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Speculaas (, , , , ) is a type of spiced
shortcrust Shortcrust pastry is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche, pie, or (in the British English sense) flan. Shortcrust pastry can be used to make both sweet and savory pies such as apple pie, quiche, lemon meringue or chicke ...
biscuit A biscuit is a flour-based baked and shaped food product. In most countries biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also be ...
baked with speculaas spices. 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 Advent is a Christian season of preparation for the Nativity of Christ at Christmas. It is the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity. The name was adopted from Latin "coming; arrival", translating Greek ''parousia''. In ...
. 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 it is known as ''spekulaas'' or ''spekulaaskoekjes'', and usually served at Christmas or on other special occasions.


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Cookie butter Cookie butter (Dutch: ''speculoospasta'', Danish: ''trøffelmasse'') is a food paste made primarily from speculoos cookie crumbs (such as Biscoff in the United States and United Kingdom), fat (such as vegetable oil, condensed milk or butter), ...
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Ginger biscuit A gingersnap, ginger snap, ginger nut, or ginger biscuit is a biscuit flavored with ginger. Ginger snaps are flavored with powdered ginger and a variety of other spices, most commonly cinnamon, molasses and clove. There are many recipes. The bri ...
* Kruidnoten, a thicker, harder biscuit made without molds with the same ingredients * Springerle, a thicker, anise-flavoured, moulded Christmas biscuit from Germany


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