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Belgian brown sugar biscuits

Name: Belgian brown sugar biscuits
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: Serves 20-25
Cuisine: Belgian
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups flour; 1 1/4 cups brown sugar; 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder; 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg; 7 tablespoons butter; 1 egg; 1 packet vanilla sugar; 1 pinch of salt; 1 teaspoon Baking powder

by: MarieGlobetrotter

February 10, 2013

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Prep time 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook time 20 minutes
Serves 20-25

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Author Notes

I love these biscuits with milk or coffee.These are called "Bastogne" in Belgium and can be bought in stores but I try to make myself. The best sugar to use is "Cassonade", a blonde (light) or ambréé sugar that is very hard to find outside Northern France and Belgium. You can substitue it with brown sugar for approximately the same taste. —MarieGlobetrotter

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Preheat the oven on 350F
Combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, vanilla sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder and salt. Melt the butter and add to the flour mixture. Combine well Now add the egg and stir together. If the dough is to dry, add a few tablespoons of milk. Form a ball with the dough and set in the fridge for about 30 min to an hour
Roll out the dough on a floured surface (about 2 inches). Cut rectangular-shaped biscuits and place them on greaseproof paper.
Bake for about 20 minutes. The biscuits must be quite golden and crispy. Let cool

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Linda D. September 5, 2019

Is it really 3 teaspoons cinnamon? Sounds like a lot. And how’s much baking powder?

MarieGlobetrotter September 5, 2019

Made a couple of corrections but there are 2tsp of cinnamon. I have the recipe in grams (Europe style) so my apologies for the mistakes

Linda D. September 5, 2019

Thanks for updating. I’ll test them out this weekend and let you know how they come out! We love the LU version of these cookies.

MarieGlobetrotter September 5, 2019

If you can find the Lotus or Bastogne, they are very good. Please note that in Belgium we use a top of brown sugar called Vergeoise and that is only available there. Plus store cookies often have more sugar than home-made ones

Leslie H. December 15, 2016

How much baking powder?!?!?

MarieGlobetrotter December 15, 2016

1 tsp

Baker July 14, 2016

Hi, what is vanilla sugar? And how much is "1 packet vanilla sugar"? And is this something that can be bought in America?

MarieGlobetrotter July 14, 2016

Vanilla sugar is something you find everywhere in Europe and in Montreal. It comes in pakets of 8gr. It's basically very fine sugar with vanilla flavor. Here is an image: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518uXDe6KtL._AC_UL320_SR188,320_.jpg

The alternative is to use vanilla extract or a vanilla bean

Gentjana B. November 15, 2015

Hey Marie,
What do you measure flower and brown sugar with?

MarieGlobetrotter November 15, 2015

It's in cups.

Gentjana B. November 18, 2015

Thx, I was wondering about how much soda as well. I did them some days ago with 1 tsp. Cookies came out tasty but a little bit hard.

suzy December 6, 2014

Hello! I'd like to try your cookies, but am not sure of the weight of the vanilla sugar. Would you clarify this, please? Thanks!

MarieGlobetrotter December 6, 2014

Hi there, I would say a 2 teaspoons.You can also use vanilla extract. It's about the same depending on the brand of vanilla extract or essence that you use.I