The tastiest homemade apple pies

(but then bought)

Back in the day, when I still lived in the Jordaan, I often went to Winkel 43 after my visit to the Noordermarkt, maybe you know it, there you can (people say) buy the best apple pie in the city. And I know that it’s not such a complicated recipe at all. I even know which recipe, but I’ll keep that a secret. It’s delicious anyway and you could easily make it at home (just believe me). But well, we don’t have all the time in the world, so here I am giving you the addresses where you can eat the tastiest apple pies that look like they just came out of your own oven. You can still bluff a little when someone comes to visit you too.

Amsterdam

A.M. de Rond on the Overtoom

Maybe one of the best in the city and if you leave the box out, it looks homemade. You score so many points with this.

Winkel 43

And the best part on Saturday afternoons is that you can first walk around the market. It’s really crowded and the pies are flying off the shelves so you have to secure a spot, but once you’re seated, it’s a cozy place.

The Hague

Dudok

I checked with Annemerel (and she knows her stuff): “Dudok is the absolute best, but I don’t think those pies really look homemade.”

Not a big deal this time.

Rotterdam

Urban Bakery

This is unfair because this is actually also Dudok, but we also have Urban Bakery. The bakery has an open kitchen where you can see that everything is made from scratch. Including the apple pies.

Leiden

Bakker Jan

Bakker Jan can bake, I can tell you, and has very good sheet cake. As if it comes from your own little kitchen. Or ’t Herenstraatje, which is a shell of cookie dough, filled with creamy cake, apple slices, and pastry cream. I’m sold.

Utrecht

Tastoe

“Absolutely Tastoe in the Zadelstraat,” shouts friend Leonore.

Haarlem

’t Wereld Bakkertje

There’s a good chance you’ll hesitate when you see the carrot cake lying next to the apple pie. Both equally delicious and very much pass for the homemade effect.