Stroopwafel!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

😋

[brush]

1. Ok, I'll bite. What is it?

[Xipe Totec]

3. Thin waffle sandwich with caramel in the middle nt

[brush]

4. Sounds delicious. Is there another waffle underneath,...

as it looks like it's in a cup?

[Xipe Totec]

5. It's just being placed on top of the cup for presentation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel

[Danmel]

6. The heat from the coffee or tea softens the caramel

Trader Joe's usually has them in a delft blue container at Christmas time.
They are yummy. We had them in Amsterdam.

[csziggy]

9. Oh! They made those on the Great British Baking Show a while back!

Not only did the contestants have trouble making the very thin waffles, my memory is that every single one of them crystallized the caramel.

[SMC22307]

15. Good memory. And they sent Noel to the Netherlands for the history segment.

I miss them doing those segments!

[csziggy]

16. Oh yeah - I forgot about the Netherlands trip

There are tons of videos about stroopwafels on YouTube, a whole bunch in Dutch. A number of them have people trying to make them. I didn't take the time to watch them, I was searching for the Baking Show episode, which I didn't find.

My memory is not all that good. During our construction, my husband and I had the habit of watching the show each evening, streaming it on BritBox. For some odd reason, they have the order of the seasons backwards so we watched the newer shows for a couple of seasons, then jumped back to the oldest ones to watch in order.

At the end we watched the last two or three seasons over again. I think the stroopwafel episode was in one of those seasons, so it's only been a couple of months.

[SMC22307]

17. It's my go-to show on Netflix when I want to de-stress...

and this post-election period is starting to stress me out.

[csziggy]

18. Now that construction has ended - finally

The last details were finished last week - now we can each be in our own areas, and are working our asses off sorting everything out. We put 2/3 of our house in storage since they had to tear the roof back to do the addition. We're trying to de-clutter but since the reason for the addition was to hold furniture and family records from both sides of the family (we lost both our mothers in 2017 and 2018 and had to empty both their houses) de-cluttering is not happening much.

At least we are too busy to be able to spend much time worrying about the election aftermath, and too tired every night to lose sleep over it.

[Dave in VA]

2. Love these!

Neighbor is a flight attendant on the JFK to Amsterdam route and brings these home for everyone. Delicious!

[DeeNice]

7. Yes, please!

I had my first one in a small town in the Netherlands last year.

[bikebloke]

8. Yum!

Dutch friends introduced me to stroopwafels.

[Ron Obvious]

10. Dutch treat available at Cost Plus World Market if you have those near you.

Or even if you don't for that matter.

Pronunciation is roughly: stroap - WAH ful.

[IcyPeas]

11. trader joes sells mini stroopwafels

as well as the ones in the blue tin. These are available year round:

[smirkymonkey]

12. Yum! First had these in the Netherlands.

You put them over your tea or coffee cup so the heat from the drink can warm them up and melt the caramel between the waffels. Very cozy ritual.

[Tanuki]

13. And they are on sale at Costco right now, marked down from $8.99 to $5.99.

😺☕🍪

[AwakeAtLast]

14. I love those dang things!