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Poffertjes
Small Dutch yeast-raised pancakes served hot with butter and a generous dusting of icing sugar.
About Poffertjes
Poffertjes are small Dutch yeast-raised pancakes closely tied to festivals, markets and celebrations. This profile follows Dutch food writer Nicole Holten's modern wheat-flour version, served traditionally with butter and icing sugar.
The lightly fermented batter tastes gently wheaty, milky and egg-rich, with butter adding rounded dairy richness. A generous coating of icing sugar supplies the defining clean sweetness without extra syrups or flavoured toppings.
Each poffertje is a small, round golden puff with curved sides shaped by the pan's dimples. The outside is lightly browned and delicate, while the yeast-raised centre stays soft, springy and airy.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Wheat (gluten), Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Poffertjes
Nicole Holten's Dutch Poffertjes.
- MilkWarm liquid for the risen batter
- Active dry yeastFermentation and airy lift
- Wheat flourPancake structure
- EggsBinding and tender structure
- SaltSeasoning
- Icing sugarTraditional sweet dusting
- ButterPan grease and traditional rich topping
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Milk:
- Active dry yeast:
- Wheat flour: . The source's all-purpose flour maps to the established wheat-flour route
- Eggs:
- Salt:
- Icing sugar:
- Butter:
Origins & food traditions
Dutch food writer Nicole Holten supplies the complete recipe selected here and traces poffertjes to a mid-eighteenth-century Dutch cookbook, while documenting their place at national holidays and markets. The independent dish reference corroborates them as traditional Dutch yeast-and-flour batter cakes served with butter and powdered sugar.
Countries
- Netherlands
- NetherlandsCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Dutch Cuisine
- Dutch CuisineCatalogue link pending review