Gevuld Speculaas Recipes

Steps:

• Speculaas spices Mix together - this makes enough spices for 2 cakes, but only going to use half of this for one recipe. Almond paste for two recipes Place into a food processor, grind almonds very fine, add sugar, eggs, lemon zest and almond extract. Pulse until it forms a ball. Put into a jar or container and place in the freezer, keeps a while (don't know how long, usually doesn't last that long). Speculaas dough Mix into one small ball of dough. In spring form, divide dough in half. Roll or smooth in bottom of spring form. Use ½ of almond paste mix for next layer. Then top layer gets rest of dough and cover till you see no more almond paste. Then take 2 tablespoons sugar, some almond extract and little water and mix till you have a thick paste. Brush this over the top to cover. Then add slivered almonds to decorate (optional). Preheat oven to 375 and bake for 20 minutes. Need to watch so doesn't burn. If you want to make 2 Gevulde Speculaas's, then just double dough mix. Enjoy!

Steps:

• Preheat the oven up to 150° Celcius. Put the flour, the speculaaskruiden, the sugar, the butter (in small pieces) and the milk in a bowl and knead until you have a dough. At this point you could choose to roll the dough into some foil and put it into the refrigerator to let it soak up all the herbs, but I have to confess I mostly am too impatient for that, so I skip that step. Now you split the dough in two equal parts. The first part you roll onto a greased oven plate in whatever shape you want, could be a square, a heart.. Smear the almond paste on top of the dough, but leave some space at the edges. Then add the second part of the dough on top of this and close the sides, enclosing the almond paste. Now you can decorate with the sliced almons and cover with the egg yolk. Put it into the oven and bake the speculaas for about 30-45 minutes (check if it's golden brown). Then get it out of the oven and make sure it cools off and gets a bit harder before you start cutting it (but not too long, because it's delicious when it's still warm :-)) Bon appetit!