Roze koek

Roze koek
	A Glacé with a bite taken out
Type	Pastry
Place of origin	Netherlands
Main ingredients	Cake, pink fondant

A roze koek ("pink cake") is a typical Dutch pastry. It consists of a small flat cake with a layer of pink fondant icing. The best-known brand is Glacé.^{[citation needed]}

In the city of Amsterdam, the cakes are sometimes referred to as moesselientjes ("little Mussolinis"); this name, which is the Dutch adaptation of Benito Mussolini's name, is rooted in the cake's tradition of being sold in Italian ice-cream parlours in Amsterdam prior to the Second World War.^{[citation needed]}

Variants

On occasion the cakes are sold in alternative varieties, with the pink icing replaced by a different colour. During football championships the icing is changed to orange (the national colour of The Netherlands), and at Easter time the icing is yellow.^{[citation needed]}