Hier geht's zur deutschen Version dieses Posts In 2016 we Avid Bakers have a new challenge for breads and pastries: Weekend Bakery.com from the Netherlands. This is especially interesting to me, since Amsterdam is one of my favorite places. I have traveled there several times, and love what it has to offer, amazing art, a beautiful, walk-able city, and lots of good food. Hanaâ , our "head baker", chose rondos, buttery pastry filled with almond paste - very appealing to a marzipan fan like me! The little cakes, very popular in the Netherlands, are supposed to have a texture like Dutch apple pie - I never had one, so I can't comment on that, but they are certainly delightful. Dutch bakers have special pastry rings to make rondos (or kanos, if they are ovals). Lacking these, I used my (slightly larger) English muffin rings (the other option would have been baking them in a muffin tin). There are two choices for the marzipan filling, either the traditional almond past