Tag: St Nicolas Day

  • Happy St. Nicolas Day!

    Happy St. Nicolas Day!

    The mingling scents of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg and allspice fill the air as warm Speculatius (Saint Nicolas Cookies) bake in the oven. The tradition is that children put out their shoes the night before and Saint Nicolas puts cookies in them for morning. We could never go quite that far because our little four legged friends…

  • Happy Saint Nicolas Day

    The eastern European tradition is that on the evening of December 5th you put your shoes out for Saint Nicolas. In the morning on December 6th when you wake up your shoes will be filled with cookies. Every year I make these delicious spice cookies for St Nicolas Day, this year my kids found themselves…