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Pepperkoek – The Dutch Spiced Cake #Daring Bakers

Ingredients

Gingerbread Spice Blend

  • 6 tablespoons 40 gm cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons 10 gm nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon 5 gm cloves
  • 1 teaspoon 5 gm cardamom
  • 1 teaspoon 5 gm ground white pepper
  • 1 teaspoon 5 gm ground coriander
  • 1 teaspoon 5 gm ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon 5 gm ground star anise
  • 1 teaspoon 5 gm ground mace

Pepperkoek

  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tablespoon 15 ml cane sugar syrup
  • 1 cup less 2 tablespoons 220 ml lukewarm water
  • 1 tablespoon 15 ml (½ oz) (15 gm) ground gingerbread spices
  • 1¼ cup 300 ml (8¾ oz) (250 gm) brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 2 cups 480 ml (8¾ oz) (250 gm) whole-wheat flour
  • 1¾ teaspoons 8 gm baking powder

Instructions

Gingerbread spice

  1. Grind all the whole spices and mix them in with the ground ones. If you have all the spices in their whole form, grind them all into a fine powder.

Peperkoek

  1. Preheat oven to moderate 350°F/ and line 12“x5“ baking tin with parchment paper.
  2. Put the egg, syrup, water, spices and brown sugar in a bowl. Whisk until everything is dissolved.
  3. Add the whole-wheat flour and the baking powder into the bowl and mix all the ingredients with a wooden spoon until the flour is wet. It doesn’t matter if there are some lumps left.
  4. Pour into the baking tin and bake in a preheated moderate 350°F 45 minutes. You may need more time to finish baking .. almost upto 70 minutes.
  5. To check if the sweet bread is done, stick a wooden skewer or toothpick into the middle. If it comes out clean the sweet bread is ready.
  6. Take the cake out of the oven, allow to cool in the pan for 5 minutes
  7. After the 5 minutes take the cake out of the pan and let the cake cool down to room temperature before serving.
  8. Serve with lot of butter and honey and a cup of coffee. Bliss.