Speculaas RecipeButtery Almond Cookies
From Maison Dore Trifles
"Like marzipan, speculaas (or speculaasjes as the individual cookies are called) is a cookie highly connected with the feast of Sinterklaas in Holland. The name speculaas has to do with the wooden molds the cookies are made in (we call it a speculaasplank, speculaas comes from the word speculum (mirror). One of the more famous shapes is a windmill of course!" For the recipe, click here.
Note: Conversions for the European measuring system are explained in the comment section of Maison Dore Trifles.
2 comments:
Dear Ms. Place,
Were you reading my mind?
I was assembling my holiday baking list, and decided to click back here to see if I could persuade you to give up your speculaas recipe...and here one was waiting for me!!
A bazillion years ago, when I was a child, and dinosaurs roamed the earth, we would receive a box of those cookies (in the shape of Sinterklaas!)along with other
"sweeties" from a relative in Amsterdam. I believe they were homemade, and I know they were delicious! That relative has long since passed, but the memory of those cookies remains!
Thanks...can't wait to try them!!
I am honored. Just be aware that this is not MY recipe. Mine is not as delicious as this one, which is as good as anything I've tasted.
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