It’s like a little apple pie combined with caramel cheesecake. With this recipe, you can easily make delicious no bake apple caramel cheesecakes dessert.

How to make individual no bake cheesecakes?

Start with small glasses or glass jars. These are really cute. You build the dessert in layers, starting by crushed cookies. Top that with your cheesecake mixture and finish it with your topping. Warm caramelized apple for this recipe. It’s really easy to make small one person cheesecakes as you can see!

You can prepare this cheesecake dessert very well, which I think is perfect. Put the prepared dessert in the refrigerator and take it out when needed.

However, you can also prepare the base (cookie + cheesecake layer), and make the apple mixture only just before you want to serve the dessert. This way, you have little cheesecakes with warm apples as a topping. Delicious!

In the last case, you can prepare the apple layer as well. Add a little lemon juice to keep the apple pieces fresh and store them in the refrigerator until you need them. I made them this way for Christmas and it worked perfect.

Apple caramel cheesecake recipe

For this dessert, I decided to first heat the apple in a pan and caramelize it with some sugar. Warm apple pieces work incredibly well in a dessert. In this case, I combined it with whipped cream, cookies and cream cheese.

For the cookies, I chose Bastogne cookies, which are a kind of spice cookies. It’s hard to find this particular cookie outside The Netherlands and a few other European countries, but any spice cookie will do. Biscoff cookies are a good alternative for example.

More individual desserts

I love making desserts in individual portions, here are some more delicious dessert recipes that you can serve in small glass jars:

• 3 ingredient chocolate mousse (without egg)
• vanilla crème brûlée
• fresh berry panna cotta

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No bake apple caramel cheesecakes desserts

These individual no bake cheesecakes are perfect as a dessert. Extra delicious with a warm apple topping.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time5 minutes mins

Total Time20 minutes mins

Servings: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 125 ml whipping cream
• 50 grams of fine granulated sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 100 grams of cream cheese
• 8 Bastogne cookies or other spice cookies
• 2 apples
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 tbsp granulated sugar
• some small caramel pieces/bits

Instructions

• Beat whipping cream with the 50 grams of sugar until stiff. In another bowl, mix vanilla extract and cream cheese until creamy. Add the whipped cream and mix on a low setting until evenly combined.
• Crumble the cookies, either by hand or a food processor. The crumbs may still be somewhat chunky.
• Divide the cookie crumbs among the glasses, followed by the cream cheese mixture.
• Peel the apples, remove the core and cut into cubes. Put these diced apples together with cinnamon and 2 tbsp sugar in a pan and heat until caramelized. Stir the mixture frequently.
• Divide the apple mixture among the glasses. To finish, sprinkle some caramel pieces on top.

For years I have been baking the most delicious homemade chocolate chip cookies with this easy recipe. With all of my baking tips in this chocolate chip cookie recipe, you can bake them at home too!

Chocolate chip cookies recipe

This recipe is my basic recipe for chocolate chip cookies. I have made all kinds of variations on this recipe, but a good starter recipe is essential. To be honest, this is also the cookie recipe I make the most.

I like to tell you more about this recipe, the ingredients and of course I also give baking tips and answer frequently asked questions about these chocolate chip cookies.

Chocolate chip cookie ingredients

My recipe for homemade chocolate chip cookies contains 8 ingredients. If you’re lucky, you’ll have all the ingrediënts in stock and can bake these cookies right away.

• Butter. I like to use unsalted butter.
• Brown sugar. This variety of sugar give the cookies the best taste and structure.
• Egg. I like to use a medium egg, which weighs 50 grams.
• Vanilla extract. Use homemade vanilla extract or store bought. You can even replace it with vanilla sugar or a vanilla bean.
• Flour. For almost every recipe, I use all purpose flour.
• Salt. A small pinch is enough.
• Baking soda. This gives the cookies their chewy texture.
• Chocolate chips. I mean, what would a chocolate chip cookie be without chocolate chips? Use a flavor you like most. I mostly use dark and/or milk chocolate chips.

Perfectly round cookies

To get your cookies perfectly round, use a round cutter immediately after they come out of the oven. I always use a large cutter from this set of round metal cutters. You put the cutter around the cookie and spin it around so the cookies get a nice round shape.

More chocolate chip recipes

If you love chocolate chip cookies, I’m sure that you want to try these recipes with chocolate chips too!

• Healthy whole wheat chocolate chip muffins
• Chocolate chip madeleines
• Coffee chocolate chip cookies

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Chocolate chip cookies recipe

Make your own homemade chocolate chip cookies with this easy recipe. I'll tell you how to make it!

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time12 minutes mins

Total Time22 minutes mins

Servings: 16 cookies

Ingredients

• 100 grams of unsalted butter
• 150 grams of brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 200 grams of all purpose flour
• pinch of salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 100 grams of chocolate chips
• extra chocolate chips for decoration

Metric – US Customary

Instructions

• Add butter and brown sugar in a bowl and mix a few minutes until creamy. Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix until incorporated.
• Add flour, salt and baking soda and turn off the mixer once the flour is incorporated. Mix the chocolate chips into the dough.
• Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour (but preferably overnight), then divide the dough into 16 equal pieces.
• Roll balls of the pieces of dough and place them on the baking sheet, allow sufficient space between the cookies. I usually need 2-3 baking sheets to bake all the cookies. Press some extra pieces of chocolate in the dough (see the baking tip for two possible ways).
• Bake in a preheated oven at 170 °C/340 °F (conventional oven) for 12-14 minutes until golden brown. The cookies will be slightly soft after baking. Let them cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes, then move them to a wire rack where they can cool completely.

From now on, make your own crème brûlée with this easy recipe. Eating (and making!) this delicious crème brûlée dessert will never disappoint.

Classic crème brûlée recipe

I don’t know about you, but I have often eaten disappointing crème brûlée in restaurants. From ice cold to way too thick, or even without the crack of the caramelized layer that is essential when eating this dessert. It has made me less likely to pick this French dessert from the dessert menu.

Yesterday I made my own crème brûlée for the first time and wow, it was fantastically delicious. With only 5 ingredients you can make your own crème brûlée at home, so I highly recommend it. Of course I share this easy recipe with you!

Crème brùlée dessert flavors

And did you know that you can also vary with this recipe? For example by adding extra flavors, such as citrus peel or lavender. Still, for me, nothing beats the original, vanilla-based and with a golden brown, crunchy sugar coating.

Crème brûlée torch

I often get asked which exact burner I use for this dessert and my answer is simple: it doesn’t really matter. I have tried several and they all work fine. As long as the burner has a child lock and can be refilled, it’s totally fine. Like this one for example.

I do like to have refill packs in the house because you will always find that your burner is suddenly empty at the moment you’ll need it. So don’t forget to purchase those as well.

Crème brûlée without torch

As already mentioned in the recipe, one option is to put the sugar-coated desserts under the grill until the sugar turns golden brown. So it can be done, but you get the best results with a burner.

No bake recipes

Looking for recipes that don’t need to go in the oven? I got you, here are a few of my no bake desserts:

• 3 ingredient chocolate mousse (without egg)
• no bake apple caramel cheesecakes
• fresh berry panna cotta

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Vanilla crème brûlée recipe

From now on, make your own classic crème brûlée with this easy recipe, enjoy!

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time45 minutes mins

Total Time55 minutes mins

Servings: 6 servings

Ingredients

• 5 egg yolks
• 80 grams of fine granulated sugar
• 500 ml whipping cream
• 1 vanilla pod
• cane sugar

Metric – US Customary

Instructions

• Put the egg yolks and fine granulated sugar in a bowl and using a whisk, whisk well together.
• Pour the whipping cream into a saucepan. Cut the vanilla pod in half lengthwise and add the vanilla seeds to the whipping cream.
• Heat the whipping cream while stirring and then pour it in with the egg yolks while continuing to stir in the bowl.
• Divide the mixture among the baking dishes. Place them in baking dish, put in the oven and pour in a layer of hot water.
• Bake the crème brûlée for 45-50 minutes (larger dishes up to 60 minutes) in the oven at 150°C/300℉ (conventional).
• The dessert is good when the mixture is firm, but in the center of the dish it may still be a little jiggly.
• Let them cool for a while on the counter and then put them in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours to set.
• After they have set, remove them from the refrigerator and sprinkle a thin layer of cane sugar on top. Use a blow torch to caramelize the sugar layer. Putting them under the grill until the sugar is melted and turns golden brown is also an option.

Fresh tart rhubarb topped with a tasty crumble. With this recipe for rhubarb crumble you can serve your guests a delicious dessert. Also delicious with a scoop of ice cream on top.

Homemade rhubarb crumble

Rhubarb, it’s something you either love or hate, a taste that takes a while to get used to. At least that’s what I’ve found. Rhubarb is sour on its own, and a bit bitter. So it needs a sweet counterpart to that familiar sour taste you’re used to in rhubarb recipes.

So for this rhubarb crumble, I added the necessary sugar. And lemon, too, because I like the tang. By the way, you can leave it out if it’s too much for you.

BAKING TIP: I like to use ramekins for crumble recipes

Rhubarb crumble with almond flour

I made the crumble with almond flour and small pieces of almonds, in part because I was reminded of the rhubarb galette that tasted so incredibly good with the almonds. This almond crumble turned out to be another success when combined with rhubarb!

A strawberry milkshake, a vanilla milkshake or a chocolate milkshake, I think that sums up the three favorite milkshake flavors. My favorite is the strawberry milkshake, so I am sharing that with you today.

Easy strawberry milkshake recipe

Briefly, you make a strawberry milkshake by mixing ice cream, milk and strawberries. You can use either fresh or frozen strawberries for this milkshake.

I remember well that we used to have a milkshake maker at home; it was one I had won at bingo. I think we used it a couple of times before it disappeared into a bag and sat gathering dust in the shed. Of course, a special milkshake maker is not necessary. A blender or food processor also work perfectly. For this strawberry milkshake recipe, I used the blender.

Of course, a special milkshake maker is not necessary. A blender or food processor also work perfectly. For this strawberry milkshake, I used the blender.

Once you have blended all the ingredients into a smooth consistency, pour the milkshake into pretty glasses and decorate the milkshakes with whipped cream, a fresh strawberry and possibly some sprinkles. You can go as far as you want and make it a real freak shake.

Strawberry milkshake without ice cream

Nowadays many people are looking for a slightly healthier version of their beloved milkshake. Sure, you make a real milkshake with ice cream, but you can still make a tasty strawberry milkshake without ice cream. Just replace the ice cream with milk (preferably whole milk).

Optionally, you can add some extra sugar or sweetener to replace some of the sweetness of the missing ice cream, or replace the sugar with a ripe banana. The banana will make your milkshake a little firmer.

How do you thicken a milkshake?

I used strawberries from the freezer for this milkshake. This makes your milkshake nice and cold and also a little thicker. If you use fresh strawberries, you can adjust the ice cream to milk ratio a bit. Use more ice cream and less milk. You can also cut out some of the sugar if you add more ice.

Scroll down for the full recipe of my favorite strawberry milkshake with my ideal thickness.

Vanilla sauce is incredibly delicious with desserts. Serve warm vanilla sauce with apple strudel, apple crumble, brownies or, of course, a delicious bread pudding.

Homemade vanilla sauce

Vanilla sauce, never before had I thought about making it myself. That is, until last week, when I had another recipe on my to-do list that included this sauce.

Since vanilla sauce is not difficult to make, I decided to make it quickly. The result was a fantastically delicious creamy sauce and the big question was why I had never done it before.

TIP: have you made your own 3-ingredient chocolate sauce once? I guarantee it’s as good as this vanilla sauce!

Vanilla sauce for bread pudding

The recipe I made to go with this vanilla sauce was for little apple strudels. A perfect combination.

What this sauce is even more perfect for: bread pudding. I love making my own bread pudding and a dash of vanilla sauce is the perfect combination to make your homemade bread pudding a real treat.

Looking for a good bread pudding recipe? Try this sourdough bread pudding from my friend Simone!

What is vanilla sauce made of?

You only need 4 ingredients to make this vanilla dessert sauce recipe. You can find several recipes for custard sauce, but I like this one best.

• Whipping cream: I love the rich, creamy flavor that whipping cream adds to a dessert sauce.
• Sugar: Provides the perfect sweet taste to the homemade sauce.
• Egg Yolks: Egg yolks thicken the sauce and give it the perfect thickness. They also provide a rich flavor.
• Vanilla bean: This is the most important ingredient of all: vanilla! The vanilla bean gives the famous distinct flavor that a vanilla sauce should have.

Perfect to make yourself and to have around the house during the holidays: gingerbread spices. In the Netherlands, this spice mix is hard to come by, so I always make it myself.

How to make gingerbread spice mix

I used to just add the spices for gingerbread recipes separately with each recipe, but that’s totally impractical. Especially if you like to bake with gingerbread spices like I do.

From now on, I (and you!) won’t have to deal with loose spices in every recipe, because I’ve made my own gingerbread spice mix. Since I wrote this recipe, the jar has already been refilled with a new homemade gingerbread spice mix. It went through several Christmas recipes I made in the last few weeks.

If you love gingerbread, I recommend you make enough and stock up 😉

Gingerbread spice substitute

As mentioned above, these spices are not easily available in the Netherlands. Therefore, an alternative is often chosen: Speculaas spice mix! This is a really typical Dutch spice mix, and of course I have a recipe for it.

Pumpkin spice is also a good alternative. Just remember that your recipe will taste different if you use an alternative.

Homemade gingerbread spice mix

Every year I bake something with that famous gingerbread flavor. It’s a bit like our speculaas spice mix, but this gingerbread spice mix obviously contains more ginger.

While cinnamon is the dominant spice in the speculaas spice mix and usually at least 5-6 spices are added, the gingerbread spice mix is a bit simpler.

The gingerbread spice mix contains as much ginger as cinnamon, but because ginger is quite strong, you will taste it more. In addition, nutmeg and cloves come through, making it a truly wintry flavor combination.

Gingerbread recipes

Looking for recipes so you can use your homemade gingerbread spices? Look no further! These are a few of my favorite gingerbread recipes:

• gingerbread cookies
• gingerbread bundt cake with white chocolate
• gingerbread scones

Poffertjes are very famous in the Netherlands and are also called Dutch mini pancakes. I have the perfect easy poffertjes recipe for you to make at home. You probably already have the ingredients, so you can get started right away.

Dutch poffertjes

I don’t eat them very often, but I absolutely love them. I’m talking about poffertjes, of course. Delicious little fluffy pancakes with a bit of a spongy texture. Serve with a some powdered sugar and a small knob of butter, the best way you can eat them. It’s a traditional Dutch treat, loved by many.

My mom used to bake poffertjes for us to eat during school vacations. I recently bought a cast-iron poffertjes pan so that I could make them at home, and so today I am sharing the basic recipe for traditional Dutch poffertjes with you!

TIP: Do you love Dutch recipes? Here you can find all of my Dutch baking recipes.

Someone once asked me if you could compare poffertjes to American pancakes, but I think these are two total different things. I see them as two total different recipes.

Where to eat poffertjes in the Netherlands?

If you go to a market, fair or theme park you’ll definitely find a stand where they make fresh poffertjes. It’s popular street food in the Netherlands.

You’ll get a small paper plate with a portion of poffertjes and they will do some generous dusting with icing sugar. They’ll serve a wooden fork with the poffertjes to enjoy them.

Some stands will have a place to sit, in those cases you’ll get a proper plate and cutlery instead of the paper one.

Poffertjes without yeast

Some recipes call for yeast, but I have never used yeast in my batter for mini Dutch pancakes. So, my recipe does not call for yeast.

Originally, poffertjes were made with yeast, but you can make incredibly delicious poffertjes with baking powder! By using baking powder, you don’t have to wait for the batter to rise, you can start baking right away.

Also, I find that many home bakers find the use of yeast a barrier, so it is just as easy to replace it with baking powder. So you can make them just fine with yeast, but in this article I share a recipe for poffertjes without yeast (with baking powder).

What is the best traditional poffertjes pan?

For poffertjes, you’ll need a special poffertjes pan. Personally, I have a special cast iron pan at home that I find the easiest to work with. I use a chunk of butter, prick it with a fork, and use it to grease the pan each time I bake. You can also use a brush and melted butter, but make sure the brush can withstand the heat. I made a mistake about that once 😉 .

There are also electric pans, the advantage of which is that they already have a non-stick coating. You also don’t have to work as fast as you would with a cast iron pan. It’s a bit easier if you make poffertjes for the first time.

Both are good options, it really just depends on where your personal preference lies.

How to serve Dutch mini pancakes?

There is only one traditional way to serve these little pancakes: with icing sugar and a small cube of butter. But it’s totally fine if you like to vary a bit. You could add some cinnamon to the icing sugar for example, you’ll really enjoy it. You could also serve them with Dutch stroop or maple syrup.

I once served my poffertjes with icing sugar and fresh fruit and made skewers out of them. They were a big hit!

Things I never tried, but know for sure are delicious:

• Serve your poffertjes with ice cream
• Make lemon poffertjes by adding soms lemon zest and juice to the batter. To make it a real treat, you could serve them with some cream and lemon curd.
• Replace some of the all purpose flour for cocoa powder for chocolate poffertjes

TIP:​ We have another traditional pancake recipe in the Netherlands: thin pancakes. I of course share my recipe for traditional Dutch thin pancakes, but also share a lot of other tips and tricks.

Substitute options for poffertjes

How can I make gluten-free poffertjes?

You can replace the all purpose flour with buckwheat flour. The batter could be a bit thicker, so feel free to add a little more milk if needed.

How can I make dairy free poffertjes?

Replace the milk by almond milk or oatmilk. And don’t forget to use margarine or another kind of dairy free butter.

This moist lemon loaf has a nice fresh flavor and is easy to make. A delicious lemon cake that will make your mouth water!

Moist lemon cake

Besides cookies, cakes are my other favorite recipe to bake. If I don’t bake a cake for too long, it starts to itch. My head is full of ideas and I prefer to bake them all in one day. My inspiration for this creamy lemon cake came during a trip to Lisbon.

When I was there in early January, the hotel served lemon cake slices for breakfast every morning. Of course, I don’t have to tell you that I put a piece of cake on my plate almost every morning. The cake was deliciously creamy, fresh and smooth. I wanted to make it again at home.

Successfully, because this recipe makes it even more delicious than it was in Lisbon.

Baking tip: I used a 25cm loaf pan for this cake, but you can easily convert this recipe to another size using the conversion tool on the recipe card.

Lemon yogurt cake

You are used to it from me, but of course this is a recipe for an easy lemon cake. Within 20 minutes you will have this delicious cake in the oven, really. With a deliciously moist yet airy result.

Are you curious how I managed to make this lemon cake so moist? The answer is yogurt! This ingredient gives the cake a creamy texture without being greasy. In this cake, I specifically chose Greek yogurt 10%, but I have made it with other (lower-fat) types of yogurt as well. All can be used, but I find that whole yogurt works best.

Lemon glaze for cake

This cake is irresistibly delicious on its own, but if you want to make it more festive, you can add a glaze. Personally, I like a nice sour lemon glaze with lemon juice. You can also combine lemon juice and Greek yogurt, but adding Greek yogurt would require you to store the cake in the refrigerator, and since cakes dry out, that is not my preference.

How to make a lemon glaze

With this recipe you can bake your own Dutch oliebollen, enjoy! And of course I share lots of baking tips with you so you can bake the tastiest oliebollen at home.

Dutch oliebollen tradition

Here in the Netherlands we love our oliebollen. You can buy them at the stand, but I like making them myself the most. Oliebollen stands can often be found as early as October and they stay up until sometime in January. They are also often found at fairs throughout the year.

In the Netherlands we eat Oliebollen mainly with New Year’s Eve. It is a traditional delicacy with which we ring in the new year. Every year I use my recipe for oliebollen, which I personally find the most delicious.

Dutch donuts

Oliebollen are fried and somewhat similar to fritters, although they are more readily called ‘Dutch donuts’.

This is the basic recipe for oliebollen, but you can also make delicious new flavors with them. I have already made them with apple and cinnamon, and Oreo oliebollen are also delicious. I will of course share these recipes with you.

Other Dutch treats we like to eat at New Year’s Eve are Dutch apple beignets en Dutch kniepertjes.

Which oil is best for making oliebollen?

I always use a frying pan (or my Dutch oven) with sunflower oil. I’ve been doing that for years and it really works perfectly. Of course, if you have an electric frying pan, you can also fill it with sunflower oil.

What you absolutely don’t want to do: fry oil balls in frying fat. This fat solidifies after cooling and leaves a white layer on your oliebol. Doesn’t look appetizing and is also really not as tasty.

Oliebollen ingredients

You don’t need a lot or any weird ingredients to bake oliebollen at home. I list them for you and share right away some tips for ingredients where needed.

• Milk. Heat the milk in the microwave or in a saucepan until lukewarm, or body temperature if you find that easier to determine the right temperature. If the milk is too hot, it can kill the yeast, preventing your batter from rising. Not heating is not a solution either, because even then your oliebollen batter will not rise.
• Dry instant yeast. Dissolve the yeast in you luke warm milk and set aside for a few minutes. You’ll see that the mixture increases in volume.
• White caster sugar. For a little sweetening, but also to make your yeast work well.
• Flour. You can use all purpose flour or wheat flour for baking oliebollen.
• Salt. A pinch of salt always makes a difference and enhances other flavors.
• Egg. The last ingredient for your oliebollen, a baker once told me that eggs reduce fat absorption in oliebollen.

What to do with leftover oliebollen?

I always have breakfast on January 1 with the leftover oliebollen, which is a tradition in our family. Just heat them up, sprinkle with powdered sugar and enjoy.

However, you can also bake French toast from oliebollen. Cut them into pieces/slices and follow the recipe for French toast.

Another option: use oil balls for a bread pudding. Although then, of course, you make an oliebollen pudding. Slightly misleading that name, because it’s actually a kind of French toast, but in a large dish and baked in the oven instead of the pan.

Speculaas spices are probably the most well-known spice blend in the Netherlands. This traditional Dutch speculaas spice mix is widely used, especially in November and December around Sinterklaas.

Traditional Dutch spice mix

In preparation for this speculaas spice mix, I went over my spice cabinet, bought some more spices and studied the ingredient list of my favorite speculaas spices. There are other spices you can use for speculaas spice mix, but I have now created a spice mix with ingredients that you can find in almost any (large) supermarket.

I also give tips in the recipe for additional optional flavorings, so you can make the spice mix just the way you like it. Because that’s the nice thing about making your own spice mix, everyone likes something different and by making it yourself you can make it exactly to your liking.

Speculaas spice mix ingredients

Speculaas spices contain a selection of the following ingredients: cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, mace, cardamom, coriander, allspice, white pepper and sometimes anise powder. It varies with each spice mix and each person exactly what the composition is and whether some of these spices are omitted.

White pepper gives more spice to the spices but can also quickly dominate the taste, personally I do not like this and you will definitely not find it in my recipe. One thing is for sure, cinnamon is always the base of speculaas spice mix and therefore the most important and most present ingredient.

What’s the difference between speculaas and speculoos?

Even though the name is almost the same, speculaas and speculoos are two different cookies. Speculaas is a typical Dutch cookie and gets it’s flavor of different spices used in the speculaas spice mix.

Speculoos cookies have been created as ‘cookie without speculaas spices’ in Belgium. The brand Lotus is known for their speculoos cookies. They say that their cookies obtains it taste by the special production proces of the caramelisation of sugar in the cookie. Speculoos often includes only one spice: cinnamon.

You can read even more about the differences between speculaas and speculoos here.

Recipes with speculaas spice mix

Now, you probably want to have some recipes to use this spice mix for. No problem, I have a few great speculaas recipes:

• Speculaas cookies
• Almond paste filled spiced cookies (gevuld speculaas)
• Little spiced cookies (kruidnoten)

Also try this thousand layer cake! It doesn’t call for speculaas spice mix, but you could swap out the spices for the spice mix instead.

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Speculaas spice mix recipe

You can make a homemade spice mix just the way you like it. Here is a tasty recipe for speculaas spices to make your own speculaas cookies.

Prep Time5 minutes mins

Total Time5 minutes mins

Servings: 1 small jar

Ingredients

• 8 tbsp ground cinnamon
• 2 tbsp ground nutmeg
• 2 tbsp ground cloves
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 2 tsp ground mace
• 2 tsp ground cardamom

Metric – US Customary

Instructions

• Put everything together in a bowl and stir well, that's all you need to do. You can also use a mortar for this.
• If you want to experiment: don't add everything at once, but do it in parts. In between, always smell well to find your ideal mix of speculaas spice mix.

It took me a while to figure out how to put a good chocolate fondue on the table. By now I have tested so much that I can share the best and easy chocolate fondue with you, as well as tips for fondue dippers.

Best chocolate for chocolate fondue

Making chocolate fondue is all about the right consistency of chocolate. I use “plain” chocolate (Callebaut is my favorite brand of chocolate) combined with heavy cream to achieve this consistency. The result is an easy fondue recipe that works well for fondue sets.

Chocolate fondue fountain

If you want to use a chocolate fountain, I would not use the recipe below but choose special fountain chocolate from Callebaut or another brand. This chocolate has extra cocoa butter added to it, making it extra nice and smooth after melting.

Of course, you can also add extra cocoa butter yourself to the chocolate you want to use for the fountain. Then add 10% cocoa butter of the total amount of chocolate.

Easy chocolate fondue

I made quite a few mistakes during my search for the best fondue recipe. From a deformed plastic bowl to a broken fondue set. So once in a while I can be a bit clumsy in the kitchen. But because of that, I can save you from all these beginner mistakes. 😉

With this easy chocolate fondue recipe, you won’t make any mistakes. I am happy to share my recipe with you.