One of my birthday presents this year was a little biscuit stamp from the Søstrene Grene shop that opened in our town earlier this year.
They come in different patterns, mine is the middle one. I made the Nigella Speculaas recipe, which involves naking up your own spice mix first... I need to buy ground cardamom and allspice to make it properly, but I substituted mixed spice which included both of them.
I was pleasantly surprised that the stamp worked so well. The white dust on the biscuits is excess flour, I used less in later batches. The biscuits came out well too.
Speculaas (the Dutch version, Speculoos is a little different and comes from Belgium) is one of the flavours that means 'Christmas' to me.
I know what's going to happen; I shall carry on moseying along thinking 'Christmas is ages away, plenty of time yet' and then all of a sudden it will be upon us and I will be posting my Christmas cards on Boxing Day... it has been known. For several years I used to alternate between starting at the back and the front of the address book so at least people received cards every other year.
Voces8 again; 'the Angel Gabriel to Mary Came'
The Speculaas look lovely and I imagine how good they smell and taste. The little stamp leaves such a pretty pattern.
ReplyDeleteI'm very pleased with how they came out 😊
DeleteI was even older when I first heard this carol on Maddie Pryor and the Carnival Band's ' A Tapestry of Carols', and have loved it ever since.
ReplyDeleteAh..... Maddy Prior - what a voice. We've got that cd... comes out every Christmas.
DeleteI learn so much from other people's blogs! The Speculaas are so attractive.
ReplyDeleteMe too.... that's why I spend so much time on them!
DeleteIt must be fun decideing which stamp to use! They do look delicious.
ReplyDeleteI've only got the oak leaves....so far!
DeleteThe biscuit stamp looks lovely.
ReplyDeleteI have barely started anything Christmasy - just not in the mood.
I'm sort of in the mood, but not getting anything done
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