Who doesn’t like receiving a present in the mail, especially when it reveals a parcel as pretty as this?
Inside, I found two boxes of Waterthins Chocolate Selection biscuits. The box on the left are ‘Creme Delights’ and what looks like caramel oozing out is actually ‘cocoa nut creme’. The box on the right are Wafer Straws.
They were opened just in time for Mrs Krups to make my morning coffee and they had a delicious burnt-sugar- toffee smell that wafted up as I was leaning in to take a photograph.
Firstly, the Creme Delight. It has a pretty generously-thick disc of milk chocolate on the top (with a not-so-shabby 32% cocoa solids), covering their version of the creamy Tim Tam filling (also on par) and a fine-crumb base (hence the powdery stuff on the top of the chocolate) that is one of the best factory-made biccies I’ve eaten in a long time. Om nom nom, two biscuits down……
Onto the Wafer Straws. I’ll be honest right out and say that wafer has never really rocked my world. If I had to take ‘em or leave ‘em, I tend to walk off and not look back. As for these fellas, they were pretty wide to be a straw until I took a bite and realised that they were hollow – a couple of minutes earlier I could have tried slurping my coffee through one! The wafer in this is delightfully crisp and somehow holds up against the thickness of the chocolate and there’s a hint of hazelnut flavour lurking in the background as well. These are many many notches above your standard crap-wafer-and-thin-chocolate-gunk that’s normally available. Om nom nom, three more down…..
Okay, so I’ve established that I *love* the way they taste and have since seen them on the top shelf in the chocolate biscuit aisle at Woolworths (Tim Tams are at eye-level, so Waterthins are kind of hidden), so what’s the catch? A couple, actually. Some of the ingredients don’t make for happy reading – there’s no hazelnut, it’s peanut paste; vegetable fat is in both biscuits and they’re made in Poland.
This is where, as a chocolate reviewer who wakes up every single morning with the first thought, “I want chocolate” before her face has even unfolded or her bladder emptied, I find myself in a dilemma. Utterly delicious and addictive vs vege fat and Poland.
Thoughts anyone?
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