Hagelslag from Holland – Chocolate Sprinkles On Buttered Bread Are A Sweet Delight

Remember when we were kids and we'd make cinnamon toast?

Or, if you were me, you'd literally just dump sugar on bread. Not even toasted or buttered or anything, it would literally be sugar on white wonder bread that will fill the porous texture of bread, dust off the excess, and eat that as a treat.

Well, what if that was common for all ages and, in fact, national recognized as something most people do?

That's a little like what Hagelslag is for the Netherlands.

Where are the Netherlands

First, let's talk location. The Netherlands is located in the Northwest corner of Europe. You can find it next to Germany, just across the North Sea from the United Kingdom.

Amsterdam (Holland), Rotterdam, The Hague, all in Netherlands.

Windmills, tulips, and chocolate sprinkles, apparently.

What is Hagelslag?

Hagelslag is basically an open-faced chocolate sprinkles sandwich.

Take a slice of bread with butter and dump chocolate sprinkles on it. Congratulations, you just made a Hagelslag sandwich.

According to Wikipedia, Hagelslag is just the chocolate sprinkles, but the sandwich, itself, but it seems they call that Hagelslag as well. Like if someone says they love Nutella. It doesn't mean they're just eating spoonfuls of Nutella (though I wouldn't judge). It's consumed by 750,000 for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or just a snack between meals.

Sure, you can use chocolate sprinkles found in grocery stores in the baking section but I decided to actually import legit Hagelslag on Amazon.

Hagelslag review

I gotta say, it was pretty good. Not fantastic, not mind blowing, but it was a little like Nutella on bread. Just a chocolatey buttered bread. I mean, it was good and I'd make more, but I get it.

A nice sweet kick to start your day or get you through the work day. Something we could probably embrace here in the United States.

And if you still think that's weird, Australia has something called Fairy Bread which is mostly the same thing but with rainbow sprinkles. Might have to try that next.

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