Dutch Desserts Recipes

"A Dutch/Indonesian butter cake, best-known for being served with coffee after the ever-popular Dutch/Indonesian rijsttaffel. A good Spekkoek will have at least 12 layers or more. The heat of the grill browns the top of each layer, giving the cut cake its neat horizontal striped look. Spekkoek will keep moist and fresh in a cake tin or in the fridge..."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, cloves...

"This is Boterkoek (Dutch Buttercake) just like my Oma (grandma) used to make. She passed away over a year ago now and I really started to crave it. I hope you like it as much as I did growing up! :)"

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Ingredients: sliced almonds, eggs...

"This is a Dutch favorite, though I've seen them recently at Starbucks (horribly overpriced, of course). If you don't have a "pizzelle" iron, don't despair. There's a super-easy shortcut: just buy waffle cookies at your supermarket (and Trader Joe's has some really fantastic cookies for sure). That's what I ended up doing, so don't think I..."

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Ingredients: dark corn syrup, eggs...

"This recipe is for the traditional dutch apple pie, found on a Belgian website. It can be served both warm or cold, usually with whipped cream (but ice cream tastes great as well :D ). You will need a *springform* cake pan, or a lot of patience, or you will not be able to get the pie out! Because Dutch recipes generally use grams instead of cups..."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, eggs...

"Taken from a little community cookbook "Cooking on Clogs" that has some great family recipes compiled by Dutch ladies especially for when they pined for typical Dutch recipes and treats that were not available to them shop-bought when they emmigrated to other countries. These should be little tiny balls... about the size of the top joint of..."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, ground aniseed, milk...

"This is a Dutch recipe for a tart or pie crust. It's different, easy and delicious."

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Ingredients: powdered sugar, flour...

"An easy bar version of the Dutch cookie. From Taste of Home (February/March 2001)"

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Ingredients: eggs, sugar, flour...

"'Stoofpeertjes' is what they are called in dutch. Stewed cinnamon pears can be eaten warm or cold, served as dessert, but can also be served as a side dish."

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Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, cloves...

"Cruisers know that there’s something special about fresh baked cookies onboard a ship. This recipe by Chef Wolfgang Wasshausen from Holland America Cruise Line lets you bake amazing chocolate chip cookies right at home!"

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Ingredients: eggs, salt...

"My family loves funnel cakes...that is one reason they always want to visit the travelling carnivals in our area. This recipe makes a pretty good funnel cake and the ingredients are usually handy."

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Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, eggs...

"Unusual but nice!"

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Ingredients: demerara sugar, double cream...