Speculoo Cookies

Speculoos: a famous french cookie made with cinnamon and allspice
Cookies are incredibly easy and delicious and can easily mold to the ingredients you have on hand.

For this recipe, there were a few challenges...I could not find allspice, powdered cinnamon or cloves.  I did find cinnamon sticks and whole cloves.  To use these spices i had to improvise.   I ended up grating the cinnamon with a cheese grater and made a tea with the cloves by boiling them in water.  The cookies turned out perfect with a bit of clove and the best cinnamon I have ever tasted. If you are making this abroad and do not have a cup measure, i just used a small bowl.  Be sure not to pack the brown sugar too tightly into the cup  The ratios still work for this recipe.

1/3 c butter
2 1/2 c flour
1 eggs
1 1/2 c brown sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp clove tea (boil water with cloves and let steep for 5 min)
1 tsp bicarbonate (baking soda)
1/4 tsp salt (2 pinches)
1 tsp vanilla

tsp= teaspoon

Preheat oven to 180 degree celsius/350 degree farenheit
Mix flour, spices, salt, bicarbonate in a bowl.
In a separate bowl beat sugar, eggs, butter, and vanilla until creamy, then add the dry ingredients.
Let sit in fridge until dough is firm and make into round balls.  Cook for 8-12 minutes.  It is very easy to cook these too long and they become very crunchy.  Keep a close eye on them in the oven.  When the edges are brown and they looked mostly cook take them out of the oven.