Tompouce

<h2 id="customs">Customs</h2>
<p>In the Netherlands, the tompoes is iconic, and the market allows little variation in form, size, and colour. It must be rectangular, with two layers of <a href="/facts/Puff_pastry/NdAJUjFj">puff pastry</a>, similar to the <a href="/facts/Mille-feuille/5u0a6IAU">cream slice</a> in the United Kingdom. The <a href="/facts/Icing_(food)/JPWetW1G">icing</a> is smooth and pink, or occasionally white. For many years, however, the top layer has been orange on <a href="/facts/Koningsdag/RgahLap7">Koningsdag</a> (King's Day), and a few days before. It may also be orange-coloured when the national football team plays in large international tournaments; this dates from about 1990. The filling is invariably sweet, yellow <a href="/facts/Pastry_cream/EI3GcECM">pastry cream</a>. Tompouces are sometimes topped with <a href="/facts/Whipped_cream/A8PD9PF8">whipped cream</a>. Variations with different fillings or with <a href="/facts/Fruit_preserves/TSkwzfzF">jelly</a> are comparatively rare and are not called tompoes. 
</p><p>Several variations exist in Belgium. White glazing on top is the norm in Belgium, sometimes with a chocolate pattern similar to <a href="/facts/Mille-feuille/5u0a6IAU">mille-feuille</a>. The <i>boekske</i> (<i>lit.</i> 'booklet') may have a sugar finish and may be square. Belgians also use the spelling <i>tompouce</i> or call them <i>glacé</i> (referring to the glazing).
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<h2 id="eating-the-tompouce">Eating the tompouce</h2>

<p>The cakes are usually served with tea, beer, or coffee, and in formal settings are eaten with <a href="/facts/Pastry_fork/Lh7uaxU5">pastry forks</a>. But the hard biscuit-like layers, which squash the pastry cream when trying to cut a piece off, make this difficult and messy, inspiring the humorous article "Hoe eet je een tompoes?" ('How do you eat a tompouce?').<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Cremeschnitte/XN4I4xuX">Cremeschnitte</a></li>
<li>Crompouce</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ice_cream_sandwich/rQEPRRAH">Ice cream sandwich</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Mille-feuille/5u0a6IAU">Mille-feuille</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Napoleonka/EBbr7NNA">Napoleonka (kremówka)</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_custard_desserts/xWJTcX48">List of custard desserts</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<p> Media related to Tompouce at Wikimedia Commons
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Arnhemsche Courant, 30 August 1867 [1] <a href="https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=MMKB08:000091560:mpeg21:a0012" target="_blank">https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=MMKB08:000091560:mpeg21:a0012</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Schravesande, Freek (30 August 2007). "Hoe eet je een tompoes?" [How do you eat a tompouce?]. NRC (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140407085347/http://vorige.nrc.nl/krant/article1833184.ece" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140407085347/http://vorige.nrc.nl/krant/article1833184.ece</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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