Name: Spicy Almond-Studded Squares (Jan Hagel)
Yield: About thirty-five 2-inch cookies
Cuisine: Dutch
Ingredients: 12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, chilled and cut into 12 pieces; ¼ cup sugar; 2¼ cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup (about 4 ounces) sliced blanched almonds; Water for brushing the dough; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; ½ teaspoon baking powder; ½ cup sugar

Preparation info

About
thirty-five
2 inch cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Baker's Tour

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2005

About

Any resemblance between these cookies and the American industrially-made version is purely coincidental. This is a real Dutch recipe for delicious, easy-to-prepare cookies. In the Netherlands, one of these arrives on the saucer when you order a cup of coffee in a café.

Ingredients

Dough

2¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½

Method

Set a rack in the middle level of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees.
Place the dry ingredients into the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade and pulse several times to mix. Add the butter and pulse repeatedly until the mixture is redu