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Spice Cake (Kruidkoek)
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Spice Cake (Kruidkoek)

Nana
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A traditional Dutch spice cake fragrant with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Transcribed from the family's handwritten recipe.

Prep: 15 min
Cook: 45 min
8
Easy

Ingredients

  • 12 oz self-raising flour
  • 8 oz sugar
  • 1 dessertspoon cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg
  • Ground cloves, to taste
  • 2–3 eggs
  • ½ glass water

Instructions

  1. 1

    Grease the cake tin and dust it with breadcrumbs (Vorm invetten = breadcrumbs).

  2. 2

    Mix the dough, adding the ginger, and fold in the egg white (Deeg mengen, ginger erin, eggwhite).

  3. 3

    Beat it up and pour it into the pan, then bake (Opkloppen en in the pan).

Tips & Notes

This is a faithful transcription of the family's original handwritten recipe, with light English clarifications added in brackets.

Added by Michael Duregon on 27 July 2026

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