Alternative names Sugar bean Place of origin Belgium | Type Confectionery | |
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Main ingredients Almonds or chocolate, sugar Similar Dragée, Turkish delight, Leblebi, Beschuit met muisjes, Churchkhela | ||
A suikerboon (Dutch), or sugar bean, is a type of sweet traditionally given on the occasion of the birth or baptism of a child in Belgium and parts of the Netherlands. In French, they are called dragées. It has strong resemblance with Jordan almonds and to Italian Confetti.
Originally sugar-coated almonds, they are now often sugar-coated chocolates of the same shape and size instead.
In the Netherlands, a more common tradition is to give beschuit met muisjes after the birth of a child.
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