Pain d'Epices (GF)

This is a recipe for something like gingerbread. It's a very popular breakfast or afternoon snack in Belgium and the Netherlands. Over here we call it "Zoetekoeke". I loved it and I have missed it since going gluten-free. Yesterday, however, I decided to just try and make my own, gluten-free, zoetekoeke. And oh yes, it succeeded ! My boyfriend actually likes this one better than the original one :-)


Peperkoek / Pain d'Épices / Gingerbread

Ingredients:

• 250g gluten-free flour
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3 teaspoons mixed speculaas spices (ground cinnamon, ground cloves, ground nutmeg, ground white pepper, ground anise seed, ground coriander seed)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 225ml milk
• 100g brown sugar
• 50g liquid honey
• 1 egg yolk

Mix all the ingredients until it forms a sticky dough. Pour it in a buttered cake pan and bake in a pre-heated oven at 175°C for about 1 hour. Let the 'cake' cool completely before cutting it in pieces.