Wanna whip up some delicious Dutch desserts? Here the recipes
It’s winter and we’re allowed to carbo-load, right? A few extra calories on the weekends wont do us any harm, we already have the extra lockdown load.
So why not try out these amazing Dutch dessert recipes and bring the Netherlands into your own home thanks to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
1. Poffertjes
the Dutch pancake
Ingredients
- 150g buckwheat flour
- 100g all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons caster sugar
- 350ml milk
- Pinch of salt
- 7g packet dry yeast
- 1 egg beaten
- 2 tablespoons oil for greasing pan
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- Icing sugar for dusting
Method
- Heat the milk in a saucepan to warm.
- Remove from the heat and mix in the caster sugar and the yeast.
- Set the pan aside for 5 – 10 minutes during which time the mixture will become foamy.
- Combine the flour and salt in a large mixing bowl and slowly add the yeast mixture, then the egg, to the flour and whisk until you have a smooth batter.
- Cover the bowl with a damp tea towel and allow it to rest for an hour, by which time it should have doubled in size.
- To make the pancakes pour the batter into a large jug and pour small quantities into a pan, you may prefer to use a tablespoon to spoon out the mixture.
- Heat a saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Grease the pan with some oil and spoon in a small amount of pancake batter at a time.
- The pancakes should be approximately 4cm in diameter, cook quickly on both sides and remove to a paper towel on a warm plate until you have made all the pancakes and are ready to serve.
- Once all the pancakes have been made transfer onto serving plates, drizzle with melted butter and dust with icing sugar.
- Serve immediately.
2. Stroopwafels
Netherlands interpretation of the humble waffle
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ⅛ cups butter, melted
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 2 sachets of active dry yeast
- ¼ cup warm milk
- 1 egg
- 1 ½ cups molasses
- 1 ⅓ cups packed brown sugar
- ⅓ cup butter
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Method
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, melted butter, sugar, yeast, milk and egg.
- When the dough becomes too stiff to stir, turn out onto a floured surface and knead by hand for a few minutes.
- Set aside to rise for 45 minutes.
- To make the filling, heat the molasses, brown sugar, remaining butter and cinnamon in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Stir to blend, and set aside.
- Preheat a pizzelle iron.
- Knead the dough briefly, and divide the dough into 1cm balls, or a size compatible with your pizzelle iron pattern.
- Press the balls in the preheated iron, and cook until the iron stops releasing steam, or until the waffles are golden brown.
- Carefully remove with a knife or spatula, and split in half horizontally (like pocket bread) while they are still warm.
- Don’t wait too long, otherwise they will break.
- Spread filling on the insides, and put the halves back together.
3. Tompouce
mille-feuille. the Dutch way
Ingredients
For the pastry cream:
- 2 cups of (soy) milk
- 1 vanilla bean
- 3/4 cup of sugar
- 4 egg yolks (save the egg whites for the icing!)
- 2 Tbsp flour
- 1 envelope gelatine
For the crispy layers:
- 2 square sheets of puff pastry
For the royal icing:
- 1 egg white
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups of powdered sugar
if desired, use some colourful sprinkles
Method
- Get a sauce-pan and add the milk.
- Slice the vanilla bean open lengthwise with a knife and scrape the seeds and add the seeds to the milk and stir well.
- Add half of the sugar to the milk and bring to a boil.
- Whisk the other half of the sugar with the egg yolks in a bowl.
- Stir in the flour and pour a dash of warm milk to the egg yolk mixture, mix well and put it all in the (soft) boiling milk.
- Bring back to a boil and let it softly boil for 3 minutes.
- Turn off the stove and stir the gelatine in and pour the creamy mixture in a square dish, cover with plastic and let it cool off in the fridge for 2-3 hours.
- In the meantime, start with the puff pastry: first let them thaw on the counter for about 30 minutes.
- Unfold them and prick them all over with a fork.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C and bake the pastry for 20 minutes while you press down the dough every 5 minutes with a clean towel.
- This stops the dough from puffing up too much.
- After 20 minutes bring down the temperature to 150°C and bake another 10 minutes.
- Take the pasty out the oven, cut each sheet in 16 equal squares (so 32 in total) while they’re still hot and let them cool on a rack.
- Once cooled, you can start making the royal icing.
- In a large bowl combine the egg white with the vanilla extract until frothy.
- Gradually add the powdered sugar and mix on low speed until the sugar is incorporated and the mixture is shiny.
- Turn the speed up to high and beat until the mixture forms stiff, glossy peaks (this takes approximately 5 to 7 minutes).
- Pair the puff pastry squares in top and bottom layers and decorate the top squares with the icing.
- Decorate them with the sprinkles immediately.
- Now take the pastry cream out of the fridge, it should be a firm mixture, and transfer to a pastry bag or -again- use a storage bag with one of the corners cut out.
- Squirt the pastry cream on the bottom layer of the puff pastry.
- The cream layer should be around 2,5cm high.
- Finally, transfer the top icing layer onto the cream layer and you’re done.
