Speculaas (Dutch: speculaas, pronounced [speːkyˈlaːs], French: spéculoos, [spekylos], German: Spekulatius) is a type of spiced shortcrust biscuit[1] baked with speculaas spices.

Speculaas

Speculaas: ship, farmhouse, elephant, horse
Alternative names	Windmill cookies
Type	Shortbread cookie, Biscuit
Place of origin	Belgium/Netherlands/Rhineland
Main ingredients	Flour, sugar, butter, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg
Cookbook: Speculaas   Media: Speculaas

Speculaas is usually flat in the shape of a picture and is especially popular around the feast of St. Nicholas and during the time of Advent. The oldest sources on speculaas also mention weddings and fairs. In recent decades, however, it has become normal to eat Speculaas all year round, especially with coffee or tea, or with ice cream.

Speculaas is mainly made and eaten in Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as in the German Westphalia and Rhineland, Luxembourg and northern France. It can also be found in Indonesia where they are known as spekulaas or spekulaaskoekjes, and usually served at Christmas or on other special occasions.[2]

See also

• Cookie butter
• Ginger biscuit
• Kruidnoten, a thicker, harder biscuit made without molds with the same ingredients
• Springerle, a thicker, anise-flavoured, moulded Christmas biscuit from Germany

References

This dessert-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

На других языках

[ru] Спекулос