Costco Jules Destrooper Belgian Butter Biscuits Review

These Jules Destrooper Belgian Butter Biscuits don’t look super exciting, but they’ve been back at Costco for a few holiday seasons now, so they must have quite a few fans out there! I first reviewed them back in 2020 and 2023. The flavors in the box have changed since last year then and the price is a lot higher now. Are these crispy cookies good enough that we should expect them to keep showing up at Costco during the holidays for many years to come?

Location in Store

These are located in the Christmas/seasonal aisle at Costco near the Kelsen Danish Butter Biscuits, David’s Butter Pecan Meltaways, Rondoletti Rolled Wafers and the Karen’s Bakery Danish Puff Pastries. The item number is 1834888.

Taste

I originally reviewed these in 2020 and at the time there were three different kinds of butter biscuits in the box, butter crisps, butter waffles and almond thins. In 2023 they had three kids as well, original, caramel dipped and dark chocolate-dipped butter biscuits.

The box in 2024 has a big variety of assorted biscuits! In the box there are butter crisps, almond thin, butter waffles, chocolate thins and almond florentines. I tried each kind and wrote notes on each kind!

The butter crisp is a bit boring but still tasty. It reminds me of a sweeter waffle cone in the form of a cookie with a hint of caramel flavor. It would be great dunked in tea or coffee or served with ice cream or gelato.

Almond Thins – very thin, crispy and surprisingly sweet; pretty good; reminds me of something, but I don’t know what.

Butter Waffles – lighter and more buttery than the Butter Crisps; the flavor is a bit odd though; I prefer the Butter Crisps

Chocolate Thins – sweet, rich and chocolatey with a crunchy center; chocolate seemed like it was good quality; the center doesn’t add much flavor, so they pretty much taste like the chocolate coating; dark, milk and white were all good in their own ways

Almond Florentines – The Florentine part was very hard and crunchy and a bit sticky/chewy; there’s a thick, large dab of chocolate on each one; I found the Florentine on the dark chocolate one tasted weird, almost cardboardy or something; the white chocolate one had a noticeable citrus flavor that was really nice; the milk chocolate one was sweet and better than the dark chocolate one, but didn’t have the citrus flavor either.

All of the kinds of Belgian butter biscuits are crispy, crunchy and thin which is nice if you’re someone who doesn’t like soft cookies!

Cost

I paid $8.99 Canadian for the 650-gram box of Jules Destrooper Belgian Butter Biscuits in 2020. In 2023, the 700-gram box cost $11.99 Canadian but had different biscuits than it did in 2020.

Now in 2024 the 650 gram box costs $13.99 Canadian but there are different flavors of biscuits in the box than the previous years. There are four sleeves of biscuits in the box.

Convenience

These biscuits are extremely simple but also versatile. They can be served with hot chocolate, tea, coffee, ice cream or gelato. The best-before date is about seven months from the date I purchased the biscuits.

Nutrition

Calories

Five cookies contain 220 calories, nine grams of fat, 30 grams of carbohydrates, two grams of fibre, 18 grams of sugar, three grams of protein and 100 milligrams of sodium.

Ingredients

The ingredients list for the butter crisps, almond thins and butter waffles are pretty short and sweet with flour, sugar, butter and eggs being the main ingredients. The ingredients list for the chocolate thins and almond florentines are a bit longer with ingredients like chocolate, almonds and candied fruit.

The biscuits contain wheat, eggs, milk, almonds and may contain hazelnuts, cashews, pecan nuts, macadamia nuts and other gluten.

Scoring

Taste: 7.5/10

Cost: 7.5/10

Convenience: 10/10

Nutrition: 1/10 Not healthy but I like that some have short and simple ingredients.

Overall

Give it a try!

I like the new flavors this year, I don’t tend to love crispy/hard biscuits but these are pretty good.

Have you tried these Jules Destrooper Butter Biscuits from Costco? What did you think of them?

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