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A hard coffee sweet with cream, from The Hague. Over two hundred years old.
Baron Hop
Hendrik Hop, an envoy in The Hague around 1792, left his coffee with cream on the stove until it thickened. What remained was a chewy mass he liked. His confectioner turned it into sweets.
Why hard
The sweet is boiled sugar with coffee extract and cream. It dissolves slowly and is not meant to be bitten.
The tin
Loose in a tin or wrapped singly. The tin with its classic label is a Hague souvenir in itself.
Protected name
Haagse hopjes is a registered regional designation. Sweets from elsewhere may be coffee sweets, not hopjes.
Where to find them
Sweet shops in The Hague, and cafés in the city that serve them with coffee.