I'm not sure if this belongs here or r/decentfoodporn, so I'm erring on shitty because I don't consider this as an established normal food.

I went all out celebrating this fall holiday with my extended families. During their short visit from out of town, we did the whole nine yards of Thanksgiving dinner, movie night, 4-player games on Switch 2, candies & snacks, board games, etc.

A little background about my family (parents, two older sisters, myself), we came from Suriname (Dutch Guiana) before moving to the United States in the early 90s. While my siblings are familiar with hagelslag having eaten it back then, I was too young to have tried it and don’t remember seeing it before leaving our old country.

Wanting to finally try the dessert after learning about it from reddit several years ago and finding a ‘good’ excuse to do so by sharing the experience with my niece and nephew, I decided it was time to treat me and the kids with a unique twist on what their mother and aunt used to eat when they themselves were kids.

Dutch hagelslag consists of a slice of untoasted white bread, butter spread all over one side, and heavy layering of chocolate sprinkles (rich in cocoa, not waxy) compacted into the butter.

My bastardized version lives up to its American name by being a melting pot of food items from different cultures / countries and because it is excessively sweet.

Ingredients List

• Trader Joe's sliced French brioche bread
• Kerrygold naturally softer pure Irish butter
• Nutella chocolate hazelnut spread (imported version in the glass jar)
• Kraft Heinz Jet-Puffed marshmallow creme
• India Tree chocolate vermicelli (from Fresh Market)
• rainbow dot sprinkles

Most of our store brand chocolate sprinkles are said to be not chocolaty enough and don’t give the proper crunchiness when chewed. I could not locally source the De Ruijter brand so had to make do with an approximate substitute. The Dutch sprinkles can be bought online from Amazon, but I did not plan ahead to buying some early enough before Thanksgiving day.

I avoided Walmart’s Marketside sliced brioche as it is not as soft and vanilla-y aromatic compared to Trader Joe’s. The US versions of Nutella that come in plastic jars (made in Canada or Mexico) aren’t as good as those made in Italy, Germany, Poland, Turkey, etc.

There’s not much to assembly instructions. Toast the bread, spread butter on one slice, spread marshmallow on the other, layer each with their respective sprinkles (butter + chocolate, jet puff + rainbow), add nutella to the center, smoosh together, and enjoy your diabeetus.