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SOFT FARMER'S CHEESE COOKIES

Steps:

• Grate the chilled butter on a box grater.
• Add the farmer's cheese and flour. Use your hands to quickly mix the ingredients together. It will be a very dry and crumbly texture.
• Add the egg yolks and water. Mix the dough and knead on the counter until it comes together.
• Form the dough into a disc and wrap it up in aluminum foil or parchment paper. Refrigerate for at least an hour.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Break off part of the dough and roll it out thinly on a well floured surface.
• Use a biscuit cutter (about 3 inches), an overturned cup or glass (preferably with thin edgeor anything else that is round and will be able to cut through the dough and press out as much circles from the dough as possible.
• Save the scraps, scrunch them into a little ball and refrigerate until it's firm again.(Also keep the rest of the dough refrigerated when you're not using it.)
• Put the sugar into a bowl and press one side of the circle of dough into the sugar.
• Fold it in half to form a half moon shape. Press one side into the sugar again, fold it in half and press one of the sides in the sugar.
• Repeat with the rest of the dough. You will have 80-100 cookies, depending on the size that you make them.
• Place the cookies sugar side up on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes, until the cookies are puffed up and golden brown.

SPECULAAS COOKIES

Steps:

• Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, mace, white pepper, and cloves in a large bowl.
• Cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in half the flour mixture. Beat in water, then remaining flour mixture. Shape into 3 disks. Pat each to a 1-inch thickness, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Dust surface and springerle mold lightly with confectioners' sugar. Roll out dough to a 1/4- to 3/8-inch thickness (deeper molds will need thicker dough). Cut a piece of dough about the size of the mold. Press mold firmly into dough, flip over, and gently roll over dough with a rolling pin. Flip over, and press onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Using a knife, trim excess dough. Gently coax dough out of mold with fingertips and onto a baking sheet. Repeat, spacing cookies 1 inch apart, and placing same-size cookies on same sheet. Freeze until firm, about 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Place 1 sheet of cookies in oven, and immediately reduce temperature to 250. Bake, 1 sheet at a time, until cookies are set and just beginning to turn light gold around edges, 55 to 65 minutes. Let cool on sheets on wire racks.