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Learn to make this traditional holiday bread, typically served at Christmas time. This easy stollen recipe creates two beautiful loaves filled with raisins, candied orange peel, hazelnuts, and of course the “log” of almond paste, which we make from scratch.

Learn how to make this traditional Dutch Sinterklaas cookie, Taai taai. A chewy honey spice cookie. This cookie has a lovely warming flavor, with anise, the speculaas spices, and of course the honey. You need to plan ahead for these cookies, as you make a starter dough from rye flour that needs to sit and rest for at least one day. After you’ve made the starter dough, this is a great cookie to make together with your kids!

Learn to make this delicious Dutch Pastry that we eat at Sinterklaas and Christmas. I goes by many different Dutch names: banket, banketstaaf, amandelstaaf, or boterletter! All of those indicate that this is a buttery, flaky pastry filled with delicious almond. We make that almond paste from scratch but use store-bought puff pastry.

Learn to make my speculaaskruiden, a mix of different spices that are essential for some of the Netherlands’ most famous cookies: speculaas (or speculoos). You will also use these in making kruidnootjes, taaitaai and many other fall/winter favorites!

Learn to make these kruidnootjes, small speculaas treats that are typically enjoyed during Sinterklaas in The Netherlands. The spice mixture added to these small speculoos cookies gives them such a fantastic flavor and aroma! When you’re baking these, it will fill your kitchen with such a great smell, that you probably won’t be able to wait until they’re completely cooled!