The take home message is, take these home and devour them all!

When I was at secondary school the canteen sold these amazing freshly baked cookies. I say amazing, looking back it’s clear that they were super low-quality. They were kind of like those cookies you can get in subway – you know they are made mainly out of fat, but you love them anyway.

They were the sort of cookies that have a crispy edge, but where the rest of the cookie is all melty and soft, and because they were warm and full of chocolate chunks, they were gooey and amazing. They were also only 15p – although I think that by the time I had left sixth form they had gone right up to 50p!

Since going gluten free cookies have been thin on the ground. I tried my hand at baking ginger biscuits, and since there has never been a recipe or post on my blog about baking ginger biscuits you can imagine how well that went. I also once made something that was ‘sort of’ like shortbread, but wasn’t. It fell to bits as soon as it was cool and it was pretty disgusting. Since I have my beloved quest bars to fulfil my snacking needs I don’t really miss biscuits, and although I have tried a few gluten free biscuits in the past year, they’ve all been the same – dry, crumbly, disappointing.

However, I spotted this pourtoi cookie on one of my many dashes through St Pancras station. I’ve walked past them over and over again, and due to a recent cancelled train situation I found myself buying one.

What was on offer?

There were two different cookies available, a chocolate cookie, and a double chocolate orange cookie. Clearly I went for the double chocolate and orange one, especially since I wasn’t able to eat any chocolate orange at Christmas!

I’d never heard of pourtoi before, and to be honest my expectations were pretty low. In the wrapper the cookie felt kind of hard, and I imagined that it was going to be yet another biscuit that immediatly shattered into a thousand gritty crumbs as soon as I opened it.

How wrong I was.

Rate it?

Yes, yes, yes! I saved this cookie tasting session for my Saturday post-flat-cleaning coffee. I’m glad I did because it would have been a waste to scarf it down on the bus.

The first thing I did was break it in half to get a better look inside. It was FULL of big chunks of Belgium chocolate, and it was soft. When I broke it in half it almost bent. A few crumbs fell off but it totally held itself together and it wasn’t dry at all.

The orange taste was perfect, the chocolate was dark enough to balance out the sweetness but this is a seriously indulgent cookie. At first it didn’t seem like a very big cookies, however, half was enough which is not a bad thing as these are pretty pricey.

This cost me £1.95 which, nearly made me shed a tear. That being said, I would absolutely buy one again.

I’d give this 5 out of 5, and some googling shows me that there is quite the range to try…. as a final bonus point they are also dairy free.

I got mine from Sourced, I’m not sure where else there stocked (anyone seen them!?) and I highly recommend them to all coeliacs and non-coeliacs alike!

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Review: Pourtoi chocolate orange cookie