To bake Dutch spiced biscuits, buy ingredients for the dough rather than ready-made breakfast cake: the Leuke Recepten recipe uses self-raising flour, butter and speculaas spices, among other ingredients. If you’d like to serve breakfast cake alongside the biscuits, choose a flavour that suits the occasion and check the current packaging for ingredients and allergens.
You’re looking for ingredients to make dough that you can shape and bake. The Leuke Recepten recipe includes self-raising flour, butter, milk, sugar and speculaas spices, among other ingredients; breakfast cake is not a substitute for the dough base.
You’re looking for ready-made breakfast cake to enjoy with coffee or add to a festive platter. In that case, it matters whether you choose a ginger version or a plain one.
You want to know which ingredients, sweeteners and allergens are in your chosen variety. Check the nutritional information and allergen declaration on the current packaging.
| What to consider | What to check when buying | Who is this important to? |
|---|---|---|
| Baking or serving | For homemade spiced biscuits, buy the ingredients listed in a spiced biscuit recipe. Choose breakfast cake as a ready-made treat to serve alongside them. | I want to shape and bake my own spiced biscuits; I can’t make dough with a ready-made cake. The right product for the job comes first for around 50% of consumers. |
| Flavour | Compare ginger, plain and pearl sugar varieties, taking the packaging and the flavour you want to serve into account. | If I’m serving breakfast cake alongside spiced biscuits, I want to choose a flavour that complements the rest of the treats. This flavour choice takes priority for around 30% of consumers. |
| Ingredients and allergens | Read the ingredients list, allergen declaration and nutritional information. Compare nutritional values on the same basis, for example per 100 g. | If I have an allergy or am comparing sweeteners, I want to know exactly what’s in this variety. Label information is the priority for around 20% of consumers. |
A cake that’s already been baked can’t replace the ingredients you need to make dough you can shape. Leuke Recepten’s spiced biscuit recipe uses self-raising flour, butter, milk and speculaas spices, among other ingredients.
Decide in advance whether you’re baking or serving. For baking, buy the ingredients listed in the recipe; serve breakfast cake as a separate treat.
Added flavour and nutritional composition are two different things. For example, Peijnenburg lists ginger in its Ginger variety and xylitol in another plain variety.
Compare the ingredients and nutritional information for the specific varieties, rather than relying on the wording on the front of the pack.
Peijnenburg Ginger’s product information lists rye and a possible presence of ingredients including milk and nuts. The flavour name won’t tell you that.
If you have an allergy, check the ingredients and warnings on the current packaging of the variety you’re buying.
Voedingscentrum advises against tasting raw biscuit dough or batter because raw ingredients may contain pathogens.
Bake the dough before serving the biscuits, and wash your hands after handling raw dough.
Peijnenburg offers breakfast cake varieties that you can compare by flavour, packaging and ingredients.
This ALDI own-label brand offers, among other products, a ginger breakfast cake and a pre-sliced variety.
Lidl lists premium breakfast cake and Vlugge Japie in plain and spiced cake varieties, among other products.
These Snelle Jelle varieties are ready-made cakes to serve as a treat or snack. They’re not a substitute for the ingredients needed to make your own spiced biscuits.
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A ready-made cake if you’d like to serve a variety with raisins alongside your spiced biscuits.
Size: 325 g. If you have allergies, check the current packaging.
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A ready-made plain variety for anyone who’d like to serve breakfast cake alongside other treats.
Size: 325 g. If you have allergies, read the ingredients and warnings on the packaging.
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A ready-made cake for anyone who’d also like to compare ingredients and nutritional information when choosing something to serve.
Size: 250 g. The variety name alone doesn’t confirm a specific sugar claim. Check the current packaging and compare nutritional values on the same basis.
Not as a direct substitute for spiced biscuit dough. The Leuke Recepten recipe uses self-raising flour, butter, milk, sugar and speculaas spices, among other ingredients; serve breakfast cake separately if you like.
Read the ingredients list and allergen warnings on the current packaging of your chosen variety. The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority explains which allergens must be declared on labels; Peijnenburg Ginger’s product information lists rye and the possible presence of milk and nuts, among other things.
No, you can’t assume that every breakfast cake or spiced biscuit dough contains it. Voedingscentrum says that bakers aren’t required to use baker’s salt. Check the ingredients of a packaged product or ask the baker which salt they used.
It’s best not to taste raw dough. Voedingscentrum warns that raw batter may contain pathogens, so bake the biscuits before serving them.
