Blue Riband Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Wafer Biscuit Bar Multipack, 6 Pack 108g
The hazelnut changes who can eat it, which is a larger decision than what it tastes like. A nut is named on the front of this pack, so it is the wrong six-pack for a school with a nut policy or a lunchbox that gets shared around, and it carries milk and wheat as well. All of that is printed, and worth reading before the box goes into a bag. Where nuts are not an issue in the house, this is the better of the two. Wafer layers contribute structure and almost nothing else, so whatever is added has to do all the work, and roasted hazelnut brings an oily, faintly bitter edge that milk chocolate has nowhere in it. That is enough to hold the finish a moment longer than the plain version manages, and enough to let it sit beside a black coffee instead of needing a sweet tea.
Blue Riband Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Wafer Biscuit Bar Multipack, in brief.
Blue Riband Milk Chocolate Hazelnut is the flavoured build of the wafer biscuit bar, six separately packed bars in a one hundred and eight gram multipack, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the bar with something savoury in it.
Eighteen grams a bar. Milk chocolate and hazelnut are both named on the pack, so this bar contains milk and names a nut: read the allergen panel before it goes into a shared lunchbox. The roasted note is the only thing pushing back against the sugar, and it is why this version suits a black coffee.
The first is that this bar contains milk, because milk chocolate does. The second is that it names a nut. Anybody buying biscuits for a school bag, a shared office tin or a household with a nut allergy should treat that as the headline rather than a footnote, and read the allergen panel on the current pack properly before the pack goes anywhere near a lunchbox. Everything else about the product, the layers, the portion and the way it behaves beside a cup, follows the same logic as the plain bar.
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. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Blue Riband
The Blue Riband is a long-standing British wafer bar, and it is a lunchbox product before it is a biscuit-tin one. The hazelnut version is a line extension of exactly the kind that keeps an established bar visible: same bar weight, same count, same shelf position, with two named additions doing the work of making it a different purchase.
Milk chocolate and hazelnut is one of the oldest pairings in confectionery and it works for a straightforward reason. Hazelnut carries a roasted, slightly bitter, oily note that milk chocolate does not have anywhere in it, so the two together give a bar something a plain sweet build lacks. In a wafer product that matters more than usual, because wafer contributes almost nothing of its own and whatever is added has to carry the whole thing.
What we do have is the product name, which names milk chocolate and hazelnut, and we treat that as reliable because it is the manufacturer's own description.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Count and weight: six bars, one hundred and eight grams in the pack, so eighteen grams each.
- It names a nut: hazelnut is in the product name, so this pack is not suitable for anyone avoiding nuts, and it is worth thinking about before it goes into a shared lunchbox or an office tin.
- It contains milk: milk chocolate contains milk, so this is not a vegan or dairy-free bar. That much follows from the name; the rest of the allergen picture is on the pack.
- Separately packed: which is what multipack means. The outer can be opened without the remaining bars going stale, and one bar travels intact.
- Contains gluten: it is a wheat wafer and is not suitable for a coeliac diet.
- What it is not: not a subtle bar, not a sharing biscuit and not a dunker. It is a sealed eighteen-gram portion with two named flavours doing the work.
Ideal Serving Conditions
Milk chocolate makes this bar more temperature-sensitive than the plain version, not less. Chocolate softens well below the temperature at which a wafer does, so a warm pack gives you a bar that bends, marks the wrapper and takes on a pale bloom on the surface once it re-sets. Everything below follows from keeping it cool.
The Lunchbox Serve
- Check the allergen position first: this bar names a nut. In a shared lunchbox, a school with a nut policy or an office tin, that is the first question rather than the last.
- Keep it out of the sun: milk chocolate softens at a lower temperature than wafer does, so this version suffers in a warm bag faster than the plain one.
- One is a portion: eighteen grams, sealed, and the format is asking you to stop there.
- Open it fully: a half-opened chocolate-covered bar in a warm room is how chocolate ends up on your fingers.
The Tea-Break Serve
- Alongside, not in: a wafer bar takes on liquid all at once and collapses. Eat it beside the cup.
- Black and unsweetened: the roasted note from the hazelnut helps, but it is not enough on its own. Strong tea or black coffee supplies the rest.
- Cool it first: a bar from a cool cupboard snaps properly and releases the chocolate progressively rather than all at once.
- Avoid hot chocolate: milk chocolate against a chocolate drink is the one pairing to leave alone here, because there is nothing left to balance anything.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: black coffee first, strong unsweetened tea second. The roasted hazelnut note sits particularly well against coffee.
- Avoid: hot chocolate and sweetened lattes, which double the sugar and cancel the only savoury note the bar has.
- Dunking: no. A wafer has no crumb to wick liquid evenly, and a chocolate coating traps the wafer between a warm outside and a wet inside.
- Storage: cool, dry and sealed. Chocolate that has warmed and re-set shows a pale bloom on the surface, which is harmless and permanent.
- Best with: a lunchbox where nuts are not an issue, a work drawer, a long drive, or a black coffee at the end of a meal.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Blue Riband Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Wafer Biscuit Bar Multipack, 6 Pack 108g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Blue Riband
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
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Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
Blue Riband Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Wafer Biscuit Bar Multipack, 6 Pack 108g brings a roasted nut note as well as chocolate, which makes it the more useful of the two Blue Ribands to cook with. Five builds below cover the black coffee break, a lunchbox pairing, crushed over ice cream, hazelnut fridge squares and a warm pudding.
Made with this tea
The Black Coffee Break
How to make The Black Coffee Break with Blue Riband Hazelnut.
- 1 bar Blue Riband Hazelnut
- 1 black coffee or espresso, unsweetened
- A glass of cold water
- Brew the coffee black and leave it unsweetened. The roasted note in the cup and the roasted note in the bar pull in the same direction.
- Take the bar from a cool cupboard. A cool bar snaps and releases the chocolate progressively rather than all at once.
- Eat it alongside, in two or three pieces rather than one. Never in the cup.
- Finish with cold water to clear the sweetness.
What you'll end up with: The pairing this version was made for, and the clearest reason to pick it over the plain Original.
The Lunchbox Pairing
How to make The Lunchbox Pairing with Blue Riband Hazelnut.
- 1 bar, left sealed
- 1 apple
- A piece of hard cheese
- Check the allergen position first. This bar names a nut, so it does not belong in a shared box or a school with a nut policy.
- Pack the bar sealed and keep the box out of the sun, because chocolate softens well before wafer does.
- Add something sharp and something savoury, so the bar is not the only thing carrying the box.
- Eat it last, as the sweet end rather than the middle.
What you'll end up with: A lunchbox that works, provided the allergen question has been settled before the pack was bought.
Crushed Over Ice Cream
How to make Crushed Over Ice Cream with Blue Riband Hazelnut.
- 2 bars, crushed
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- A pinch of sea salt
- Crush two bars coarsely in the wrapper, which keeps the mess contained and gives you pieces rather than dust.
- Scatter over the ice cream and add the smallest pinch of sea salt, which lifts the roasted nut note considerably.
- Eat immediately, while the wafer is still crisp.
What you'll end up with: Salt against roasted hazelnut, which is a bigger improvement than a pinch of anything has a right to be.
Hazelnut Fridge Squares
How to make Hazelnut Fridge Squares with Blue Riband Hazelnut.
- 4 bars, broken into chunks
- 100g butter
- 3 tablespoons golden syrup
- 300g dark chocolate
- 50g toasted hazelnuts, roughly chopped
- Break the bars into large chunks so the layers stay visible in the cut face.
- Melt the butter, syrup and dark chocolate together over a low heat. Dark rather than milk, because the bars have supplied the milk chocolate already.
- Fold in the chunks and the toasted hazelnuts with two passes and no more, or the wafer breaks down.
- Press into a lined tin, chill for three hours and cut into twelve.
What you'll end up with: The nut note doubled, and dark chocolate doing the balancing the bar cannot do on its own.
Warm Chocolate Hazelnut Pudding Pots
How to make Warm Chocolate Hazelnut Pudding Pots with Blue Riband Hazelnut.
- 2 bars, broken
- 200ml hot milk
- 50g dark chocolate
- Whipped cream to finish
- Melt the dark chocolate into the hot milk and stir until smooth.
- Drop the broken bars into two small pots and pour the hot chocolate milk over them.
- Leave for two minutes so the wafer softens through and the hazelnut note lifts into the milk.
- Finish with whipped cream and eat warm, with a spoon rather than a straw.
What you'll end up with: The one place a collapsing wafer is an advantage rather than a failure, which is worth knowing.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 539 kcal |
| Fat | 30.6g |
| of which saturates | 16.1g |
| Carbohydrate | 60g |
| of which sugars | 46.7g |
| Protein | 5g |
| Salt | 0.2g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and nuts (hazelnuts), and it may contain peanuts and soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: sugar, wheat flour, vegetable fats (palm, shea), Cocoa butter, whey powder product (milk), whole milk powder, cocoa mass, Hazelnuts (1%), fat-reduced cocoa powder, skimmed milk powder, emulsifier (lecithins), raising agent (sodium bicarbonate), salt, flavourings.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Format | 6 bars, 108g in the pack (18g a bar) | Sold as a multipack, so the units are packed separately. |
Pack: Blue Riband Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Wafer Biscuit Bar Multipack, 6 Pack 108g; six separately packed milk chocolate and hazelnut wafer biscuit bars at eighteen grams each. Contains milk and names a nut. Store cool, dry and sealed, away from direct heat and sunlight. Read the net weight, the ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown, taken from the manufacturer's own product name.
Sourcing & blend. Blue Riband Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Wafer Biscuit Bar Multipack, 6 Pack 108g is the flavoured build of a long-standing British wafer bar, sold alongside the plain Original at the same weight and count. Milk chocolate and hazelnut is one of the oldest pairings in confectionery, and it works because hazelnut carries a roasted, slightly bitter, oily note that milk chocolate has nowhere in it. In a wafer product that matters more than usual, because the wafer contributes almost nothing of its own.
What's in Blue Riband Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Wafer Biscuit Bar Multipack, 6 Pack 108g, and what isn't:
- In: six separately packed wafer biscuit bars at eighteen grams each, with milk chocolate and hazelnut both named on the pack.
- Contains milk: milk chocolate contains milk. This is not a vegan or dairy-free product.
- Contains gluten: it is a wheat wafer and is not suitable for a coeliac diet.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Blue Riband Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Wafer Biscuit Bar Multipack, 6 Pack 108g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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