A chewy digestive (McVities Caramel Digestive Biscuits)

Member Name: crazypixie

Product:	McVities Caramel Digestive Biscuits
Date:	21/06/09 (50 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Taste nice

Disadvantages: Expensive and unhealthy

I bought these biscuits the other day as a treat when I spotted them on offer at £1 in Morrisons. I'm not really a big biscuit eater, but I do like a digestive to dip in my tea on occasion.

They come in the usual plastic wrapper, with a tear off strip near one end. You just pull the end of the strip to open the pack, and then either empty the biscuits into a container or put the end of the wrapper back into the top of the pack to keep them fresh.

The biscuits are smaller than your average digestive biscuit, at about a 6cm diameter, but it's still a decent size for a biscuit. They are quite thick, a little thicker than a normal mcvities digestive, but that's because of the layers of caramel and chocolate on top.

They have a thin layer of caramel topped off with a thin layer of chocolate on one side of the biscuit. The biscuit itself is not that great. I've never been a big fan of McVities digestives, preferring Tesco Value ones for both taste and texture, but with the chocolate and caramel added it does work well. The texture of the biscuit is quite bitty, but it holds together well when dipped in tea. The caramel is chewy and with the chocolate is very nice.

The whole biscuit does taste lovely, it's not too sweet and the flavours work really well together. It's great for dipping as the caramel seems to help the biscuit hold together even better, so you don't end up with half a biscuit in the bottom of your brew.

Each biscuit gives you a whopping 81 calories, 5.3g of sugar, and 3.7g of fat (1.9g of which is saturates), so they're a really unhealthy choice of biscuit. They're great if you can stop after just 1 or 2, but they're rather addictive, and that could be difficult!

Summary: A lovely treat