Roze koek icing is changed to orange (the national colour of The Netherlands), and at Easter time the icing is yellow. Roze koek A roze koek ("pink cake") is a typical Dutch pastry. It consists of a small flat cake with a layer of pink fondant icing. The best-known brand is Glacé. In the city of Amsterdam, the cakes are sometimes referred to as "moesselientjes" ("little Mussolinis"); this name, which is the Dutch adaptation of Benito Mussolini's name, is rooted in the cake's tradition of being sold in Italian ice-cream parlours in Amsterdam prior to the Second World War. On occasion the
Tompouce pastry cream when trying to cut a piece off, makes this difficult and messy, inspiring the humorous article "Hoe eet je een tompoes?" 'How do you eat a tompoes?'. An easier, if slightly less dignified, way of eating a tompouce is to take the frosted top layer off the pastry and hold it one hand, with the bottom half in the other and then take sequential bites, one from the top and then one from the bottom. Even then, the whipped cream tends to squashed out onto the hand. The name of Tom Poes, a cartoon character by Marten Toonder,