Arnott's Tim Tam 9 x Chewy Caramel Chocolatey Biscuit Bars, 175g
Caramel is the only thing here that interrupts the chocolate, and it is doing more work than a flavour name usually does. Everything else about the build stays exactly where it was. It is aimed squarely at anyone who finds a bar of one continuous note wearing by the end, and it will do nothing for anyone who found the range too sweet to begin with. Wheat in the biscuit, dairy in the chocolate and the caramel, and the packet has the rest.
Arnott's Tim Tam 9 x Chewy Caramel Chocolatey Biscuit Bars, in brief.
Arnott's Tim Tam 9 x Chewy Caramel Chocolatey Biscuit Bars is nine fully coated chocolate sandwich bars with a chewy caramel layer, 175g in the pack.
Caramel is a sugar structure rather than a fat one, so it stretches instead of melting and the finish runs on well past the chocolate. Our view: keep the Tim Tam Slam for the original and eat this one dry.
Caramel behaves differently from a soft filling and that is the whole character of this bar. A chocolate filling melts close to body temperature and releases all at once. A chewy caramel is a sugar structure rather than a fat one: it softens and stretches under warmth instead of flowing, it pulls when you bite, and it holds on to the palate long after the chocolate has gone. In practice you get a longer, slower bite than the original gives you, and a finish that runs on considerably further.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Storage, serving temperature and pairings are covered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Arnott's
Arnott's is an Australian biscuit maker of long standing and the Tim Tam is its best-known product by a wide margin. The bar is bound up with a drinking ritual, the Tim Tam Slam, in which two opposite corners are bitten off and the biscuit is used as a straw for a hot drink until the middle melts. That is an established practice rather than a line invented for this listing. Our honest view of this particular version is that the Slam is less reliable with a caramel middle than with a plain filling, because caramel softens and stretches where a chocolate filling flows, so we would treat the caramel bar as an eating biscuit and keep the Slam for the original.
The ingredient list, the full allergen advice, any certification marks, the country of origin and the best-before date are on the pack itself.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
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Count: 9 bars, the number carried in the product name and the figure behind every calculation here.
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Weight: 175g net across the nine, which is about 19.4g each, and slightly heavier per bar than the original version.
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The build: two biscuit layers, a chewy caramel layer with the filling between them, and chocolate over the whole assembly.
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What it is not: not the version to slam, not a light biscuit, and not one to eat two of in a row. Caramel outstays a plain filling by some margin.
Getting It Right in the Cup
- Serve cool: the coating holds the whole assembly together and caramel goes slack when warm. Ten minutes somewhere cool, twenty in the fridge in summer.
- Do not overchill: straight from a cold fridge the caramel goes hard rather than chewy, and the texture that makes this version worth buying disappears.
- Store sealed: cool, dry, flat and out of direct sun.
- Yield: nine bars.
- Best with: mid-afternoon, one at a time, and a brew strong enough to keep up.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Arnott's Tim Tam 9 x Chewy Caramel Chocolatey Biscuit Bars, 175g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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The taste profile
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The Afternoon Pairing
Why We Would Not Slam This One
Made with this tea
The Afternoon Pairing
How to make The Afternoon Pairing with Arnott's Tim Tam Chewy Caramel.
- 1 Tim Tam Chewy Caramel, kept cool
- 1 bag assam or strong everyday black tea
- 200ml water just off the boil
- A splash of milk
- Add a splash of milk and leave the sugar out entirely.
- Take the bar from a cool cupboard rather than a cold fridge, so the caramel is chewy rather than hard.
- Eat it in two bites and drink after, not during.
What you'll end up with: The everyday version and the one this bar is best at. A black Americano does the same job slightly better if you have coffee to hand.
Frozen Caramel Tim Tams
How to make Frozen Caramel Tim Tams with Arnott's Tim Tam Chewy Caramel.
- The whole 175g pack
- An airtight box
- Hot black coffee to serve
- Transfer the bars into an airtight box in a single flat layer so the coating does not take on freezer smells.
- Freeze for about ninety minutes, and no longer than a couple of hours.
- Stand them for five minutes before eating. Straight from the freezer the caramel is hard rather than chewy, and five minutes brings it back.
- Serve with a hot black coffee, which is the whole pleasure of this one.
What you'll end up with: Firm coating, cold caramel and a hot drink beside it. The five-minute stand is the difference between chewy and solid.
Warm Caramel Sauce Over Ice Cream
How to make Warm Caramel Sauce Over Ice Cream with Arnott's Tim Tam Chewy Caramel.
- 2 Tim Tam Chewy Caramel bars
- 3 tablespoons double cream
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- Flaked salt
- Chop the bars small and warm them with the cream in a pan over the lowest heat you can manage.
- Stir gently until it comes together. Do not let it boil; a sugar layer seizes and goes grainy if you push it.
- Pour warm over cold ice cream so the sauce sets slightly on contact.
- Finish with flaked salt, which is what stops it being one long note of sweet.
What you'll end up with: A quick sauce with biscuit pieces still in it. Low heat and patience are the whole technique; caramel punishes a rush.
No-Bake Caramel Slice
How to make No-Bake Caramel Slice with Arnott's Tim Tam Chewy Caramel.
- 6 Tim Tam Chewy Caramel bars, chopped
- 100g butter
- 200g dark chocolate
- Flaked salt
- A 20cm tin, lined
- Chop the bars into rough pieces. The caramel is denser than a plain filling, so the pieces hold their shape in the set slice rather than disappearing into it.
- Melt the butter and dark chocolate together over a low heat and take the pan off before it is entirely smooth.
- Fold the chopped bars through and press firmly into the lined tin.
- Scatter salt over and chill for two hours. Dark chocolate and salt are both there to keep the slice from being sugar on sugar.
What you'll end up with: A slice with visible caramel running through it. Cut it small: this is richer than any traybake made from a plain biscuit.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Chocolate coating | See current pack | The dominant element and the structural skin. It wraps every surface rather than one face, so chocolate leads every bite, and it holds the whole assembly together until heat gets to it. |
| Chewy caramel layer | See current pack | What separates this version from the original. A sugar structure rather than a fat one, so it stretches and clings instead of melting and flowing, and it carries the flavour on long after the chocolate has cleared. |
| Filling and biscuit layers | See current pack | The rest of the Tim Tam build: a soft filling between two conventional wheat biscuit layers, which give texture and hold their shape under pressure. |
| Format | 9 bars, 175g net | About 19.4g a bar, worked out from the count in the product name. |
Pack: Arnott's Tim Tam 9 x Chewy Caramel Chocolatey Biscuit Bars, 175g; nine fully coated chocolate sandwich bars with a chewy caramel layer. Store cool, dry, sealed and out of direct sunlight, and keep the tray flat. Read the ingredient list, the full allergen advice, the nutrition panel, any certification marks and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown.
The Tim Tam is a layered construction rather than a single bake: biscuit layers, a filling, and here a chewy caramel layer as well, with chocolate over the whole assembly. The caramel is what makes this version eat differently from the original, because a sugar layer behaves nothing like a fat-based filling under warmth.
What's in Arnott's Tim Tam 9 x Chewy Caramel Chocolatey Biscuit Bars, 175g, and what isn't:
- In: nine chocolate-coated sandwich bars with a chewy caramel layer, 175g in the pack.
- Heavier per bar than the original: about 19.4g against roughly 18g, worked out from the two stated pack weights and counts.
- Not the one to slam: our own assessment, on the grounds that caramel stretches where a soft filling flows. Use the original for that.
- Packaging: follow the current UK pack and your local-authority guidance; the outer pack and any inner tray or film can take different disposal routes.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Arnott's Tim Tam 9 x Chewy Caramel Chocolatey Biscuit Bars, 175g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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