The Best Dutch Desserts To Try in AMSTERDAM

butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil is lower in saturated fat.

sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: brown sugar

Honey is a natural sweetener.

Visit Amsterdam to try traditional Dutch desserts.

Try Dutch mini pancakes (poffertjes) made with yeast and buckwheat flour, baked in a special pan.

Enjoy poffertjes with icing sugar and a piece of butter.

Sample Dutch apple pie, made with apples, sugar, and cinnamon, possibly including raisins or almond paste, served with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Visit restaurant Pindakaas for the best apple pie in Amsterdam.

Try stroopwafels, made from two layers of baked dough with caramel syrup filling.

Find fresh stroopwafels at the Albert Cuyp market from the stall called Origin Waffles.

If Origin Waffles is closed, visit the stall called Duran's for stroopwafels.

Taste the local dessert called tompouce, which consists of two layers of puff pastry with pink icing on top.

Visit patisserie Holtkamp for the best tompouce, but avoid Sundays when most bakeries are closed.

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