Vegans can't eat Maryland Cookies, but we can indulge in their new stablemates... Maryland Snapjacks. It's a sad fact that the choc chips in Burton's Maryland Cookies are actually dairy-free, but the biscuits themselves contain whey powder. Not so with these new Snapjacks, which are crunchy dunking style biscuits, perfect to accompany a lovely brew (that's a cup of tea...for US readers...):
The two new flavours are honeycomb and orange. Orange as a biscuit flavour is not too common, and we have to say we'd have preferred lemon, but orange it is, and a pleasant mild orange flavour too. The orange biscuits are not great for dunking in tea as the flavours clash a little.
The honeycomb flavour (no bees harmed) is altogether better for dunking, having a lovely sweet vanilla caramel flavour that goes great with a cuppa. If you don't like ginger snaps, but want a similar crunchy biscuit, these could be perfect for you.
We hope that Snapjacks catch on... they could be a new vegan staple on the biscuit shelf alongside hob-nobs and ginger nuts.
Verdict: Slam Dunk
Veganoo Score: ★★★★☆
Maryland Snapjacks (biscuits). Orange/Honeycomb
Maryland Snapjacks (biscuits). Orange/Honeycomb
Footnote: Ingredients
Here are the ingredients panels from the packs we reviewed.
Are you assuming that the flavouring is not made from honey?
ReplyDeleteManufacturers keep their flavourings a secret, but we think it's unlikely that there is honey in there, otherwise they'd make a feature of it. Our review policy is that if the declared ingredients don't contain animal products we'll review something as vegan. Exceptions to this would be where animal ingredients are common in the processing of the product, but are not present in the final product, such as finings in alcohol.
ReplyDeleteAlso Anon, honeycomb (also known as cinder toffee) is not usually made from or with honey, it's just a caramelised sugar kind of flavour. It's called honeycomb because it kind of resembles honeycomb, a stiff aerated caramel.
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