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# Broodje Vlokken
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/broodje-vlokken/
- Published: 2026-05-17T15:17:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T11:14:27.000Z
- Description: Chocolate flakes sandwich; larger chocolate shavings.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Netherlands, Fruit & Nut, Het Zoete Broodje & Beschuit, #auto-imported

**🇳🇱 Netherlands** · Family: [Het Zoete Broodje & Beschuit](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-zoet/) · Bread: bolletje

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Ingredients

bolletje · chocolate flakes · butter

The *Broodje Vlokken* is the chocolate-flake roll, and it sits at the sweet end of Dutch bread eating rather than the savoury lunch side. The name points straight at the topping: *vlokken*, larger chocolate shavings or flakes, distinct from the finer *hagelslag* sprinkle. This is breakfast or an afternoon snack treatment of a plain roll, eaten across the Netherlands as an everyday thing rather than a dessert, and the whole appeal rests on a contrast between soft bread, a film of butter, and chocolate that holds its shape instead of dissolving.

The build is short and the order matters more than it looks. Start with a fresh roll, split or left whole and opened, soft crumb intact. Butter is not optional here, it does structural work: a proper, even layer of cold butter across the cut face is what the *vlokken* stick to. Skip or skimp the butter and the flakes slide off onto the plate, which is the single most common failure. The chocolate goes on next, scattered to the edges so every bite carries some, pressed gently into the butter so it sets rather than rolls. A good version has the butter cold and the roll fresh so the flakes stay distinct and slightly crunchy against soft crumb. A sloppy one uses a stale or over-toasted roll, warm butter that turns the chocolate to smear, or so thin a scatter that the middle bites are plain bread. Restraint is not the goal here the way it is with a savoury *broodje*: even coverage is.

Variation runs mostly through the chocolate and the bread. *Vlokken* come in milk, dark, and sometimes white, and the curl size shifts the texture from delicate to substantial. On a soft white roll it stays in pure snack territory, on a denser brown roll it reads a little less indulgent. The finer-sprinkle relative, *hagelslag* on bread, is a tighter and more uniform construction that deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here. At its plainest the *Broodje Vlokken* is judged on three things: a fresh roll, butter laid thick and cold enough to grip, and flakes that stay crisp and reach every corner.

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## More from this family

Other [Het Zoete Broodje & Beschuit](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-zoet/) sandwiches in Netherlands:

- [Beschuit met Hagelslag](https://onesandwich.com/beschuit-met-hagelslag/)
- [Beschuit met Muisjes](https://onesandwich.com/beschuit-met-muisjes/)
- [Beschuit](https://onesandwich.com/beschuit/)
- [Bossche Bol](https://onesandwich.com/bossche-bol/)
- [Broodje Appelstroop](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-appelstroop-2/)
- [Broodje Appelstroop](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-appelstroop/)
- [Broodje Hagelslag](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-hagelslag/)
- [Broodje Honing](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-honing/)

[See all Het Zoete Broodje & Beschuit sandwiches →](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-zoet/)