BETTER BUTTER COOKIES

Danish butter cookies – the same ones that came as an assortment in a metal tin – was once a sign of luxury in Singapore decades ago. Now, the confection is making its comeback with Leckerbaer, a chain founded by Jakob and Gabi Mogensen, two pastry chefs who have made their rounds in various Michelin-starred restaurants in Scandinavia. The butter cookies, known as småkager, are available in a rotating cast of seasonal flavours, including a raspberry jam sandwich and calamansi-spiked vanilla. The Singaporean outlet is also a fully realised cafe, offering drinks and pastries with a Nordic spin like a lemon and sea buckthorn tart and a pea and avocado tart.