Beneath its purple shell, the cuberdon holds a soft syrup that keeps changing. It is its greatest pleasure… and the reason it is difficult to export.

One is light, rectangular and crisp; the other dense, irregular and caramelised. Belgium has not one waffle, but two great personalities.

Before travelling into cafés and desserts around the world, speculoos was a festive biscuit shaped in wooden moulds and associated with Saint Nicholas Day.