The Good: Very true flavor, Generally good ingredients
The Bad: Comparatively expensive, Low on nutritional benefits, Hazelnuts overwhelm the chocolate flavor.
The Basics: For those who truly love hazelnuts and want a mildly chocolate treat, Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits fit the bill.
Not very long ago, my mom got me a food subscription box and in it was a box of Loacker Cappuccino Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits (reviewed here!) and they were all right. Also in the box was a full pack of Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits. Before trying the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits, I had no idea what "Creme Noisette" was; as it turns out, that is just a fancy term for "hazelnut." The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are a chocolate and hazelnut wafer cookie and they are pretty good.
The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are not at all perfect; they are good, but they are very nutty, with a minimal chocolate flavor to balance the nuts!
Basics
Loacker is an Italian company and the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits come in a box with a protective tray, that houses the dozen chocolate-covered wafer cookies. Each cookie is 1 7/8" long, 1" wide and 3/8" thick. The wafer cookies are kept well-protected and each chocolate-covered wafer cookie remains perfectly well-intact, even if it is not the most environmentally-respectful packaging.
Ease Of Preparation
Eating Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits is not a real challenge, simply unwrap the cookie tray within the cardboard overwrap and consume. Once one selects a cookie, all you have to do is stick it in your mouth and chew; there is nothing complicated or foreign about eating these cookies.
Taste
Opening the wrap around the tray of the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits smell surprisingly strongly of hazelnuts. The aroma that comes from the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits is almost entirely of the nutty hazelnuts, not anything even remotely like the chocolate coating!
On the tongue, the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are sweet, as one might expect. The buttery flavor of the hazelnuts blends nicely with the light, sweet chocolate. The wafer cookies within the chocolate shell compliments the nuts as more of a texture than a real flavor. The nutty hazelnuts quickly overwhelm the sweet chocolate flavor of the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits.
The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits leave a fairly dry aftertaste in the mouth after the last of them are consumed.
Nutrition
Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are intended as a sweet snack, not a full meal. Four of these cookies (weighing out at 33 grams) represents a single serving and they are not truly nutritious. Made primarily of milk chocolate, coconut oil, and hazelnuts, these cookies are not at all an all-natural food product. The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits were produced on equipment that forces them to add a disclaimer about almonds and obviously anyone with a milk or hazelnut allergy should avoid them.
Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits have 190 calories for a single serving, 100 of which are from fat. A full serving represents 34% of one's RDA of saturated fat and they have 5mg of cholesterol. The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are exceptionally low in sodium for a cookie, having only 30 mg (1% RDA) per serving. The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits have 3 grams of protein, but no other real nutrients. As one who is working on getting heart-healthy, I was happy they had even a single gram of dietary fiber.
Storage/Cleanup
Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are easy to care for and clean up. Unopened, they have a pretty short shelf life; our box, which arrived just over a month ago, had an expiration date of February 2017. Kept sealed, I am sure they would have lasted at least that long. As cookies, they can leave crumbs, but because the cookies are coated in chocolate, the milk chocolate can melt and require one to wash up, lest they leave milk chocolate fingerprints all over!
Overall
The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are very true to their flavor, even if the nuttiness overwhelms the chocolate in such a way that chocolate fans might not enjoy quite as much. Despite that, they are well worth trying for anyone looking for a real hazelnut and chocolate treat!
For other reviews of cookies, please check out my reviews of:
Chips Ahoy! Thins Cinnamon Sugar cookies
Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies
Seth Greenberg’s Orange Brownie Crunch
5.5/10
For other food and drink reviews, please visit my Food And Drink Review Index Page for an organized listing!
© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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