Hagelslag, rather different to sprinkles I've had anywhere else. They are far more chocolate tasting, less sugary.
I brought some back with me on a trip to Amsterdam, and I'm now going to bring back a few boxes each time I go!
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Buttered toast with sprinkles? Sounds like something a 5 year old invent - sounds delicious though. Buttered toast is already pretty good
As I understand it, the bread isn't toasted. It's literally butter on plain white bread with chocolate sprinkles
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wetsoggybread is right, we should toast the sprinkles!
It probably was, but one notable feature of most 5 year olds (in the last 100 years) is that they grow up.
We had this as kids when we visited. The bnb hosts were shocked we, kids, had never had it. And they were delighted we loved it.
And mother made sure we knew we'd never have it at home XD
And yet, frozen waffles with chocolate chips was fine at home...
Untoasted bread, cold butter, and sweet candy sprinkles. That's a no, no and no. I'd rather eat Hawaiian Pizza. 🤦♂️
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It's high cocoa low sugar much much less wax, so probably not very sweet and more like bakers chocolate then a candy. I don't think it's very common knowledge but dessert sprinkles are basically just a frosted wax ball.
yeah thinking of it as a simpler version of chocolate-filled croissants makes it a lot more sensible as breakfast
That actually sounds pretty good
Yea, but breakfast?
savoury pastries aren't that strange of a breakfast in my mind, the point of breakfast is to frontload some energy to get you properly awake and going until lunch.
especially if you use whole-grain toast it should be a decent breakfast, then you get some instant energy from the sugar and some long-lasting energy from the carbs and fibre slowing it down.
I mean it's not THAT different from a donut.
Who has donuts every day?!
Translated as "hailstorm" That's incorrect, it's more like hail strike (as in, hit).
My 4 year old likes it with cream cheese. I prefer the traditional real butter on white bread (NOT toast).
Yes. This is the most normal thing in the world for Dutch folk.
Hmmmm. I should help increase that number but I don't eat breakfast.
Aren't they called fairy bread or fairy sandwiches in Australia? Didn't know they were popular elsewhere
Yep, fairy bread here - made with 100’s and 1000’s, white bread and margarine. I’m sure butter would be great but that was never an option at any parties I went to.
This sounds wicked, I'm gonna make some for my kids tomorrow morning!