Friese Dumkes - Frisian hazelnut aniseed cookies

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Friese Dumkes - Frisian hazelnut aniseed cookies

These are famous cookies from Friesland, one of the Northern provinces of the Netherlands.

• 100 g ground hazelnuts
  
• 150 g softened butter
  
• 125 g soft brown sugar
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 250 g flour
  
• 1 T aniseed
  
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger
  
• pinch of salt
  

Preheat the oven to 150 C / 300 F.

Mix together the butter and sugar until creamy. Add the eggs and mix well. Add the flour and mix for a couple of minutes.

Add the spices, salt and hazelnuts and blend well.

Roll out the dough on a well floured worksurface to a thickness of 1 cm.

Cut into strips of 2 x 4 cm.

Put strips on a baking sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes (they should not brown too much).

Immediately after taking them out of the oven, you should make an indentation into each cookie with your thumb (hence the name - dumke meaning 'little thumb')

However, I find this a rather painful exercise because the cookies just out of the oven are hot!

So if you are not aiming for complete authenticity, just omit this step, thay will taste great anyway.

let them cool on a wire rack.

from the Dutch Cooking thread

Keywords: Snack, Cookie

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