Wooden speculaas cookie molds

That certainly seems like a nice souvenir. It would be helpful if you can place a link to the wooden mold you saw and liked. The reason I ask this is because the wooden speculaas molds I see in the shops here, are not shaped like a wooden spoon with a short handle. The ones I know are rectangular like this https://www.dille-kamille.nl/speculaasplankje-met-twee-figuren-44191995.html?channable=40f857736b75003434313931393935df&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI46S14JathgMVkZaDBx3NACfcEAQYASABEgJrtPD_BwE

I concur with Dutch_traveller that these rectangular speculaasplankjes are the ones traditionally (still being) used. You can just walk into a cooking shop like Dille&Kamille to find these.

There is a difference between speculaas and speculoos.
Belgian speculoos includes fewer spices than Dutch speculaas, as the spices at the time were much more expensive to import to Belgium than to the Netherlands. The names speculaas and speculoos are sometimes used interchangeably in Flanders.

II believe to remember speculoos cookies were offered on domestic US flights by a specific airline.

I think Delta still offers cookies, but maybe without the European name. Note that Lotus-brand products (cookies and churned cookie spread) are widely available at some US supermarket chains. I also saw gin with this flavor, maybe in Amsterdam. There is also a Monin coffee/beverage syrup.

Misspelled it in the title, I guess it’s Speculaas. This is what I’m looking for, scroll down to #6:

https://emilyembarks.com/amsterdam-souvenirs/

The cookies in the photo of #6 are not speculaas cookies. Speculaas cookies are never round and they are a much darker shade of brown. Speculaas also never has something sprinkled on it.
Speculaas cookies traditionally come in shapes that depict something; a windmill, a gabled house, a farmer etc etc.
See here for the shape and color of speculaas cookies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculaas
To be honest, I’m not even sure the cookies are Dutch cookies. I certainly have never seen them anywhere and I know about my cookies! :-)
So because the cookies aren’t speculaas, the spoon shaped mold isn’t a mold for speculaas.

In my earlier post I gave you a link to how a speculaas mold looks like. The shop in question that sells these speculaas molds, is called Dille&Kamille. They have 3 shops in Amsterdam. The shop at Nieuwendijk 16-18 is very close to the central train station.
If that’s not near you, you can find other locations of Dille&Kamille via Google Maps.

https://www.dille-kamille.com/kitchen/baking/speculaas-cookie-moulds/

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Interestingly, when you click on the link in the article, a rectangular mould is displayed, similar to the one Dutch_traveler shared. I guess this picture with the round shape and a handle may have been a little bit of artistic freedom. I too have never seen speculaaskoekjes having a round shape like the one in that picture. The traditional moulds still can be a nice souvenir.

As mentioned, most kitchen shops will have these moulds on stock.

To Barney_NL - I think you are clicking on a link someone else added in their reply. If you click on the link I added to my original post/question and scroll down to #6, I’m looking for the item shown in the photo below that.

I guess I didn’t explain myself well enough, because what I was trying to say is that the item shown in the photo at #6 is not a mold for speculaas and the round cookies in the photo are not speculaas cookies.
I don’t know what kind of mold it is, because I’ve never seen it in a cooking utensils shop in the Netherlands. I therefore have no idea where you can buy it here.

You should decide what it is you want; a mold for speculaas or the same mold as shown in the photo. If it’s the speculaas mold, check out any cooking utensils shop in The Netherlands and pick one up. For instance at Dille&Kamille. If it’s the round coookie mold you want, I suggest you to contact the website to find out what kind of cookie mold is shown in the photo and ask where you can buy one.

@OP. In the article https://emilyembarks.com/amsterdam-souvenirs/, under picture #6 it mentions: "If not, check them out online! You can also find them from authentic Dutch sellers so don’t fret if you don’t find any on the streets of Amsterdam. Here is a great one by Artisans Boutique!" with a link to https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N5N5RHZ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=emilyembarks-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07N5N5RHZ&linkId=442b825d050b428dc03676bf380620e8 when you hoover over Artisans Boutique. This link shows a rectangular mould, which I was referring to.

Unfortunately, I have not seen similar moulds as in picture #6 in relation to (making) speculaas. However, it did remind me of traditional cookies from the Turkish Hatay area and northwest Middle East: https://ozlemsturkishtable.com/2014/06/antakyas-kombe-cookie-with-walnuts-three-generations-baking-together/, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/339177415681324654/ or https://www.indigotraders.com/products/mamoul-cookie-mold.

Not only Dille & Kamille sells “speculaasplanken” , for a bit more variety you can look at these online shops too:

https://www.weekendbakery.com/webshop/en/16-speculaas-molds-more

https://www.baktotaal.nl/decoreer-gereedschappen/relief-matten-en-sjablonen/speculaasplanken
You can select English, but in Dutch you will get a complete overview.