Spekkoek

Spekkoek: A Legacy of Spice and Layers

Let’s get the elephant out of the room: spekkoek literally means ‘bacon cake’. Why would anyone name a perfectly lovely cake after cured pork? Well, that’s part of the weird charm. See those stripes in the cake? Yeah, those vaguely resemble bacon. Hence why a bunch of Dutch people a few centuries back decided to be super descriptive rather than creative when naming this thing.