Not counting Choc Ripple, which are horrible.
You can get any number of chocolate-coated biscuits, but dammit I just want a simple chocolate shortbread or near offer. Hell, I’d settle for a giant Tiny Teddy, though those too are a bit industrial.
Just give me a pack of bourbons without the cream in, that’d do fine.
Is this some terribly rare niche interest all of a sudden? Am I really the only person in this country who would buy such a thing?
Yes I know I can make my own, it’s just tedious - and the lack of demand for anything like it confuses and enrages me.
Personally, I find chocolate mixed into in baked goods a waste of coco powder. The taste always is a let down.
Chocolate chips, yes. Chocolate bickies, no.
I take umbrage at the unwarranted sledging of ripples. Perhaps belvita breakfast cookies are more to your taste.
those belvita things are actually so good
Ways chocolate baked products get ruined (even one of these things is bad):
- Sugar too high. It might taste nice on the initial bite, but then 15 seconds later your mouth tastes disgusting. This continues for several minutes to half an hour, which you have to intentionally forget and ignore to be able to enjoy the rest of the product. Example: Timtams.
- Replacing cocoa butter with cheaper vegetable oils. Again it tastes fine initially, but then tastes weird as you go on. Most chocolate chip cookies do this. “Compound chocolate” drops sold for cooking are made like this, try eating those directly if you’re not familiar.
- Stupidly low amount of product in big packaging. I feel like a victim of a crime and never buy your stuff again.
I think all of the companies focus too much on (1) the initial purchase decision and (2) the initial flavour/sensation. They’re idiots that are prioritising specific metrics rather than “actually nice product”.
Florentines are the greatest ‘choc’ biscuit, imho. (Usually need to go to Italian mercato style places to get good ones)
Could have been Kingstons on the top, but they’re 42% sugar, it’s just too much.
PS. You may want to try Mcvitie’s Digestives for a simple choc biscuit.
Both Kingstons and choc Digestives are regular biscuits with chocolate coating/filling, so they’re not what OP is looking for.
They are excellent - but yeah, I’m looking for cocoa powder in the dough vs chocolate applied afterwards :)
OK, gotcha.
You may have to put that ‘El Dorado’ to bed and settle for Florentines :P
Otherwise, we have had success finding quality flavoured shortbread biscuits at the farmer’s markets type places. If they don’t make a choc flavour, you can at least talk face to face with the person who chooses and makes the flavours for the next week.
Personally I love Choc Ripple.
As a kid I loved Gollywogs. Unfortunately they got (rightly) hit by the cancellation hammer long before cancellations became commonplace. I don’t know when exactly, but probably over 10 years ago. It’s a shame they didn’t keep the same biscuit flavour and just change the shape & name.
Oreos are good. I often open them up, eat the cream, and set them aside, before eating just a whole bunch of choc bikkies sans cream at the end.
edit: don’t Coles and Woolies do double choc bikkies? Chocolate with chocolate chips?
Not sure if they count as a chocolate biscuit but I personally really love digestives.
+1 for Digestives, cheap (Aldi), delicious, available in dark chocolate and sugar-free and really high in fibre (which helps to regulate the glycaemic response).
I haven’t heard anyone say recently “I have too much fibre in my diet”.
I have a dietary restriction to excludes cocoa chocolate from my diet.
It is almost impossible to get packaged ice creams, restaurant deserts or sweet biscuits that don’t have some sort of chocolate in them.
Also carob is disgusting.
