Arnhemse meisjes
Puff pastry and cardamom come together in this dessert — 75 minutes, 11 steps, and the kind of result worth repeating. Below: the ingredients split into pantry staples and a quick shopping list, a built-in serving scaler, and the method in 11 steps.
You'll mainly reach for oven and baking tray. At medium difficulty across 11 steps, it's manageable with a little attention. As written, every ingredient resolved to a plant source.
What you'll need
Shopping list (2)
Pantry staples (you likely have these)
Diet: vegan — no meat, fish, dairy, egg or honey, based on every ingredient listed below.
Contains: Gluten
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How to make it
- Take your puff pastry from the freezer and defrost.
- Sprinkle some flour on the kitchen counter. Stack the sheets of puff pastry on top of each other and roll them out with a rolling pin. You want those five sheets to end up being as thin as one sheet.
- Using a round or oval form press into the puff pastry and try to be as economical doing that as possible. You want to have as many cookies as you can.
- Mix the vanilla sugar with the cinnamon, cardemom and limezest in a little bowl
- Remove the flour from the counter and sprinkle with a bit of the sugar mix.
- Brush your puff pastry with a little bit of eggwash and than dip into the sugar mix and roll them softly to press the sugar in.
- Put your sugary puff pastry on a baking sheet (greased or with baking paper) and leave the dough to rest for about 20 to 25 minutes. this will make the cookies even crisper.
- Preheat the oven in the meantime to 180 C and put the baking tray in the oven.
- bake the cookies golden brown in about 25 minutes and make sure the sugar is caramelised nicely
- And voila, Girls from Arnhem with an Almeerse twist
- Voila, Arnhemse Meisjes met een Almeerse twist.
You'll use: Oven · Baking tray · Baking sheet
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Ingredient substitutions
- Lime
- lemon
Tips & common questions
How long does Arnhemse meisjes take to make?
About 75 minutes from start to finish — an estimate based on the 11 steps and 5 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
What can I use instead of lime?
Try lemon. See the substitutions section above for more swaps.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes — use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Arnhemse meisjes vegan?
Every ingredient listed on this page resolved to a plant or mineral source in our ingredient ontology — no meat, fish, shellfish, dairy, egg or honey. Labels can still differ by brand, so check packaged items.
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