Review of St Nicolas Speculaas - Devil of a Cookbook Pge 144

[Wonder]

We had these made for us by a generous consultant at the Festive cooking class a few days ago and just had to make some.

I found the dough was very soft and needed to go in the fridge before it could be rolled out. It seemed very strange to heat the mixture once you added the butter, as it had the effect of melting the butter almost fully and making the mixture very soft. The taste is great and the recipe makes a lot, I've only cooked half and there were 45 biscuits. They are lovely and crunchy, full of flavour and made the house smell great. Mine only needed to cook for 10 mins although that could be my oven as it runs hot, you can see in the photo some are a little overcooked. I'm planning on decorating some with royal icing and will post a photo of when I get that done.


I think I'll try the recipe that is already on the forum and see if they are much different.

[Halex]

Nice, love the eat me stamp

[teagg]

Wow. They look good enough for me to change my mind about not working with butter in an Aussie summer!!!
Where - please tell - did you get your lovely cookie stamps from??? That eat me one is super!!!
Gx

[Halex]

I just saw on the shopping thread Wonder bought eat me at Typo

Guess where I am going today

[Wonder]

As Hally says the eat me one is from Typo the others were part of a three pack of Anna Gare stamps from Matchbox. Personally after trying them I would go with the Typo ones as it gave a better result for me. The stamp is a little bigger than my bisucits with a sort of frill pattern around the outside, but I like the look of stamping and then cutting with the TMX cup thingy from the lid (can't remember the right name) which is slightly smaller than the stamp so it cut off the outside frill. JulieO gave some great instructions on using the stamps in a thread some time ago - sorry don't know how to link but if you search for "Cookie Stamp" it should come up.

[courton]

The "eat me" ones look spectacular!

[judydawn]

Is this the information Julie gave Wonder

[Wonder]

http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=10069.0

Judy, these are the instructions I used. You get a much better stamp if the dough has been rolled and rested in the fridge for a little while before stamping.

In case the link doesn't work it's JulieO's Rosemary & Walnut Shortbreads - with photo.

[judydawn]

Ah yes, that's much better Wonder.  Julie's biscuits looks super.

[obbie]

They look great

[maddy]

I too popped my dough in fridge Wonder, I wrote a review on them in the cookbook section...I might make mention of that there.
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=14481.msg327587#msg327587