Dutch Trade - Speculaas Spice Blend

Dutch Trade is Boston Spice's speculaas spice blend for cookies, cakes, and more. Bold notes of nutmeg, cardamom, cloves, ginger, and mace meet a subtle kick of white pepper. Bring a little Dutch-inspired baking to your kitchen, no trip to the Netherlands required.

What to make with Dutch Trade

• Cookies and baking: Try it in speculaas cookies, cakes, cupcakes, Danish pastries, or pies.
• Breakfast: Mix it into pancake or waffle batter, or stir it into syrup. How about French Toast? You bet!
• Drinks: Add a pinch to coffee or hot chocolate, or blend it into smoothies and protein shakes.
• Sweet treats: Try it in spiced nuts, fudge, homemade ice cream, or rice crispy marshmallow treats.

That's downright “Spectaculaas!”

In Dutch, Speculaas is also known as Speculaaskruiden. In Germany, Spekulatius, is traditional in Westphalia and the Rhineland. The speculaas cookie is thin, crunchy, and has a caramelized taste. Mostly baked around St Nicholas's Day and Christmas in Europe. Here at Boston Spice, you can get this tasty spice blend any time of year.

Traditional speculaas cookies are pressed into a wooden speculaas mold with an image of some sort carved into the mold. But these cookies can be baked without having the wooden mold. Use a basic ring mold or a shaped mold to cut the dough.  

Also, try some in coffee, hot chocolate, spiced nuts, pies, cakes, fudge, homemade ice cream, smoothies, protein shakes, corn bread, and a whole lot more. 

Click here for our "Dutch Trade" speculaas cookie recipe

The Dutch wanted to remain neutral throughout the American Revolutionary War with England. The Dutch merchants could easily export their goods to the American colonies as long as the British did not see the Netherlands as a threat. The American Patriots did receive large amounts of gunpowder, arm, and other goods from the Netherlands during the fight for Independence.

In 1780, John Adams spent most of his time trying to build a network of relations in the Netherlands and procure a loan from the Dutch government to help the American cause. After the surrender of British General Cornwallis at Yorktown, Adams, still in the Netherlands, purchased a large house in "The Hague" which was to become the first embassy in American History.

Ingredients: cinnamon, aniseed, ginger, coriander, cardamom, nutmeg, mace, allspice, cloves, white pepper

Allergen Notice:
Packaged on equipment that also works with peanuts, tree nuts, soy, and wheat. Our facilities store packaged tree nuts, soy, and dairy items in common areas.