How to make speculaas slabs

Ingredients:
1 pack Koopmans Mix for Speculaas
150 Gram butter or margarine
1 egg
Almonds

Preparations:
Heat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius (convection oven 150 degrees)
Stir the butter in a bowl until soft, then add the mix and half the egg.
Mix together with mixer or by hand and place in refrigerator for a few minutes
Grease baking tray and roll out dough until 1 cm thick.
Cut into pieces of 8 x 8 cm
Put them on baking tray and cover lightly with egg.
Decorate with almonds and cover with rest of egg.
Bake in middle of oven for 40 minutes.
 
Enjoy!

How to make speculaas dolls

Ingredients

200 gram plain flour
100 gram caster sugar
a little salt
3 teaspoons speculaas-spices
2 tablespoons milk
125 gram cold butter
Flour (for dusting of the mould)

Sift the flour with the sugar, salt and spices into a large bowl.Then add the milk.
Take a knife, add the butter into the mixture and and mix while cutting.
If you use a mixer make sure to use the hooks.
Take the dough, put it in foil (make sure that there is no air in when you close the foil) and put in fridge for a few hours (preferably a whole day)
Pre-heat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius.

Preparation
Sprinkle flour in the speculaas moulds. 

Take the dough out of the fridge.
Press an amount of dough in the speculaas shapes and cut away the excess dough with a very sharp knife.

Tap the dough out of the moulds,
(This is not east, especially with new moulds, they need a bit of help)

Place them on the baking tray.
Bake for 20 minutes (depending on your oven) until brown and ready.
Keep a close eye on the speculaas during the later stage of the baking, because you don’t want your speculaas be too dark, (you will taste and smell it, burned sugar!)

Take them out and leave the speculaas on the baking tray for a few minutes to firm up. 

And Enjoy !!

Sinterklaas goodies have arrived

It is that time of the year again:
ALL Sinterklaas goodies are in !As always we'll have everything for you need for the Sinterklaas celebrations.

What do we have in our online shop?

* Chocolate letters come in Milk, Dark, and White.
* Belga mega bag filled with sweets and sinterklaas items
* Marsepein rookworst, loafs, potatoes and fruit
* Roomboter amandelstaven (Christmas almond logs)
* DIY mix for Taai Taai
* Koopmans Oliebollen, Appel beignets and Speculaas mix
* Kruidnoten (different brands and sizes) and Strooigoed
* Frisian pepernoten* Oud-Hollandse pepernoten (anise flavoured)
* Taai taai dolls and large single doll
* Speculaas in all shapes and sizes: filled, slabs and more
* Schuttelaar Suikergoed and Sint schuimpjes
* Chocolate covered kruidnoten: mixed, dark, milk and truffle
* Markant almond speculaas, large pack with 400 gram
* Speculaas planken (molds) in different sizes
* Speculaas spices

Sinterklaas and Christmas products are in stock

It's that time of the year again,  time for all the nice Dutch products we have for you.

Our large range includes:
Bolletje kruidnoten in 2 sizes
Chocolate letters in milk, dark and white chocolate
Marzipan, Rum, Apple and Cranberry stollen

Markant Strooigoed (kruidnoten with mixed sweets)
Marzipan sausage and potatoes (your complete dinner ready)
Bolletje Chocolate covered kruidnoten
Kaneelsterren (cinnamon biscuits)

 

Koopmans Oliebollen and Appelbeignets mixes
van Gilse poedersuiker
Markant kruidnoten

and a whole range of non food items, such as wrapping-paper, songbooks, stickers, colouring books and more

Again some new products came in.

There is no stopping us, new stock already arrived.
Check it out:

New products are in.

New products are in.

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Sour sticks, cinnamon sticks, licorice sticks, we have them all

If you like the famous candy sticks, we have 6 different varieties
(from Holland Foodz - Rens Joosen) for you in stock:

Hard cinnamon sticks
Sour sticks
Licorice sticks
Speculaas sticks
Soft powdered cinnamon sticks
Cherry sticks

Check it out on:
http://dutchstore.com.au/Dutch-sweets

How to make speculaas dolls with a speculaas mold.

Speculaas dolls

Ingredients

200 gram plain flour100 gram caster sugara little salt3 teaspoons speculaas-spices2 tablespoons milk125 gram cold butterflour for dusting the mold
Sift the flour with the sugar, salt and spices into a large bowl.
Then add the milk. Take a knife, add the butter into the mixture and and mix while cutting.
If you use a mixer make sure to use the hooks.
Take the dough, put it in foil (make sure that there is no air in when you close the foil) and put in fridge for a few hours (preferably a whole day)
Pre heat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius
Take the dough out of the fridge. 
Press an amount of dough in the speculaas shapes and cut away the excess dough with a very sharp knife. 
Tap the shapes out of the molds (this is NOT easy, esp. with new molds, they need a bit of help)  

Keep a close eye on the speculaas during the later stage of the baking, because you don’t want your speculaas be too dark, (you will taste and smell it, burned sugar!). 
Transfer them to cool on a rack.

Preparation

Sprinkle flour in the speculaas molds. 

 

Place  them on the baking tray.

Bake for 20 minutes (depending on your oven) until brown and ready.

Take them out and leave the speculaas on the baking tray for a few minutes to firm up. 

And Enjoy !!

Speculoos or Speculaas?

Is it Speculoos or is it Speculaas?

It is actually the same:
Speculoos is the Flemish name for Speculaas. The spread we sell is actually called Speculoos because it originates from Belgium. It is a spread made of biscuits. It is also known as cookie butter or Biscoff spread.
The biscuits we sell are called Speculaas because they are made in Holland.
Speculoos Pasta with caramelized biscuits, is a delicious spread, ideal for those who want something different for breakfast or lunch.
The result is amazing: on bread or toasts at breakfast; this spread is distinctive in taste, a pleasure for Speculaas lovers.
Replaces the well known speculaas biscuit on a sandwich.

Speculoos contains good, unsaturated fats, is rich in Omega 3 and does not contain artificial flavors, colors or preservatives, and most of all: is really delicious.