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Dutch Sinterklaas pepernoten cake Vegetarian

Name: Dutch Sinterklaas pepernoten cake
Prep time: 1 h 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: dutch
Ingredients: 300 grams of self-raising flour; 300 grams of sugar; 300 grams of butter at room temperature; 6 eggs; 1.5 tablespoons of speculaas spice mix; a handful of chocolate pepernoten biscuits; a handful of kruidnoten biscuits; 200 grams of butter at room temperature; 100 grams of icing sugar; 2 teaspoons speculaas spice mix

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This festive cake is delicious and creamy, with speculaas buttercream and kruidnoten biscuits. The perfect cake to serve on pakjesavond (the night Sinterklaas visits)!

1 hours 25 minutes

8 persons

Pie and cake

Nutrition balance score

Unbalanced

5.5/10

Glycemic Index

Glycemic Load

62.97 (Medium)

53.76 (High)

Nutrition per serving

Kcal

908.60 kcal

Carbohydrates
Of which sugars

85.37 g
55.06 g

Total fat
Of which saturated fats

58.83 g
36.16 g

Proteins

10.85 g

Fiber

1.60 g

Sodium

415.22 mg

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Dutch Sinterklaas pepernoten cake ingredients

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Made by Véronique

Published at 2021-11-30, this recipe is for 8 persons and takes 1 hours 25 minutes.

Founder of Ohmydish (since 2014), she prefers to spend all day in the kitchen. Once working in the hospitality industry as an independent chef, she loves helping you gain confidence in the kitchen. With her easy-to-follow recipes, handy tips, and cooking knowledge, you'll make the most delicious dishes yourself! The recipes are accessible to everyone, from beginners to advanced home cooks.

Updated at: 2025-11-13

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Preparation time

1 hours 10 minutes

Time cooking

15 minutes

Total time

1 hours 25 minutes

Preparation – 1 hour + 10 minutes

Preheat the oven to 165 degrees celsius. Grease the springform cake tin with butter and line the bottom with baking parchment.

Beat 300 grams of soft butter with the sugar until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time, beating continually until smooth.

Add the self-raising flour along with one and a half tablespoons of the speculaas spice mix. Spread the batter into the greased cake tin and bake for around an hour.

The exact baking time depends on the oven. Check if the cake is cooked with a skewer; if it comes out clean, the cake is done.

Open the oven door carefully so that the cake does not collapse, then let it cool completely.

Finishing the Sinterklaas pepernoten cake – 15 minutes

Beat the butter and icing sugar until you have a smooth and airy buttercream. Stir in 2 teaspoons of the speculaas spice mix.

Remove the cake from the tin and cut it in half. Place one half on a cake stand or large plate and spread with a layer of buttercream.

Place the other half of the cake on top and cover the top and sides with the rest of the buttercream. Garnish the sinterklaas pepernoten cake with chocolate pepernoten and kruidnoten. Enjoy!

Tips!

Who is Sinterklaas?

Sinterklaas, or Sint-Nicolaas (Saint Nicholas in English), visits the homes of children in the Netherlands on the night of 5 December each year (known as pakjesavond).

He delivers presents and festive treats, but only to children who have been good! He’s not the same as Santa Claus but is adored just as much by Dutch children.

What are pepernoten and kruidnoten?

Both of these biscuits are very familiar to Dutch consumers. If you live outside the Netherlands, you may not have heard of them.

Pepernoten are uneven, square-shaped biscuits, flavoured with aniseed, and other spices (like clove and cinnamon). Kruidnoten are little round biscuits, similar in shape and size to amaretti biscuits, and are made from speculaas.

What is speculaas?

Speculaas is a type of spiced biscuit/cookie which is popular in the Netherlands. It is similar to the Belgian Speculoos biscuit/cookie, which is more readily available in the UK and USA (known as a Biscoff biscuit/cookie).

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Nutritional values

Per 1 serving / piece:

Pay attention! These indicated nutritional values are based on standard tables and are therefore an estimated total. No rights can be derived from the data in the nutritional value table.

General

Kcal

908.60 kcal

Carbohydrates
Of which sugars

85.37 g
55.06 g

Total fat
Of which saturated fats

58.83 g
36.16 g

Proteins

10.85 g

Fiber

1.60 g

Sodium

415.22 mg

Show vitamines & minerals

Minerals

Iron

1.47 mg

Calcium

48.75 mg

Magnesium

21.65 mg

Potassium

21.65 mg

Phosphorus

143.00 mg

Copper

0.16 mg

Zinc

1.07 mg

Iodine

15.75 µg

Selenium

15.11 µg

Vitamins

Vitamine C

0.30 mg

Vitamine D

1.56 mg

Vitamine A

160.72 mg

Vitamine B1

0.12 mg

Vitamine B2

0.21 mg

Vitamine B6

0.17 mg

Vitamine B12

1.04 µg

Folic acid

33.82 µg

Vitamine E

0.76 mg

Vitamine K

3.21 µg

Vitamine K1

0.00 µg

Handy! Scroll this table horizontally to see all nutritional values per ingredient

Amount		Ingredient	Allergens	Kcal	Carbs	Carbs of which sugars	Fat	Fat of which saturated	Protein	Fibers	Sodium	Iron	Calcium	Magnesium	Potassium	Phosphorus	Copper	Zinc	Iodine	Selenium	Vitamin C	Vitamin D	Vitamin A	Vitamin B1	Vitamin B2	Vitamin B6	Vitamin B12	Vitamin B11	Vitamin E	Vitamin K	Vitamin K1
37.5	gram	of self-raising flour	gluten	128.63	26.63 g	1.88 g	0.38 g	0.04 g	3.94 g	0.83 g	337.50 mg	0.26 mg	7.13 mg	7.50 mg	56.25 mg	30.00 mg	0.08 mg	0.22 mg	-	-	-	-	-	0.03 mg	0.02 mg	0.06 mg	-	5.63 µg	-	-	-
37.5	gram	of sugar		150.75	37.13 g	37.13 g	-	-	-	-	-	0.04 mg	-	0.75 mg	1.50 mg	-	-	0.01 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
37.5	gram	of butter	milk	275.63	0.26 g	0.26 g	30.94 g	20.25 g	0.26 g	-	1.88 mg	0.04 mg	4.88 mg	0.75 mg	5.63 mg	7.50 mg	-	0.03 mg	-	-	-	0.45 mg	0.38 mg	-	0.01 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-
0.75		eggs	egg	64.80	0.50 g	0.09 g	4.50 g	1.13 g	5.63 g	-	54.00 mg	0.81 mg	22.50 mg	4.50 mg	58.50 mg	81.00 mg	0.04 mg	0.59 mg	15.75 µg	13.82 µg	-	0.81 mg	0.09 mg	0.05 mg	0.14 mg	0.07 mg	1.04 µg	27.00 µg	0.50 mg	0.11 µg	-
0.19	tablespoon	of speculaas spice mix		6.98	1.64 g	0.02 g	0.29 g	0.03 g	0.11 g	0.20 g	0.45 mg	0.07 mg	4.50 mg	1.80 mg	11.25 mg	3.38 mg	0.01 mg	0.05 mg	-	0.22 µg	0.22 mg	-	112.50 mg	0.01 mg	0.01 mg	0.01 mg	-	0.90 µg	0.05 mg	2.25 µg	-
0.13	small handful	a of chocolate pepernoten biscuits	gluten, soy	22.50	3.00 g	1.50 g	1.00 g	0.60 g	0.35 g	0.25 g	10.00 mg	0.10 mg	2.50 mg	2.50 mg	10.00 mg	7.50 mg	0.01 mg	0.08 mg	-	0.50 µg	-	-	5.00 mg	0.01 mg	0.02 mg	0.02 mg	-	-	0.10 mg	0.05 µg	-
0.13	small handful	a of kruidnoten biscuits	gluten, soy	22.50	3.00 g	1.50 g	1.00 g	0.60 g	0.35 g	0.25 g	10.00 mg	0.10 mg	2.50 mg	2.50 mg	10.00 mg	7.50 mg	0.01 mg	0.08 mg	-	0.50 µg	-	-	5.00 mg	0.01 mg	0.02 mg	0.02 mg	-	-	0.10 mg	0.05 µg	-
25	gram	of butter	milk	183.75	0.18 g	0.18 g	20.63 g	13.50 g	0.18 g	-	1.25 mg	0.03 mg	3.25 mg	0.50 mg	3.75 mg	5.00 mg	-	0.02 mg	-	-	-	0.30 mg	0.25 mg	-	0.01 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-
12.5	gram	of icing sugar		50.75	12.50 g	12.50 g	-	-	-	-	-	0.01 mg	-	0.25 mg	0.63 mg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
0.25	teaspoon	speculaas spice mix		2.32	0.55 g	0.01 g	0.10 g	0.01 g	0.04 g	0.07 g	0.15 mg	0.02 mg	1.50 mg	0.60 mg	3.75 mg	1.13 mg	-	0.02 mg	-	0.08 µg	0.08 mg	-	37.50 mg	-	-	-	-	0.30 µg	0.02 mg	0.75 µg	-
				908.60	85.37 g	55.06 g	58.83 g	36.16 g	10.85 g	1.60 g	415.22 mg	1.47 mg	48.75 mg	21.65 mg	161.25 mg	143.00 mg	0.16 mg	1.07 mg	15.75 µg	15.11 µg	0.30 mg	1.56 mg	160.72 mg	0.12 mg	0.21 mg	0.17 mg	1.04 µg	33.82 µg	0.76 mg	3.21 µg	-