heat the oven to 350°F with a rack in the middle position. Line 2 baking sheets with kitchen parchment. In a small bowl, stir together the cinnamon, coriander and allspice. Measure 1 teaspoon of the mixture into another small bowl, then whisk the white sugar into it and set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together the cake flour, baking soda, cloves and the remaining spice mixture.
Reviews
December 14, 2025
Perfect for dipping in coffee
These little cookies are delicious and it makes a big batch. I baked mine for closer to 12 minutes, 16 makes them a little too brown for my taste.
December 20, 2023
Watch bake time! Following instruction burned my first batch
Overall, the recipe taste great. But my first batch I took to 16 minutes and they were burned on the bottom (single pan on middle rack, no baking errors on my end) I even turned them half way as instructed. My final 2 batches I ran for 12 minutes and got good results. A great alternative to holiday ginger cookies.
November 15, 2023
Caden M.
I thought these cookies had a wonderful flavor to them. The crunchyness of them is splendid to.
Hi Linda -
In terms of recipe success, you can probably make that substitution without any issues. However, the flavor will be different. Dark corn syrup has a more delicate, caramel flavor, whereas molasses is more smoky and bitter. I'm sure the cookies would still taste good, just different than our original.
Best,
The Milk Street Team
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Great flavor and very crisp. The only issue I had was that the cookies spread and lost definition.