Hey babes, Jess here and today, oh gosh, Danish Buttercookies are back. I'm gonna put these down first though. Dear cut! So if you're new to the channel, I covered Danish Buttercookies before, but I felt it was unresolved. It really was a video I shot in five minutes based on what I found in the pharmacy. And through the comments, I found a few things that I agreed on and wanted to retest. One, I really needed to try Kelsens, which is actually over here today, and two, I needed to try them with tea. Ideally, milk tea. So we'll do both tests today. That being said, for those of you who wanted me to try Kelsens, Royal Dawn's gives me by the same company. Just the thing I found when I was searching this out. And I also picked up the brand Denysa, I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that right, because it was at my local co-op, I thought why not continue the tradition of finding cookie somewhere and putting them in the video. I'm gonna start with Denysa, Denysa, because it's right here, and this is heavy. They're all lovely golden brown, but also I'm noticing immediately, as it looks like we've got currents in this round. Okay, it smells very buttery, but it's kind of a sweet buttery note with a little bit of that coconut in the background. And this time, like last time, I'm gonna try my favorite, which is the pretzel shape. I just love the sugar-bowl and zelmus. Cheers! It's one thing of, as a Danish butter cookie, it's sweet, it's buttery, there's a little hint of coconut in the background, kind of a rounding note, and it's very dry, very, very dry. Like, I'm gonna get some water dry. I will say the water helps, it makes it more of a delicate cookie. I can get more of a flavor, but it's very much butter-based. Butter, and that nice caramelization at the end, just a good solid dry cookie. Next, last time, Victor Roya Donsk. So one thing that's nice here, unlike with the Denysa, is that you've got a lot of information about the cookies themselves, but I think it's quite handy, pretzel again. This is much sweeter. Like, the sugar comes through as a really sharp note, and then the butter underneath it. I can really prefer the Denysa so far just to have that much butter in a butter cookie, but it's got a lot of vanilla as well. So it's a sweet and sharp cookie in comparison, and a bit more crumbly. And I will see this kind of an artificialness going on that I remember from last time, which some of the commented that Roya Donsk had changed their recipe, and I believe that based on that, that is a different cookie than what I remember. The Denysa is much, much closer. Even with water, it's just very sweet. I'm gonna try their coconut. It's a fun-work buttery cookie, even with the coconut in there. This is the butter cookie. It does very much taste of sweetened dried coconut, though, so you'll be able to get that sweetness in your coconut, but it's a crisp buttery cookie with a strong coconut note. Okay, backing up. I want to try the current crunch, actually, now given how that went. I did say this would be more thorough, and I'm just going forward here. So let's try the current crunch. And are we getting a crunch? As much as the cookie is much area, and so you get a more gentle crispness as opposed to the heaviness closer to the shortbread, and the currents are in there giving it a little bit of chew, which is very nice. I actually am really just liking this box altogether. Last, certainly not least, around one. We have the Kelton. We've got bi-appointments in the Danish Court. Very fancy. This is a ton of cookie. This was the only size I could get. It's just cookie for days. I'm gonna go back to pretzel for my classic. Cheers. It's got a similar softness to royal donk. There's a note in there, though, I'm having trouble placing that is kind of artificial, sadly. It's not like floral. It's not like coconut, just sort of in the background kind of like how I think of vanilla. I will say that vanilla is not actually listed as an ingredient, so it could be a vanilla. But it's a similar dryness, a similar vanilla e-node. There's butter, but it's not super strong. It's really sugar first. I want to try their current one, though. It's a very dry cookie, but it reminds me a lot of eating a super crispy, open-up raisin cookie with currents instead of raisins. Very dry, though. Very dry. Wow. Round one goes to a donnasa. Like, this is the one that tastes the most like a butter cookie. It's got butter. It's got sugar. It's got vanilla. It tastes like what I remember. More so than royal donk says right now. I'm kind of having like a moment of confusion over that. But yeah, point donnasa. Round two, tea time. This is the house standard milk tea. It's an asom with a lot of milk and a lot of brown and dimer on our sugars. Because that's what sugar I felt like putting in today. It makes a pretty strong gappa. I will say that. We're going to start with royal donk and their country style cookie. Mainly because I thought like the most neutral and least amount of sugar will be a good one to start here. I don't add a ton of sugar to an already sweet tea. Oh, it's dry. The tea softens the cookie's texture. So it goes from being very dry to some ants more like a shortbread. A little bit of gif and a little bit of softness and a nice chew. I do think it improves the texture considerably. But I'm not really getting a better but similar parts thing here. I'm having tea. I'm having a cookie. And together they're just kind of soft tea cookie. And I want something to happen there and I'm not getting it. Next we'll try the kelsens. Same thing. The texture sticks around more which I really appreciate that it's not just completely dissolving in the tea. But again, it's just kind of sweet vanilla. I'm not really getting much else or much of a benefit. Dunkin does help here. It's just enough liquid from the tea that the cookie stays together really well. And you get a little bit more of a tea flavor and a lot more of the butter. So actually enhances the butteriness quite a fair bit. Kelsen at least is a much better cookie in the tea. Last, not least, don't miss it. With the tea the most tender, the most vanilla flavored. Dang, really nice. Try it dunked. It's still quite a crisp cookie. Even with a bit of tea in it. But it gives better, closer again to shortbread. And it's really nice. I get a nice vanilla note at the end. I'm really liking how it tastes with the tea. Yeah, point again to Donasa. Alright, there is definitely something to be said for buying cookies on a whim when it comes to Danish butter cookies. Because the one I picked up on a whim wins again. It's got the most butter, it's got the most vanilla, it holds its own in tea. This is the cookie I'd get next year based on how things are going. I don't know what's happening with Royal Dawn's in Kelsen. Maybe there was an internal change because same company. And they have very similar textures and similar notes. Basically if I was getting a cookie from a tin right now, I would get these, the Donasa. Note that I said though, from a tin, because my actual favorite Danish butter cookie. Are the ones I've been making a few weeks ago. I was all, you know what? I need to compare to Danish butter cookies. How hard are they to make? Can't be that hard to make. Turns out they're not that hard to make at all. These are from Gemma of Bigger Bolder Baking. And I have been adoring them. I've been making like half batches with half an egg. It's just because it's a lot of butter. Like four ounces of butter and half an egg. Also, these are better on day two. The downside you're going to have is that they're very heavy on the vanilla list this version. I'm going to tweak it more personally. And then also they're not very crisp. So if you're looking for a crisp cookie to have a tea, this is not the Richter. I still go back to Donasa. You know, I've never had them with tea, so let's try it. That's really good actually. It mellows out the vanilla, so you have a tea-centred, softly buttery cookie. So either I hope you try Donasa or make some of yourself. I get not always wanting to make cookies. And these last are really long times. So do whatever your heart desires and whatever your sewing kit needs desire. Because clearly everyone needs a good sewing kit and some cookies. So that wraps up my second take on Danish butter cookies. Donasa, the unexpected winner. Still going to make lots of cookies at home too. I actually I'd love to know in the comments if you have a favorite cookie or a favorite recipe. Because clearly I didn't cover everybody. I didn't cover every flavor of these brands. There's way more to cover here. There's always going to be an awesome sewing kit waiting for all of you hopefully. And with that I'll catch you next time. Bye guys! I feel like with this many sewing kits I should diversify like maybe the top one will be a sewing kit and the bottom for crochet. I haven't decided yet. Options.