Biscuits from Maison Dandoy in Brussels

A tea time with Maison Dandoy's biscuits (well, may I call them cookies?) at home! We brought back several food items from Belgium. While most of them were clearly chocolates, some were non-chocolate, like those wonderfully buttery delicious cookies.

Their famous speculoos - traditional and with vanilla. Biscuit florentin. Patience. Croquant. Biscuit caremel beurre salé. Cocolate orangine. Palet de dame raisins. Ginger biscuit. Plain sablé. Pistachio sablé. Chocolate sablé. Citron sablé. Sweet biscotte. Bernardin. Pain d'amandes. Macron.

Each had a different texture and flavor but shared their butter and sugar rule among all. We had our box filled with 17 kinds of cookies (two of each). It may sound like a lot! However, there were several more cookies at the stop that couldn't join the box. All of our cookies vanished so quickly. Perhaps, we could have chosen a bigger box...

Dandoy runs a total of 10 shops in Belgium and three are in the centre of Brussels. One mainly functions as a tea room for waffles, which we visited but couldn't enter due to a long waiting line; and another one in the famous shopping arcade offers cookies and a small cafe space, where we (mostly I) managed to have a waffle. The other is located near the Grand Place and focuses on cookies, where we sampled a couple of cookies on our first day in Brussels. The shop, the smallest of three, was full of cookies and smelled wonderful!

The shop displayed many wooden moulds to make speculoos. According to Dandoy, "our speculoos recipe comes straight from our great-great-great-grandfather. We still make them the traditional way with real butter, brown sugar and handcrafted wooden moulds." Those moulds were adorable!

Dandoy was definitely a must-go place in Brussels. If we go back there, I am sure that we will come back with the biggest box that Dandoy offers.