Deventer Cake shop / Deventer Koekwinkel

The well-known delicacy “Deventer koek” has given the city a special nickname: Koekstad (cake city). Since the end of the Middle Ages, the Deventer cake has been baked according to carefully recorded and strictly adhered to municipal instructions. Nowadays, the Deventer biscuit is produced in the Continental Bakeries factory. If you want to take the famous cookie home as a souvenir, you can visit the Deventer Cookie Shop on the Brink. Here you can also purchase the delicacy in special gift packaging.

The history of the Deventer cake goes back to the Middle Ages. According to a note from the city secretary Nicolaas Verheyden from 1534, the first ordinance on the baking of Deventer cake dates from 1417. This ordinance determines in detail the appearance and weight of the large and small cakes: they must be long and narrow and three respectively. and weigh two pounds. The ordinance had a protective character, because no one was allowed to produce cakes in another city or have cakes baked outside Deventer. The cookie was a Deventer product and had to remain so. The cake bakers had to swear an oath to the ordinance, and the polder people monitored compliance on behalf of the guild...