Fox’s Chunkie Cookies Triple Chocolate

How many versions of chunky cookies can Fox’s possibly squeeze out?

As well as the white chocolate biscuits I’ve already reviewed, there are also half-coated chocolate and milk chocolate designs. Once upon a time there existed a dark chocolate form and even an option for raspberries and hazelnuts. Because who doesn’t love that combination?

Personally, I’m eagerly anticipating the dolphin meat and moon rock creations.

But in the meantime I’ve had to munch through a packet of triple chocolate cookies.

On first sight they look like a richly chocolatey offering, the deeply dark biscuit showcasing lumps of white and milk chocolate scattered throughout. My immediate thought was that they wouldn’t look out of place alongside fresh cookies that are newly baked for sale every day in some quaint village bakery.

Truthfully though, they are rather small. For me a cookie should be a grand affair that requires some effort to eat, not just disappear in a single bite. They look like they’ve been made for ladybirds.

Likewise, the chocolate pieces contained within – although adding a crucial, creamy punch to the taste – are smaller than Jeremy Clarkson’s patience.

Unfortunately, there are not enough chocolate chunks to make the biscuits particularly spectacular to eat. The biscuit itself tastes disappointingly bland. For a colour suggesting a lavish indulgence of chocolate there really just isn’t a lot of impact.

You do get a handsome eight biscuits in each packet (which itself can often be bought for a single pound coin), so the value for money definitely exists.

But the eating experience is not a great one. The cookies are presented as an alternative to luxury brands, but frankly they are too small and tasteless to realistically achieve this. They’re not really suitable to take on a basic snack-time biscuit either, such as Mcvities’ chocolate Hobnobs or Fox’s own chocolate creams.

Fox’s Chunkie Cookies Triple Chocolate does not, therefore, live up to the elegancy insinuated by its packaging. It may well be generous in the number of biscuits it offers and cheap to buy, but it certainly isn’t cheerful.

2* 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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