Buttercream Brabant Cakes

7. 10. 2025

This Brabant cookie recipe is used year after year in our family. It’s become a holiday tradition for all family members.

These cookies are soft and have that melt-in-your-mouth quality.

Ingredients:

For the dough:

• 1 cup of all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup of powdered sugar
• 1 cup of butter
• 1/4 cup of walnuts or hazelnuts
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla powder

Cream:

• 1/4 cup of butter
• 1/4 cup of ground nuts
• 1/4 cup of ground biscuits (Nilla Vanilla Wafers.are the best choice)
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla powder
• icing sugar
• rum
• boiled water

Decoration:

• baking chocolate
• ground nuts for coating

Method:

• Make a dough from the ingredients.
• Let it cool for at least an hour in the refrigerator.
• Then, roll out a thin pancake from it and cut out circles.
• Bake in an oven preheated to 370°F for about 8 minutes.
• Let cool thoroughly.
• In the meantime, prepare the cream.
• Rub the butter with vanilla powder, biscuits, and nuts.
• Prepare a rum bath: Mix rum, boiled water, and sugar.
• Prepare three baked circles.
• Spread the cream on two circles.
• Soak the middle cookie in the rum bath briefly and glue all the layers together.
• Finally, cover the tops with chocolate and coat the edges with ground nuts.

The recipe for Brabant cakes uses leftover egg whites so you can avoid wasting them and create a delicious treat.

Ingredients:

• 5 egg whites
• 1/4 cup of powdered sugar
• 1 cup of softened butter
• strong coffee (approx. 5 teaspoons)
• ground walnuts
• chocolate for coating

Method:

• Beat the egg whites until stiff.
• Then, whisk in the sugar spoon by spoonful.
• Make small circles with the spoon on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
• Bake (dry) at 200°F for about an hour.
• Rub the butter and sugar into a foam and gradually add the cooled coffee.
• If the cream curdles, whisk over steam for a while, then cool.
• Grease the baked circles with cream up to the edges.
• Mix the nuts with the grated chocolate and use to cover the edges.

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