Boasting again! (McVities Boasters)

Member Name: wendybull

Product:	McVities Boasters
Date:	16/01/06 (444 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Delicious. Big biscuits

Disadvantages: Price

I recently found these biscuits while shopping in Iceland, (the supermarket not the country) and thought I would give them a go.

They cost me at the time £1.03 for a packet, but I was in there today and they were on buy one get one free and I got two packets for £1.00. (Iceland’s new policy of rounding everything to tens and pounds). So here goes:

THE PACKET:

It is a lovely colour blue. I would describe it as almost violet but not so vivid and across the top is the word "BOASTERS" in big white capitals. They are made by McVities, which is a trusted biscuit maker so you feel confident they will be a nice biscuit. There is a picture of three gorgeous looking cookie type biscuits on the front, covered with lots of chocolate chips and hazelnuts. I wonder if there will be as many choc drops etc inside the actual biscuits when I open the packet. Next to the picture is the description.. Delicious Biscuits Baked with Chunks of Belgian Chocolate and Hazelnuts. Sounds and looks delicious. It is a 150g packet.

THE SMELL:

Ok, I have opened the packet and the smell of cookie mixture hits you immediately. You can smell the hazelnuts more than the chocolate but there is a small hint of Belgian chocolate to smell.

THE TASTE:

Well, disappointingly you only get 9 biscuits in one of these packets so they won't last long if you really like them. Taking a quite large round biscuit out of the packet it feels quite light and there are visibly chunks of nut and chocolate on the top. Not as much as the picture but not bad. Taking a bit the first thing I notice is that the biscuit part is very crumbly. Definitely not a dunking biscuit I would say, as it would collapse in the cup but really light and airy to the taste. There are more chocolate chunks and nuts as you bite into it and the chunks are really fat and you can taste them separately to the biscuit. Same goes for the nuts. In a lot of chocolate chip cookies the chocolate blends into the taste of the biscuit but these are quite separate tastes, merging as you chew. The biscuit itself is like a cross between very light shortbread and a regular cookie. Definitely not the sort of biscuit you can only have one of.

My son and daughter had one the same time as me. My daughter seems to be of my opinion and is tucking into hers - although there are crumbs and nuts dropping everywhere, but my son took one bite and threw it in the bin.!! No sense! LOL

NUTRINIONAL STUFF:

91 calories per biscuits
5.6g of fat per biscuit. This is quite high isn't it?

It also says it may contain traces of sesame seeds and under this it says contains: nuts, milk, eggs, soya and gluten.

Overall I would recommend these biscuits because although you only get 9 per pack they are pretty big compared to your average biscuit and are really tasty. The chocolate chunks are the best I have tasted in a biscuits and although I'm not really a nut lover the hazelnuts are very complimentary to the biscuit. The price is quite high at a £1 per pack but if you get them on offer like I did today they are great value.

The only other thing I would say is that as the biscuit is so light and crumbly you stand a high chance of having broken biscuits when you open the packet - but if like me you are going to eat them straight out of the packet - and usually all of them at once (blush) it doesn't really matter.

Hope you buy and enjoy.

xx

Summary: Buy these biscuits - they are fine!