Bakkerij Klopper & Stolk

Seriously. This is. The best cake I have ever eaten.’ A text message of my neighbour Tim after I gave him some pieces of the panettone cake I bought at bakery Klopper en Stolk. This guy was so right. Other than the usual Italian bread made with eggs, butter and fruit, this version has a more powerful fruit taste and is about as juicy as a fruit pudding. Thanks to the use of olive oil instead of butter. Klopper en Stolk did a great job making this highly addictive fruit cake. It makes you wonder how good the other cakes on the shelves are: the Jewish cranberry cake, the brownie cake, the almond cake. I can tell you the bakers make a fine speculaas muffin too, a small spiced cake filled with almond paste, and, man, do they have a lot of (gluten-​free) bread options. Check the Turkish figue-​nuts bread and the Moroccan date bread, ideal additions to a cheese plate.