Fox’s White Chocolate Chunkie Cookies

A go-to, bargain staple of the biscuit world is the Fox’s chunky cookies range. The variety half-coated with chocolate is a particular gem, but now there’s a new (at least at some point) white chocolate creation.

Transforming a milk chocolate treat into white chocolate is not exactly an atom-splitting development, but if it helps to produce more plastic waste it is surely a commercial winner.

A reliable part of these types of chunky biscuits is that they are usually cheap: the packet of cookies I bought cost £1, which is a price they can generally be found at without going on a Bear Grylls survival hunt. For the eight biscuits provided, I would say that you’re getting a good deal.

Equally positive is that each cookie is of a relatively good size and thickness, just shy of being what you would expect to get from a freshly baked one; not bad for a mass-produced supermarket filler. True to the cover of the packaging, every biscuit has a reasonable helping of white chocolate pieces woven throughout the golden interior.

Those white chocolate chunks are undeniably noticeable and blend expertly with the distinctly wheat-y base. There is a crucial crunch contained within each bite, as you’d expect from any product claiming to be a cookie.

But, overall, there’s just not a great deal of impact. Sure, there is a taste that your brain can identify as being white chocolate in a biscuit, but it doesn’t give the spectacular display of deliciousness that a genuine cookie should.

It doesn’t fight like a cookie should, threatening to smash your teeth and rip apart your mouth as the biscuit and chocolate collide in a fight for ultimate sensual joy. I ate them for the sugar, not the experience.

In essence, they’re just a bit boring.

Furthermore, to ignore a spelling mistake that even gets highlighted by Microsoft Word is a cardinal sin; so, to clarify, the biscuits should be described as chunky not “chunkie”. Unless, of course, the intended word was actually “junkie” – which is what I’ve become, having eaten a whole pack.

For a cookie (and for Fox’s use of the English language) it’s a bang average 3* out of 5.

By JAMES LEWIS
Wanderer, wonderer and editor of the Chocolate Dissection blog (which will ideally melt hearts rather than brains). Reliable with sarcasm, less so with a scalpel. Twitter: @IdeasJimbound


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