#speculaas

[haveyoueatenthis]

[veiligplekje]

[vegehana-food]

✿ スペキュラース | Speculaas ・オランダで親しまれているスパイスクッキー。生地には、シナモンやクローブ、カルダモン、ナツメグなどの香り豊かなスパイスが用いられており、様々��絵柄でかたどられているのが特徴です。クリスマスを象徴するサンタクロースの元祖とも言われる聖人を祝う「聖ニコラウスの日」(12月5－6日) に食べる習慣があります。

[snipertrifle]

So Van Helsing ground up The Host into a paste and since he's Dutch all I can think is...

[ethernitty]

this tea tastes exactly how it should taste and im mad about jt

[morethansalad]

Speculaas-Inspired Cookies (Vegan & Gluten-Free & Refined Sugar-Free)

[paranatellonta]

The Gingerbread Scent in the Woods

It had been such a long time since anyone had tasted the goods she’d baked. Everyone from the village would have been welcome to, as they’d once known her as Granny. Long before that—it had to be about a century ago—they had named her after the red hood she often wore.

But now the gingerbread was hot and crisp, and she’d have to eat it all on her own again.

The thought that they’d all forgotten she lived in this small house in the woods robbed her of her appetite, and she picked up the baking tray, her gait shuffling and unsteady as she took it outside.

There was a crack in one of the walls of her house, and if no one was going to enjoy it anyway, the gingerbread might as well keep out the cold. She placed it over the crack and admired her work for a moment, before deciding it’d stay in place much better if she applied some frosting. More importantly, making frosting would keep her hands busy for another while, and so yet another lonely day would have passed.

She had faith that even if she had to replace every wall and window with pastries and biscuits, some villagers or travellers would find her in the end, and she’d finally have visitors again. And if, by then, she’d run out of ingredients for baking, she’d just have to pop something else into the oven to make sure the visitors would stay.

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[Image description: A round piece of speculaas is cooling down on a baking tray, on top of red and white patterned kitchen towels. To the right of the baking tray is a wooden rolling pin, and a grey oven glove behind it.]

[merren2306]

Making some speculaas :)

[b4um3pfl4um3]

It feels like a crime eating Speculaas in September but I absolutely love these biscuits and I would kill for them.

Our supermarket already has them in stock and I just couldn't resist buying some.

[l-c-kindergarten]

brendan y

[working-with-4k-ultra-hd-videos]

Speculaas and Spiced Nuts

[cassettestoredayde]

Speculaas and Spiced Nuts

[enhid-events]

Speculaas

[capeblogger]

THE LAST CRUMBS OF CHRISTMAS

My pic shows chocolate coloured crumbs plus a fragment of … what?  A patterned biscuit? Yes, my friends, there it is. The final mouthful of my particular Christmas favourite: a Speculaas biscuit. They only appear in our shops around Christmas time, and if/when I spot a packet, I buy it with indecent haste, ignoring the sugar content and the price. The biscuits are imported from Holland, and…

[xxblackechoxx]

Vegan Speculaas Chocolate Cake

[divedrive]

Speculaas Cookies or Spicy Sinterklass Cakes I received a mold along with this traditional Dutch cookie recipe 20 years ago. A translation of the Latin word speculum is speculaas mirror. A carved mold is used to press the dough into to create wall decorations. The image becomes its mirror image when spread out onto the cookie sheet, thus the name. They range in size from huge, thick men and women weighing up to one pound known as lovers, to those the size of two-thirds of a cookie. If molds are not accessible, roll out the dough to the desired thickness and cut shapes with a gingerbread man or other cutters. Because they keep well for a long time, making them in advance around Christmas is fantastic. 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon ground cloves, 1/2 cup slivered almonds, 2 tablespoons chopped slivered almonds, 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, 2/3 cup butter, 2/3 cup dark brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 2 tablespoons milk, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 2 tablespoons chopped candied citron