tompouce

In Belgium and the Netherlands the tompouce or tompoes is the equivalent pastry.

Belgians also prefer the spelling tompouce.

A tompoes or tompouce (lit.

The cartoon character Tom Poes by Marten Toonder is named after the tompouce.

His original Dutch name Tom Poes, is a word play on the Dutch pastry tompouce, which sounds the same but for a difference in stress.

An easier, if slightly less dignified, way of eating a tompouce is to take the frosted top layer off the pastry and hold it one hand, with the bottom half in the other and then take sequential bites, one from the top and then one from the bottom.