Dutch letters

Flaky yummy Dutch letters I've made Dutch letters once before, with traditional puff pastry. Today I tried it with the Jaarsma's Bakery recipe from midwestliving.com. I haven't decided yet if this method of puff pastry is easier, but it's different, and just as delicious. The pastry is puffy, flaky and crisp. I used leftover almond filling from my first try. The leftovers had been in the freezer for a couple of months, and it thawed and baked up great in these Dutch letters. If you're not…

Delicious marzipan-filled pastries!

Golden, flaky and filled with luscious almond paste, these S-shaped Dutch letters are a hit pastry in Iowa and Holland during Christmas season. Our simple 10-ingredient recipe teaches you how to master the art of this popular Dutch treat.

Christmas dessert with almond paste

The recipe for these flaky, almond-filled pastries is based on one from Jaarsma's Bakery in Pella, Iowa.

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These Dutch Letter bars are made with almond paste and just so delicious! A classic spin on the traditional Dutch Letter pastry, you'll love this easy recipe. #anaffairfromtheheart #dutchletterbars #almond #almondpaste

Easy to make bars that taste just like a Dutch Letter! A good friend that I worked with many years ago made these bars all the time and brought them to work. I got the recipe from her in 2003 and let me tell you, if you are a lover of the famous Dutch Letter - a flaky pastry shaped like the letter "S" - you will love this super easy and delicious recipe. Growing up in Iowa, the Dutch Letter was a special treat and one of my favorites. I didn't know a bar could be made to taste just as good…

Dutch Letter Bars

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Dutch letters recipes. From The Iowan issue Nov/Dec 2016.

Known in Dutch as banketstaaf, banketletter, boterletter, or letterbanket, Dutch letters are rolled pastries made of puff pastry with almond paste filling.

May is just around the corner and that means the tulips will be in bloom, and we'll have a great excuse to indulge in Dutch letters.

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Nice and Crunchy I came across a recipe for Brown Sugar Bars that I had copied into a notebook about 25 years ago. It is perhaps the easiest recipe I have ever seen. You see, there are only 5 ingredients … Continue reading →

I recently enjoyed these at a 4th of July celebration. The recipe is from the wonderful magazine "Our Iowa" -- the June/July 2010 edition, and it was submitted by B. Weiser. Here's HER description as written in the magazine, "My family is Dutch, and my aunt passed down her traditional Dutch letter recipe to me. I used to make them all the time, but they take a lot of time. Then I found this recipe. It's so easy to make but tastes so much like my aunt's recipe. My family actually…

Angie’s dutch letter recipe