Danish butter cookies: the makers to know
Butter cookies, made from butter, flour and sugar, come from Denmark, which has exported them for many years, above all to the United States and Asia. Exported cookies are packed in round tins, stacked in paper cups, and the blue tin is so often kept for sewing things or recipes that it has become a running joke. Royal Dansk has baked its cookies in Denmark since 1966; its two bakeries in Nørre Snede and Ribe make more than 25,000 tonnes a year.
Royal Dansk Danish butter cookies in a round blue tin, first baked in Helsingør in 1966 and baked today in Nørre Snede and Ribe.Works: The blue tin, Vanilla Ring, Pretzel
Kjeldsens Danish butter cookies baked since 1933, best known in Hong Kong and mainland China.Works: Butter Cookies
Jacobsens Bakery Danish butter cookies in decorated tins, baked in Hedensted and sold mostly abroad; the company began in 1962 as an import and export house.