# Danish Butter Cookies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387 "2000-11-08T23:43:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/1 "2000-11-08T23:43:31Z")
They were on sale. You know the ones I mean… that big round navy blue tin with the square, circular, and pretzel shaped cookies inside. They are uniformly bland and flavorless, all identical in everything but appearance. AND TOTALLY ADDICTING! I keep having to stash the tin away… it’s half empty and I only bought it yesterday! What is it with these things?? Is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/2 "2000-11-09T00:25:01Z")
Oh yeah. I got a friend who is 91 years young and she always serves those things after lunch. mmmm good. ---
**Author:** ![Wanderlust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc29f/32.png) [@Wanderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wanderlust)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/3 "2000-11-09T00:39:42Z")
It’s the tin itself. Hypnotic images of windmills, right? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/4 "2000-11-09T00:54:11Z")
Check the ingredients on the label **OpalCat**. If it mentions vanillan or oils of any sort, that explains why you haven’t finished the entire tin yet. Please go to the recipe thread in my sig link. You will find a good recipe at location 19 on page one of the thread. I can still remember my Bedstemor (Grandma in Danish to alla youse) making sheet after sheet of these cookies when I was a lad. And yes, they are addictive, as is most Danish food. ---
**Author:** ![Peta\_Tzunami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@Peta\_Tzunami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peta_Tzunami)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/5 "2000-11-09T00:58:17Z")
You’re not alone Opalcat–another Danish cookie adoring fan here. ---
**Author:** ![tiggeril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggeril/32/7234_2.png) [@tiggeril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiggeril)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/6 "2000-11-09T01:04:51Z")
I haven’t had those in years. Now I want some. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/7 "2000-11-09T01:08:18Z")
PS: Be sure to use real butter (try to find the Tillamook or Danish Creamery brands if you can) when you make these cookies. It is one of the reasons that your store bought ones lack in flavor. Danish _Lurpak_ butter is the best but it is very difficult to find. Also be sure to make _vanillasukker_ by burying a slit open vanilla bean pod in a tall jar of sugar for a week or two ahead of time. Be sure to use the highest quality Madagascar vanilla bean extract when making these cookies. You’ll be glad you did. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/8 "2000-11-09T01:12:23Z")
mmm… Danish Lurpak… haven’t had that stuff since i was in High School… man I miss living overseas ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/9 "2000-11-09T01:27:34Z")
mmmmmmm…Butter cookies. Dipped in Nutella. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![single\_files](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@single\_files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/single_files)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/10 "2000-11-09T01:55:06Z")
Being a mail carrier, I get LOTS of these cookies at Christmas time. Last year, I had set a large unopened tin in the back seat and forgotten about it. One morning I was running late, skipped breakfast, and halfway to work I remembered the cookies. I reached behind me and grabbed the tin, and just as I got them over the front seat (still doing 65 mph) the lid flew off and I was covered in cookies and those little white cupcake paper looking things. Turns out my son and his buddies had gotten the munchies one night and had raided the cookies. It’s almost Christmas again. Yum!!! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/11 "2000-11-09T15:36:15Z")
Yum, Danish butter cookies. Almost as good as Danish wedding cookies. I think I want to go there, but only for dessert. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/12 "2000-11-10T07:47:53Z")
Why is it that they’re so addictive, when they aren’t really _that_ good? Do they use Latka’s recipe? ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/danish-butter-cookies/40387/13 "2000-11-10T08:37:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doctor Jackson \* > \*\*I think I want to go there, but only for dessert. \*\* You’re in luck. Dessert lasts a mighty long time in Denmark.