This month Kaveri of Palakkad Chamayal challenged the Baking Partners with two lovely Dutch recipes from The Dutch Table... a Dutch Apple Pie and these Dutch Sweet Rolls called Koffiebroodjes. While the spices of the Apple Pie were enticing, the sound of "Koffiebroodjes" was too sweet to pass up. So I decided on baking the later and glazing it with a jam that contained the flavors of the Dutch Apple Pie or Appletart.. The result was a delight and we really enjoyed them with our latte...
Translated literally, Koffiebroodjes means Coffee Buns. Apparently these old-fashioned glazed sweet rolls are available at local bakeries and supermarkets in Netherlands. They are usually eaten around 11:00 am during the coffee break or shared over a cup of coffee with the neighbours. Though the recipe here uses a jam glaze, these buns are also made with a sugar based sweet glaze. In some respect they are very similar to the classic cinnamon buns. They too are sticky from the glaze and have raisins in their folds. However these are not pull-apart buns and there is no brown sugar or cinnamon. These are baked as single units and a vanilla pudding replaces the cinnamon-brown sugar mixture in them, thereby making them quite different from their Siamese twins... the cinnamon rolls.
