{"id":10350,"date":"2019-11-23T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=10350"},"modified":"2019-11-23T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T00:10:08","slug":"kringle-vs-kringle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=10350","title":{"rendered":"Kringle vs Kringle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAfter my 11\/16 post<\/a> about Holtermann\u2019s kringle on Staten Island, a number of folks spoke up about their experience with the same Danish pastry from Trader Joe\u2019s. So of course I had no choice but to purchase TJ\u2019s version for one of my typically OCD A\/B tests.<\/p>\n

Trader Joe\u2019s product comes to us from the O&H Danish Bakery in Racine, Wisconsin, a family business that\u2019s been making kringler and sharing hygge since 1949, so their Danish culinary bona fides are well established; their website, ohdanishbakery.com, touts some 23 tempting flavors but I suspect TJ\u2019s offers only almond.<\/p>\n

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\nTJ\u2019s is filled with a rich, dense almond paste and adorned with a lemony glaze. It was slightly smaller and featured a filling, glaze and dough that were a bit sweeter, perhaps, than…<\/p>\n

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\nHoltermann\u2019s, shown here from the previous post, that boasted a nut filled nut paste filling, a sweet sugar glaze and a slightly more sophisticated, handmade tasting dough that seemed to have more of a from-scratch, small-batch taste.<\/p>\n

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\nTJ\u2019s in its entirety, complete with a quarter for size comparison, as I did for…<\/p>\n

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\nHoltermann\u2019s \u2013 photo from my last post for the sake of completeness. I told you I was OCD.<\/p>\n

The verdict. They were different, and both were certainly good in their own fashion as described above. Then again, Holtermann\u2019s cost $22 and involved a subway ride, a ferry crossing, and no small amount of time getting there and back again, but at $7.99 for a similar confection, I can walk to TJ\u2019s in about half an hour and probably burn off some of those kringle kalories while I\u2019m at it! \ud83d\ude09
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