Antwerpse Handjes is a signature dish of Belgium; we have verified places to eat it in Antwerp. Hand-shaped butter cookies topped with sliced almonds, in three sizes and an optional chocolate-shell variant. Start with where to eat Antwerpse Handjes in Antwerp.
Antwerpse Handjes · Antwerp
Hand-shaped butter cookies topped with sliced almonds, in three sizes and an optional chocolate-shell variant. The official biscuit of Antwerp since 1934.
Pastry chef Jos Hakker created the Antwerpse handje in 1934 as a tribute to the Brabo legend. The Roman soldier Silvius Brabo cut off the giant Druon Antigoon's hand and threw it into the Schelde; the act of hand-throwing in Dutch, hand werpen, gave the city its name. The biscuit was declared Antwerp's official cookie. Hakker's granddaughter still endorses Philip's Biscuits as closest to the original recipe.
Where to eat in Antwerp:
- Philip's Biscuits
- DelRey
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