{"id":2935,"date":"2016-11-09T06:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T11:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2016-11-09T06:51:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T11:51:25","slug":"speculaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/speculaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculaas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don’t these cookies look delicious?<\/strong> Have you ever eaten these before?<\/strong> I was browsing through my King Arthur flour catalog and saw these advertised. I did\u00a0a little research about these cookies and discovered the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s a shortcrust-type cookie made with different spices.<\/li>\n
  2. Speculaas are eaten on Saint Nicolas Day (December 6th) in the Netherlands and Belgium. They are eaten in Germany around Christmas time.<\/li>\n
  3. They usually have some image or figure stamped on the front and the back is flat.<\/li>\n
  4. The dough can be stored overnight so that the spices can permeate the dough, giving it a richer spicy flavor.<\/li>\n
  5. Sometimes speculaas contain slivered almonds.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I must admit, I’ve never made these before. However, I believe I’ve eaten a store-bought version of this cookie. Perhaps I will make some this Christmas! If I do, I’ll be sure to post a mouth-watering picture!<\/p>\n

    So, have you ever eaten these cookies? If so, do you enjoy them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If you like cookies, then you should try my Christmas novella Loving Luke<\/a>! It’s only 99 cents and mentions lots of sweet Christmas treats for your palate!<\/strong> \"Winter<\/p>\n

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        Don’t these cookies look delicious? Have you ever eaten these before? I was browsing through my King Arthur flour catalog and saw these advertised. I did\u00a0a little research about these cookies and discovered the following: It’s a shortcrust-type cookie made with different spices. Speculaas are eaten on Saint Nicolas Day (December 6th) in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-recipes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-Ll","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}