I have no cakes to add… but wow - best thread!
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I’ve been doing this too! Pinch of salt/teaspoon-ish of syrup? I don’t think I’ll go back to plain water, my stomach seems much less sloshy since I started. I’ve been using it for general hydration during the day too.
More in keeping with the thread: I ate half a lemon cake directly out of the bakery container after my long (indoor) ride last weekend. Lemon cake isn’t usually my jam but it was delicious.
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I’d never heard of these things before joining the TR forum. Just looked them up on Google and they’re readily available in the UK. God help me!
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They’re up there with Pringles in their moreishness. I have learned not to buy the big packs with 10 to a bag, as unless I have people to share with that inevitably means eating 10 in one sitting…
They’re also good for dunking, and if you put one on top of a steaming cup of coffee for a minute before eating it nicely softens up the caramel into a gooey mess of deliciousness.
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This thread is dangerous
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This post should be flagged for its content 
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Get a nice hot coffee, put the stroopwafel over the top and the centre gets all nice and gooey 
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Ok, since we’re into local stuff, might as well go all-in.
Pouding chômeur.
Literally means “unemployed pudding”. A cheap recipe (hence the name) that you make with brown sugar if you really are cheap, but maple syrup if you have any common sense. My mother used to do one to die, kill or sell your sister for.
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I put a couple of tablespoons of maple syrup in with the vanilla protein shake. Makes it way more tasty and carbs and protein for recovery.
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Tasty but way too sweet for me along with things tarte au sucre and all the other ones that come with having a Quebecois wife.
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Another Ottawan?? That’s makes 3 TR users here that I know of. 
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I don’t understand the part about tarte au sucre and too sweet. There’s nothing that a tall glass of cold milk can’t fix.
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I’ve been doing banana bread recently. After ride versions made with white flour, and a “healthier” version that I eat for breakfast with whole wheat flour. This basically:
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My teeth hurt just looking at one 
Not a real sweet-tooth kind of person, but cookies are my kryptonite
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I approve of this thread
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Whoa… That looks insane.
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The Appelgebak looks amazing, more dense than a typical North American apple pie. I’m going to try out that recipe for Pi Day (March 14). I recently started using Stroopwafels during TR sessions when I ran out of “bike nutrition”, and didn’t have time to get any before a big Saturday over under session. As per @Nate_Pearson I’ve started taking on carbs during rest intervals on those days. I found Stroopwaffles while shopping at a European specialty shop by my house, and having heard of them in the cycling community, decided to give them a try. Fantastic! I’ll be using them in a ski loppet this weekend, and on the road as well this coming cycling season.
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Yes! My climbing partner introduced me to this on a very grim early-season climbing trip in the Eastern Townships. We had been wet and cold all day, as most of the rock was still largely covered in ice. He’d brought along a Pouding Chomeur, and at the end of the day, we just sat there with 100 mile stares on our faces, mucking the whole thing straight out of the tray.
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