The Dutch love desserts and sweet foods in general. They like sweet breads and cakes for breakfast as well as for dessert. One of the most famous desserts in the Netherlands is "eierkoeken" which means egg cakes. These make a great snack at any time of the day. If you like baking, you might like to make one of the following recipes.
Fluffy Egg Cakes
To make egg cakes you first need to preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Beat four eggs with seven ounces of white sugar until the sugar dissolves. If the sugar does not dissolve, you can add a little warm water. Add some vanilla sugar or vanilla extract for flavoring, and then add twelve ounces of all purpose flour and a teaspoon of baking powder.
The dough needs to be the right texture for piping. If it is too firm, you can add some warm water. Pipe little round shapes on a baking paper-lined cookie sheet and dust them with powdered sugar. Bake them for about eighteen minutes or until they are cooked, then let them cool.
Beautiful Butter Cake
This wonderful dish, which is known as "boterkoek" in the Netherlands is simple to make and well loved all over the country. You will need a greased and flour-dusted, eight inch round pan to bake it. Combine two cups of all purpose flour with two thirds of a cup of sugar and a teaspoon of baking powder, and then cut in eight ounces of unsalted butter. The butter should not be too soft or hard so take it out of the refrigerator about an hour before using it.
Add a teaspoon of almond extract, an egg yolk, and a pinch of salt and mix well. Press the dough down into the prepared pan and brush half an egg white over the top. You can decorate the top of the mixture with slivered almonds if you want to. Bake it for thirty five minutes at 350 degrees F and let it cool before serving.
The Best Dutch Apple Cake Recipe
This is a very easy recipe to make and you will love its moist texture and amazing apple flavor. Peel and cut two apples into eighths. Sift a cup and a half of baking powder with half a teaspoon of salt and three and a half teaspoons of baking powder. Stir in four tablespoons of white sugar and cut in quarter of a cup of butter.
Combine a beaten egg with three quarters of a cup of milk and add this to the flour mixture. Transfer the batter to a greased eight inch square tin and press the apple wedges partly into it. Combine half a teaspoon of cinnamon with two tablespoons of sugar and sprinkle this over the top. Bake it for half an hour at 425 degrees F.
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