More cookie help

Since someone else got their cookie question answered today, perhaps one of you can help me. I hadn't thought about this for years. It's kind of an international roadfood question.

Twenty years ago (1983, to be precise), I spent a semester
"studying" in Paris. While there, I visited Amsterdam. My non-cookie experiences in Amsterdam are probably far more interesting than what I'm about to bring up, but nonetheless...I became addicted to this roundish, fit-in-your-palm, thin cookie.

To the best of my hazy recollection, it kind of looked like a thiner, miniature version of an Eggo waffle, but a little darker and with more "holes" (or squares, or whatever you'd call the indentations.) The cookie might have been vanilla or almond, but it tasted like the whole thing had been dipped in honey. They were kind of chewy: didn't snap when you bit into it.

They were incredible. Back in Paris, I found one bakery that sold them. Had to travel an hour to get them. I'd also bought them at bakeries in Amsterdam. So, I probably never knew their name.

Can anyone possibly help? I know memories can grow sweeter with age, but I swear those cookies were amazing.

Could it have been "Ho Ho's"? Would love to hear some more adventures.
carl reitz

Any chance you're talking about Pizzelles? They are an italian paperthin waffle cookie. I see them in supermarkets all the time in a red and white box.

Sure sounds like pizelles to me, too. You can buy a pizelle iron and make them yourself, too. They have ones with all different shapes in them. My adopted Italian mom used to make them around Christmas. You could smell the anisette in the house for days after it seemed.

They are still one of my favorites, whenever I can get them -- probably mostly because they remind me of mom.

Steve