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Traditionally, speculaas biscuits are made in The Netherlands using wooden molds. They are the mirror image of the carved wooden moulds they are shaped in.

What to do with the wooden mold, how to make the vandotsch speculaas spiced dough, how to get the dough out of the molds and how to bake your speculaas biscuits or cookies. All your questions are answered here, and more.

After requests from several customers we now offer several different types of wooden molds to make authentic Dutch speculaas biscuits, including a small windmill mould, and a man and woman mold.

Amazingly, I have found somebody who still manufactures wooden molds that are used to make authentic speculaas biscuits with Dutch themes.

Speculaas almond and buckwheat cake with spiced white chocolate mascarpone,
macerated blackberries and caramelised almonds.

I love a good spice mix, but it is not always easy to find one that packs as much punch as yours does. It taste divine!

April Harris' Speculaas Snickerdoodle Cookie recipe is the result of the combination of her late mom’s Snickerdoodle recipe with vandotsch speculaas spice mix.

A Snickerdoodle is a type of cookie made with butter or oil, sugar, and flour rolled traditionally in cinnamon sugar.

After several months and numerous tasting sessions, I finally succeeded in creating a speculaas biscuit that evoked all the memories from my childhood.

Here is the only speculaas biscuit recipe that you will ever need! It's probably the simplest speculaas biscuit recipe around. Obviously it includes vandotsch speculaas mix.

I am very fortunate that 2012 Great British Bake Off finalist Brendan Lynch has made a speculaas spiced Bundt cake with vandotsch speculaas spice mix.

Brendan’s Spiced Bundt Apple Cake is a longstanding favourite recipe that both family, friends and neighbours frequently ‘request’. So he was keen to try out our spice mix by making his Bundt cake with vandotsch speculaas spiced infused apples.

A fragrant burst of cinnamon, accompanied with fiery ginger notes and earthy cloves, among other secret spices that make me want to use vandotsch speculaas spice in pretty much everything I now bake

Speculaas fruit bread recipe from Anne: a passionate home cook who loves to create lots of mess but hates the washing up afterwards.

Very easy one in a bowl type speculaas gluten free banana bread recipe from Karen. Her second gluten free recipe with vandotsch speculaas spice.

Manju Malhi is a British-born chef and food writer. Manju has come up with her own self-styled cross-over "Brit-Indi" style of food, which mixes Indian and Western influences.

I am very proud to present Manju Malhi speculaas biscuits recipe.

Speculaas biscuits are a traditional Dutch biscuit. Speculaas Windmill biscuits are world renowned. But why are they so special?

In the Netherlands, almost all speculaas biscuits are made from white (wheat) flour, brown sugar, butter and a speculaas spice mix that include between five to nine different spices. Other 'spicy' biscuits such as speculoos biscuits contains one or only a few spices.