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Pretzel

Royal Dansk's pretzel-shaped butter cookie, topped with fine sugar, one of the five classic shapes in the blue tin.

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A Royal Dansk pretzel cookie with sugar
A Royal Dansk pretzel cookie with sugar

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Why it is renowned

The sugar-topped Pretzel is one of the five shapes that make up the classic Royal Dansk assortment.1 Pretzel-like forms are, with rings, among the most popular shapes of Danish butter cookies, and Vice's portrait of the brand recalls a childhood tin of cookies shaped like bows and topped with sprinkles.23 Royal Dansk calls it a famous shape.4

The story

The Pretzel is a crisp butter cookie shaped into a pretzel and decorated with fine sugar.4 Danish butter cookies are made from butter, flour and sugar, and many are topped with sugar crystals.2 It is baked in Denmark, at Royal Dansk's factories in Nørre Snede and Ribe.1

Sources
  1. Our Danish Cookie Baking History, Royal Dansk. royal-dansk.com, read 1 October 2026.
  2. Butter cookie, Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 1 October 2026.
  3. The Enduring Appeal of Royal Dansk Butter Cookies, Vice (14 December 2017). vice.com, read 1 October 2026.
  4. Royal Dansk Danish Butter Cookies, Royal Dansk. royal-dansk.com, read 1 October 2026.

Last checked 1 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.