Homemade Speculaas Spice Mix Recipe

Homemade Speculaas Spice Mix Recipe

If the taste of Biscoff cookies is your thing, then you’re going to love the warm festive flavours of my homemade Speculaas Spice Mix recipe. It’s a great mix to use in muffins and cakes, and especially delicious in my Speculaas Sugar Cookies for Christmas!  Use it for the holidays, when you’re in a festive mood, or just any time of year!

I first fell in love with Speculaas biscuits on a trip to the Netherlands a few years ago.  I knew Biscoff cookies were a thing, but I never really knew the background of them.  Speculaas or Speculoos are a traditional Dutch cookie, usually made in the shape of a windmill, using wooden moulds or a windmill cookie cutter.  It’s a simple cookie recipe that gets it’s flavour mostly from an earthy warm spice mix.  It’s a traditional recipe that’s usually made for St Nicholas Day, so while I was on holidays there, I purchased a Speculaas cookie kit.  It came with a wooden mould, a recipe card and a bag of spices, but I wanted to keep making my own Speculaas cookies, so I had to come up with my own spice mix.  All natural, no artificial flavours in sight….here’s my homemade Speculaas Spice Mix.  I hope you find lots of ways to enjoy it!

Ingredients

• Lemon rind
• Cinnamon
• Nutmeg
• Ground  coriander
• Ground cloves
• Ginger
• Cardamom or Cardamon

Substitutions and Additions

• Orange rind instead of lemon, orange zest will give this spice mix a slightly warmer flavour
• No cardamom?  Try using allspice instead

How to use Speculaas Spice Mix

• Add it to muffins -add some spicy warmth to your choc chip muffins!
• Stir it through your porridge -these delicious warm flavours would be perfect in my Apple Pie Porridge!
• Hot chocolate -add a little homemade Speculaas Spice Mix to your hot chocolate this holiday season for a super festive vibe.
• Make it for gifting -pop your spice blend into glass jars and add a little tag, along with a recipe card for my Speculaas Sugar Cookies.  Adding a little cookie cutter would make this a gorgeous gift for your favourite foodie!
• Stir it through my French Vanilla Ice Cream and add some biscoff chunks for a Christmas dessert
• In your favourite baked goods – anywhere you’d normally use a pumpkin spice or gingerbread spice, like in my Gingerbread Truffles

Storage

• Spice jar -simply add these spices to a clean jar or airtight container, pop on the lid and you’re good to go!  
• Shelf life -this Speculaas Spice Mix will last as long as the spices you’ve used, just keep it at room temperature, where you’d normally keep your other spices

I hope you enjoy this Homemade Speculaas Spice Mix, filled with all of my favourite spices for holiday baking.  And if you make this recipe, please take a minute to leave a rating and/or review -I’d really appreciate it!

Speculaas Spice Mix Recipe

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Ingredients

  

• 1 tsp finely zested lemon rind
• 2 tsp cinnamon powder
• ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
• ¼ tsp ground coriander
• ¼ tsp ground cloves
• ⅛ tsp ginger powder
• ⅛ tsp cardomom powder or cardamon powder

Instructions

 

• Place all ingredients into a glass jar with a tight fitting lid, or airtight container
• Shake to combine
• Store at room temperature and use as required

Notes

• This homemade Speculaas Spice Mix will keep as long as the shelf life of the spices you've used.
• Multiply the quantities and make as Christmas gifts -perfect to use in my Speculaas Sugar Cookies and Gingerbread Truffles

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