Richenel’s

Recently I found some great white chocolate eggs. Inside: a curd-​lemon mousse with Madagascar vanilla, cookie crumbs and mighty juicy raspberries. Break the ‘egg’, mix the filling with the chocolate pieces and you have yourself a dessert that will make you fly to nirvana right away. This choco surprise is just one of the many unique creations of patissier Richenel’s. Another showpiece is the snicker pie. Even the most spoilt kid will kiss your feet when you give this huge chocolate-​peanut bar extraordinaire. The creator of all this sweetness not only is a genius, he is a health guru too. Richenel Doekhi, the former pastry chef of De Kersentuin, is determined to prove that less sugar certainly not means less taste. To intensify the taste of his pastries and cookies — love the bokkenpoten — he only works with pure ingredients. An excellent example is his apple macaroon, a sweet-​sour mini apple pie with cinnamon cream and dried muscadet grapes. A bargain at 1.25 euro each.