Oliebollen baker celebrates New Year’s Eve for two months

BERGEN OP ZOOM - Oliebollen, some bakers advertise them as Dutch doughnuts, is in the vast majority of situations a baked delicacy reserved just for New Year’s Eve. But in this Western Brabant town’s baker John Dauphin who operates his business from a ‘downtown’ mobile market outlet with his wife Elly, makes several other year-end specialties along with the ‘oliebollen’ during all of November and December. This year is his 25th ‘oliebollen’ season on the market square, a fact recently celebrated with a day-long special offer on these delicacies at his Hollandse Gebakkraam.