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Bakery van Maanen
Every once in a while a hype comes along that you just can’t ignore. Right now that hype is something you can eat, a trend that (how could it be otherwise) comes from TikTok. We’re talking about the crompouce: a mix between a croissant and a tompouce. Haven’t been able to score it yet? Then easily make it yourself with your kids.
Have your kids been talking about the crompouce that is frequently seen on social media? That’s not surprising because it’s quite a hype by now. A crompouce is a croissant containing the pastry cream of a tompouce and on top of the famous bright pink icing (or sometimes pink chocolate).
Influencers filmed themselves eating the sweet pastry and it went viral. Bakers are now getting mass requests to see if they are selling the crompouce yet, and at the local market you have to get there very early if you want to get your hands on one (or more).
@monicauze
Crompouce taste test at office👀
♬ original sound – Monica Geuze
This is how the crompouce became a hype
The social medium TikTok is causing many trends among young people. This is due to TikTok’s algorithm: the more often you watch a video on a specific topic, the more videos of that kind you will see. In the case of the crompouce, it’s about something recognizable: a tompouce and a croissant. It looks nice AND it has a funny name.
Because you keep watching such a movie and then see more movies about it, you think that everyone eats the crompouce. Then you want it yourself and that’s how the demand for crompouces (or, in Dutch: crompoezen) arises among bakers. Next, it’s a hype.
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House of crompouce pop-up in Amsterdam
Bakker van Maanen was one of the first bakers to market the crompouce. Meanwhile, the pink croissants are hard to come by and so the bakery came up with a new concept: House of crompouce. From November 8 until February next year, you can visit this pop-up bakery at Prinsengracht number 16 in Amsterdam for the most delicious crompouces and merchandise.
@jumbo.tiktok
Lotte shows how to make these delicious crompouces easily and quickly! #crompouce #croissant #tompouce
♬ original sound – Jumbo Supermarkets
Easy recipe: the crompouce (very suitable with children)
Have your kids been begging for a crompouce for days and you’ve been bending over backwards to get your hands on the sweet treat, but keep missing out? Then make it yourself, together with your children on a drizzly Wednesday afternoon or Saturday morning. After all, it’s not as hard as you might think.
This is what you need to make the crompouce:
Fresh croissants from the bakery or supermarket, or bake at home
Mix for pastry cream (just find it in the supermarket)
semi-skimmed milk
Ruby melting chocolate (or go for a packet of pink icing that you just need to warm up in hot water, both available in the supermarket)
This is how to make crompouces
Cut open the (cooled) croissants. Melt the ruby chocolate au bain marie and dip the top of the croissants in it. You can use a spoon to pour some more glaze over your crompouces. Put them in the fridge for a while so the topping can harden.
Next, make the pastry cream according to the package, for this you will need the semi-skimmed milk. Also put the cream in the fridge for a while (at least five minutes). Take everything out of the fridge and fill the crompouces with cream.
Now let them stand for an hour. Just kidding of course, no one manages that at all. Enjoy!
Strange variations on the crompouce
Now that we completely embrace the amalgamation of a croissant and tompouce, funny, delicious and sometimes in our eyes slightly dirty other combinations with pastry cream and pink icing naturally trickle onto the market. Think of the donpouce (= donut and tompouce), the frikanpouce (= frikandel and tompouce…) and the oilpouce (= an oliebol and tompouce).
This article previously appeared with our colleagues at J/M Parents.
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