St nicholas cookies

Speculaas, St. Nicholas cookies, Windmill cookies — call them what you may, you MUST call them good. They're a spiced, shortbread biscuit. A...

Who is Saint Nicholas, and why is he handing out gifts on December 6th? Doesn’t he know that Christmas is December 25th? And what about that thing he’s got for wooden shoes? While it might be easy to assume that the image of jolly old Saint Nick was invented, or at least perpetuated by the Coca-Cola Company, the origins of the miraculous giver of gifts reach back to Europe and the Netherlands in the Middle Ages. The real-life Saint Nicholas was born in Asia Minor and lived in the late third…

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I printed this recipe a couple years ago after seeing it shared by Amy Heyd, author of Saints at the Dinner Table . I just loved the idea,...

How to make St. Nicholas' Day Decorated Cookies with step-by-step photos and links to no-fail cut-out cookies and royal icing recipes.

Hymn to Saint Nicholas O who love Nicholas the saintly, O who serve Nicholas the saintly, Him will Nicholas receive, ...

This year I decided to come up with an alternative to the usual Saint Nicholas Chocolates that I usually make each year . I prefer to...

These Alsatian brioches appeared in the 15th century. They are linked to the celebration of St Nicholas and are traditionally offered to children who have been good (sounds familiar? That is because ol’ St Nick was the original Santa Claus). Originally, Mannele had other shapes (horses, bunnies, chicken, etc…) but gradually took a more human form, representing St Nicholas or one of the resurrected children.