Reply With QuoteIf no one knows, I am going to Amsterdam in early November. Send me a PM and I'll pick some up (if they are sold packaged.)
where can I get some stroopwafels
while on vacation i tasted dutch stroopwafels for the first time, with a cup of coffee they were a piece of heaven. 2 thin syrup waffles with caramel between and pressed together into a cookie like thing.
I must have them again.
Evidently they are quite famous. Does any one here know what I am talking about, and if there is anywhere in New York to buy a package of them, like a store carrying northern european food imports
They are the bomb!
Last edited by MidtownGuy; September 9th, 2007 at 09:02 PM.
If no one knows, I am going to Amsterdam in early November. Send me a PM and I'll pick some up (if they are sold packaged.)
RECIPE
Ingredients waffles (12 pieces):
- 300 g caster sugar
- 450 g butter
- 3 eggs
- 3 sp milk
- 600 g flour
- cinnamon
- salt
Ingredients syrup:
- 600 g cane-sugar syrup
- 300 g butter
Preparation
Mix the sugar with the eggs, milk, flower, cinnamon, salt and the butter sliced in pieces. Make 12 small balls.
Preheat the waffle iron. Squeeze a paste ball in the iron. Bake the waffle in about 30 seconds.
Cut the waffle in two thin waffles and spread the waffle with the mix of syrup and butter.
Bon appetite!
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SHADY MAPLE FARM
Product Name: Organic Maple Stroopwafels (cookie waffles)
Organic Maple Stroopwafels (cookie waffles) that can be consumed for snack or at breakfast.Product Name: Organic Honey & Maple Stroopwafels (cookie-waffles)
These cookie-waffles can be served at breakfast or as a snack.
Whole Foods carries them.
Thanks. I'm going to Whole Foods right now.
I have been doing some reading about them on the internet and it seems I'm not the only person hooked after one try. The truth is I haven't been able to forget about them since I returned.
BrooklynRider you will love them when you try them. They are packaged. You have them with tea or coffee, putting them over the rim of the cup for a minute or two and they get soft. They are sweet, but not too sweet, and have a cinnamon taste. Yum.
I went to Whole Foods and found the stroop waffles. They were packaged in a little box with 8 little stroopwaffels inside. They did not have much flavor at all. Looking at the ingredient list inside there was no butter (which is a most important ingredient in them), just palm oilAlso, they are traditionally made with caramel inside; Whole Foods was hawking their palm oil/maple syrup version at $3.99 and they really sucked.
The next day, craving unsatisfied, I went to The Amish Market on 45th near the UN. Same deal...they had a version that was packed in a little square box without much flavor at all.
I'm not excpecting the kind you get hot from a streetvendor in Holland...I'm just looking for packaged ones similar to what I had in Germany. It doesn't look like it's going to happen, because, as it turns out, New York doesn't actually have everything.
So here we are...an originally Dutch city that is absolutely without a worthy
Dutch style stroopwafel anywhere, at least that I can find.
Will someone please...
either
(1) Tell me where in New York there is a stroopwafel that doesn't taste like the box it is packaged in
-or-
(2) Invest with me in a Manhattan stroopwafel enterprise, which I can FULLY GUARANTEE will make us rich.
You taste one, and you are hooked.
Sorry that I led you wrong, MidtownGuy. I've never tried the waffles, but I did know they're next to the Italian lemon wafers I favor.
oh no Schadenfrau , I'm totally thankful that you read my post and answered in a spirit of helpfulness. I'll have to try those lemon wafers
As for the elusive stroopwafels, the search goes on.
As I have posted on the grocery thread, Whole Foods &*$#s.
this seems like the kind of thing Empire Coffee would have -- I have to go there later today, will report back
ali r.
{downtown broker}
Negative on Empire Coffee; it's crazy, I remember 15 years ago when some coffee place -- was it Oren's or Starbucks? -- was trying to get us all to buy Stroopwaffels.
I would hold outside hopes for Trader Joe's and perhaps Petite Abeille (they're Belgian, but they're waffle people) before consigning yourself to mail order.
ali r.
{downtown broker}
You know, I'm not wild about Whole Foods either.
I'll try Trader Joe's next time I'm near Union Square.
I'd be really surprised if they did not fly off the shelves of whatever coffeshop stocked them, but I think I know what's happening. Here in the good ole USA they are offering a cheap imitation of stroopwafels that use palm oil or soybean oil instead of real butter and that makes a HUGE difference.
where to buy stroopwafels!
I can't believe I stumbled upon this post while polishing off a box of Stroopwafel. It was meant to be!
You can purchase Stroopwafels at Khim's Millennium Market at 280 Bedford Avenue (Williamsburg, Brooklyn...get off at the Bedford Ave stop on the L Train and walk south a few blocks).
The brand I bought was Shady Maple Farms...they're organic, scrumptious and imported from Holland. $4.99 for a box of 8. Hope this helps!
This from a Times article published 12 years ago:
Coffee bars are stocking up on a delicious Dutch confection to nibble with coffee: the Stroopwafel, a layer of caramel sandwiched between thin round waffled wafers about three inches in diameter. The treat is said to have originated in the town of Gouda in the Netherlands more than 200 years ago.
Stroopwafels are placed on top of a cup of coffee or tea so the heat softens the caramel. They are imported by Nanelle, a company in Manhattan started by Nancie Julian and Ellen Healy Pegg, who discovered the cookies while traveling in Holland. Coffee bar chains in Manhattan, including Timothy's, Brothers, Oren's Daily Roast and Philip's, sell Stroopwafels for about $1. They are also available at Java Nation in Sag Harbor, L.I., and in the espresso bars in Nordstom department stores in White Plains and in Menlo Park, Freehold and Paramus, N.J. Fifty Wines for the Tasting
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