Baking for St. Nicolaas fills the house with an aroma of speculaas spices. These muffins are filled with figs and spices. They are rich in minerals since figs and molasses are a good source of calcium and iron.
1 1/3 cup white spelt flour
1/2 cup + 2 tbl whole spelt flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp speculaas spices
1 tsp grounded anise
1 tsp gingerbread spice
2 tbl currants
5 dryed figs (about 90 gram)
1 tbl molasses
1/4 cup organic canola oil
1 tsp applecider vinegar
1/2 cup soymilk, or other vegan milk
1/3 cup brown rice syrup
Preheat the oven to 180 C/ 356 F
Cut the dryed figs in small pieces. Place them together with the currants in a bowl. Pour the soymilk in the bowl and set aside so that the fruit softens.
Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Pour all the remaining wet ingredients in the bowl of softened fruit and mix together the ingredients. Incorporate the wet ingredients plus the fruit into the bowl of dry ingredients. Use a spatula to mix all the ingredients together.
Spoon the batter into a muffin form. The cups should be greased beforehand with canola oil.
Bake the muffins for 25 minutes.
Here in Holland we just celebrated St. Nicolaas. You can compare it to celebrating Christmas, so it's a big feast in Holland. We spend the day doing a lot of baking and playing with the children. I also like to spend the day doing handicraft with the children. This year I made these paper planes for Luka:
My daughter has her own project, she's making a curtain from crochet flowers:
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