Sinterklaas Food Traditions
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Sinterklaas food traditions. The most iconic of the sinterklaas sweets are the pepernoten. But these cookies actually come in a variety of shapes such as figurines angels and animals. They are often baked into festive shapes or made to resemble objects that are traditionally associated with the netherlands such as windmills or clogs.
Zwarte piets history is cloudy. You may also know them as biscoff cookies. Because commercial versions are often windmill shaped they are also known as windmill cookies abroad.
Food is an important part of sinterklaas and the giving of speculaas spiced biscuits often in the form of the saint dates back centuries. This word is in fact used for two types of candy. While the rest of the world knows december for the celebration of christmas we here in the netherlands have our own way of fooling our kids during the.
These delicious dutch cinnamon ginger cookies are traditionally eaten at sinterklaas. The sale of sinterklaas goodies seems to start earlier every year and if you have not got your chocolate letters in yet you will find you are left with a choice of s or p for sint and piet. The kruidnoot a small drop made from speculaas herbs is also often called pepernoot.
A traditional zwarte piet and sinterklaas. The true pepernoot is a chewy little block made with ingredients like aniseed rye dough and brown sugar. But to help you avoid stress over sinterklaas heres our unofficial but absolutely excellent guide to pakjesavond and sinterklaas.