In my
review of Milka's Choco Moo Cookies I mentioned how they reminded me of
Chocolate Digestive Biscuits. Well, these new Time Out Cookies are actually
much closer to the original chocolate coated digestive biscuits in that they
are not made with white flour instead they have 17% whole wheat flour and 30%
oatmeal.
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Each Time
Out Cookie is 79 calories, which is by no means a low calorie cookie. Still,
being that it's made of whole wheat and oatmeal it's somewhat more healthy and
you may feel a bit more "satisfied" after eating these Time Out
Cookies than you would feel after eating a cookie made of white flour. In that
way they are better for you than the Milka cookies. On the other hand, these
Time Out Cookies also have plenty of sugar and a bottom layer of milk-chocolate.
I'm guessing that’s what hikes up the calorie count.
The press
release claimed these cookies are "homemade style". I completely
disagree. Although I thought they were OK, in my opinion they seemed very "commercial"
and not "homemade style" in any way.
These Time
Out Cookies are thinner than the Milka Choco Moo Cookies. I found them to be
very crispy with a buttery taste; even though they don’t actually have butter
in them, instead they are made with vegetable oil, so maybe what I really mean
is that they were somewhat "oily".
The milk-chocolate
layer on the bottom is OK but, I much preferred the milk-chocolate on Milka's
cookie.
I liked
that each 2 cookies are "individually" wrapped; it makes it very
convenient to take them as a snack when you're on the go. You also get the
extra benefit of protecting the rest of the box from going stale, always a good
thing in my book.
Bottom Line: for
a whole wheat and oatmeal mass produced cookie, I thought these Time Out
Cookies were OK. I think there are people that will really enjoy them. I
personally didn’t love them or hate them. I do think the fact that they are
made with whole wheat and oatmeal is a good thing but they are still 158
calories per packet.
195 gram
Box – 6 packets of 2 cookies - 11.90 NIS
Kosher
Dairy triangle K D
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Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this
review. All opinions are my own.
The cookie itself is crunchy and somewhat dry, kind of like a tea biscuit but much thicker. In my opinion they were much tastier, than say Osem's Petit Beurre biscuits. I thought they were sweet but not overly so. I also liked the shiny top layer of the cookie. I'm guessing it came from a thin brushed on egg wash, but I don’t know for sure. All in all, I thought the cookie was the perfect base to let the rich creamy milk-chocolate, which Milka is so known for, be the real star of this treat.
These cookies nostalgically reminded me of chocolate digestive biscuits that I ate quite a few of when I was in Britain, but the cookie part of this Choco Moo is more "plain" and closer to a tea biscuit rather than a "richer" , more whole grain, classic digestive biscuit. With all due respect to chocolate coated digestive biscuits, I thought the quality of Milka's milk-chocolate absolutely elevated these Choco Moo biscuits for me. I would even go so far as to say, these Milka biscuits surpassed any and all of the chocolate digestive biscuits I so fondly remember. 
I liked that the top of the wrapper has a re-closable "lid". "Surprise surprise" it actually works! It seems to have a good quality adhesive. Even though I opened and closed it quite a lot, it still stuck and stayed "glued" time and time again. I also thought that the width of the "tape" on the sides of the part that you lift open was perfect. Even if I didn’t close it exactly the way it was originally wrapped there was still enough of the tape to "catch" the side of the wrapper and seal up nicely. I think all cookie companies should take a lesson from this Milka wrapper. 
