GO DUTCH!
Going back to Amsterdam as my adult self.... A week in Amsterdam is a week imbibed with culture, a true sense of everything " European" and... cake. Yes, cake! After nearly 20 years of prissy french patisserie it was a gastro pleasure to stop every 100 m to simply gaze through the café windows at mountains of fruit-full, nutty, chocoholic, wondrous cakes. Even better was to step inside and relish them. And that, we did. Deep dish apple tarts made with finely chopped crisp aromatic apple, tossed in cinnamon, in linen-thin sweet short crust pastry served with ladles of whipped cream . Small lux tarts, sweet pastry filled with feather light almond cream, apple, glazed with the most apricot of jams and roasted almond slithers. Cranberry and roasted grain and nut tarts ...nut topping included pumpkin seed, cashew, sunflower, almonds and all tossed in caramel. Mini roasted cashew tarts on a bed of gooey caramel. Sacher Torte ( ok so it's Austrian but the Du...