poffertjes and stroopwafels

[ChrisGreaves]

Thursday’s Toronto Star carried a travel article describing the Markthal in Rotterdam and mentioning poffertjes and stroopwafels.
Now some of you – and you know who you are – have access to simple recipes for these treats, recipes that you have used, or your mothers before you.
Prove the worth of your existence by posting a recipe that most of us here could follow.
Hint: most of us don’t have access to commercial deep-friers or eight-square-foot griddles etc.

P.S. it doesn’t matter which is the gouda recipe.

[Rudi]

I wouldn't know what goes into poffertjies, but stroopwafels is a straight forward waffle with syrup IMHO. No different to the US or UK brand.

Whilst on the topic, please include Amsterdammetjes

[Rudi]

Ah, wait a moment!
Poffertjes is flapjacks...or at least it seems that way!

[HansV]

Poffertjes (pancake puffs) are quite easy, people do make them at home here: Classic Poffertjes (Pancake Puffs).

But stroopwafels (syrup waffles) are more difficult, I wouldn't try to make them if you don't have a special waffle iron. See Stroopwafels (Dutch Syrup Waffles). People here buy them in a shop or freshly prepared at a market stall.

[ChrisGreaves]

... stroopwafels is a straight forward waffle ...

OK, thanks Rudi. I'll strike them from my list of things-to-do this weekend.

[ChrisGreaves]

Poffertjes is flapjacks...

oh SPILLAGE! or some other suitable expletive.
Scratch them too from my things-to-do list.

This is awful; the photo in The Star (not present in the online edition) made them look life puffy-hollow pastry cream-filled icing-sugar-dusted delicacies.
" ... a pancake ball served with icing sugar and butter."

If this keeps up I shall stop stealing this paper and steal a different one ...

[ChrisGreaves]

Whilst on the topic, please include Amsterdammetjes

"Amsterdammertjes were ... made from ... plates of steel"
Huh
I can see how this might be good if you wanted abs of steel, but ???

[ChrisGreaves]

... See Stroopwafels (Dutch Syrup Waffles).

Oh right! I've seen and bought packets of these in the Dutch-speciality stores in the GTA.
They are so good that I refuse to buy them any more.

[ChrisGreaves]

... poffertjes ...

So it now seems to me that if I can come up with yet-another-quaint-name-for-pancakes I could make a fortune selling the recipe.
The English seem to rave about Parisian crepes, but they're really just thin versions of the pancakes my (Lancashire) mother used to make.
"candensisyrup" might be a good starter.