# Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies, 216g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £2.00 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/britannia-good-day-cashew-cookies-216g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/britannia-good-day-cashew-cookies-216g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Britannia **Price:** £2.00 GBP **GTIN:** 6291007907872 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies is the nut version of the Good Day butter cookie, cashew worked through a short sweet dough at the same 216g weight as the plain one, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the better of the two beside a strong milky chai.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk, soya and nuts (cashews). Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Cashew is the mildest and oiliest of the common nuts, so it deepens the butter rather than fighting it, and the oil holds the sweetness down and stretches the finish. Still short enough to collapse rather than snap: three seconds in the tea.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 notes and dunking guidance are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies is the nut version of the Good Day butter cookie, at the same 216g weight as the plain one. The first thing to say is the plain thing: it contains nuts, it says so on the front, and if you are serving other people that is a question to ask before the plate goes down rather than after. The second thing is that the nut earns its place. Cashew is the mildest and oiliest of the common nuts, and both of those properties matter here. Mild means it does not fight the butter the way an almond or a hazelnut would, so you get one flavour with depth rather than two competing. Oily means it changes the texture and the finish, not just the taste. The Taste Profile Cashew: ●●●●○ (4/5) Worked through the dough rather than sitting on top, and mild enough that it never turns sharp or bitter. Butter: ●●●●○ (4/5) Still the base of the biscuit, arriving at the same moment as the nut rather than before it. Savoury edge: ●●●○○ (3/5) The nut oil gives the cookie a weight that holds the sweetness down without ever reading as salty. Finish: ●●●●○ (4/5) Noticeably longer than the plain version, because nut oil lingers where sugar simply clears. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.4 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind The Pack Nut cookies are a much bigger part of the Indian biscuit aisle than they are of the British one, and the reason is the drink they are built around. Chai is strong, milky, sweet and usually spiced, and a plain sweet biscuit next to it can disappear entirely. A nut cookie has something the chai cannot cancel out: oil and a faintly savoury depth that sit underneath the spice rather than competing with it. That is why this format sells in the volumes it does, and it is why the cashew version is arguably the better buy of the two Good Day cookies for anyone who drinks their tea strong. The texture is the part people notice second. Nut oil in a dough makes an already short crumb slightly heavier, and the visible pieces interrupt the bite, so where the plain version collapses evenly this one is briefly uneven wherever a fragment turns up. That unevenness is most of the pleasure and it is also why two of these register more than three of the plain ones do. What we will not tell you is how many cookies are in the pack, because that figure is not published at product level, and we would rather state nothing than estimate. The one thing we will state without hedging is the presence of nuts, because the product name settles it. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Our Commitment To The Planet The pack that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market. Nut oil turns rancid faster than plain butter does once it meets air and warmth, so a pack you will finish inside a fortnight is the size that stays worth eating. This is the one biscuit in this part of the range where storage is a flavour question and not only a texture one. How Does Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies, 216g Compare to: Britannia Good Day Butter Cookies, 216g: the plain sibling, same weight. Quieter, cleaner, and noticeably shorter in the finish because there is no oil to linger. The straightforward rule is that the plain one is the better biscuit for a delicate cup and for a household that would rather not have nuts in the cupboard, and this one is the better biscuit for a strong milky chai. Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies, 200g: the British default. Crisp rather than short, so it snaps where this collapses, and chocolate does the interrupting instead of nuts. Sweeter overall, with no savoury weight anywhere in it, and a much safer thing to hand round without asking a question first. Royal Dansk Danish Butter Cookies, 340g: the tinned Danish assortment, richer and firmer with a coarse sugar finish, and sold as a tin you put out rather than a pack you work through. A better biscuit taken on its own and a worse one taken with a strong cup, because it insists on being noticed. Ideal Brewing Conditions Brew strong. The nut oil gives this cookie enough weight to stand against a properly heavy cup, which is precisely what the plain version cannot do as well, and a weak or delicate tea leaves it sitting there with nothing to push against. The Chai Mug Brew: Strong and milky. Loose leaf simmered with milk, sugar and spice, or a heavy Assam at a full boil for four minutes. Why it works: Nut oil and spice sit together rather than competing, which is more than can be said for spice and plain sugar. Dunk: Three seconds. The crumb is short and lets go suddenly, exactly as the plain version does. Count: Two. The longer finish means the third one is usually unnecessary. The Coffee Plate Serve: A plain black coffee. Roast meets roast, and the nut oil stops the coffee flattening the biscuit as it flattens a plain one. Cardamom: Cardamom coffee and a cashew cookie is a genuinely good combination and the best use of this pack. Avoid: Espresso. Short and dark is still too much for a cookie this size, nut or no nut. Ask first: If the plate is going out to other people, say what is in it. That is the whole of our advice on the subject. Brewing Notes For Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies, 216g Water temperature: Full boil. There is no reason to be careful with the water here. Measure: One bag per 200ml, or a proper chai on the hob. Two cookies per person. Steep: Four minutes for Assam, longer for chai. Strong suits this better than it suits the plain version. Service: Milk yes, sugar optional and probably unnecessary. Dunk: Three seconds. The short crumb sets the limit, not the nuts. Iced version: Skip it. A cold cup leaves a nut cookie tasting oily rather than rounded. Best with: Masala chai, strong Assam, plain black coffee, or cardamom coffee. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk, soya and nuts (cashews). Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Allergen Warning: This product contains nuts. The product name states cashew, so we say so plainly rather than pointing you at a hedge. Storage: Reseal the pack the moment you open it and keep it cool and dry. Nut oil turns rancid faster than plain butter once it meets air and warmth, so this pack is worth finishing sooner than the plain one. Child Safety: Keep the kettle and the hot mug out of reach of children while you brew, and check before handing a nut cookie to a child who is not yours. ## Product Questions How is it different from the plain butter cookie?Same weight, longer finish. Cashew brings oil as well as flavour, and nut oil lingers on the palate where sugar simply clears. The plain one is cleaner and quieter; this one is rounder and more substantial. Why cashew rather than almond or hazelnut?Because cashew is the mildest and oiliest of the common nuts. It deepens the butter instead of fighting it, so you get one flavour with depth rather than two competing, which is what an almond in the same dough would give you. How long can I dunk it?About three seconds, the same as the plain version. The short crumb sets the limit rather than the nuts, and it lets go suddenly rather than sagging first. What should I drink with it?Something strong and milky. Masala chai first, a heavy Assam second. Nut oil and spice sit together rather than competing, which is more than can be said for spice and plain sugar. Is it good with coffee?Better than the plain version. Roast meets roast, and the nut oil stops the coffee flattening the biscuit. Cardamom coffee with a cashew cookie is the best use of this pack. Skip the espresso, which is still too short and dark. How many cookies are in the pack?The number is printed on the current UK pack. Does it keep as well as the plain one?No, and this is worth knowing. Nut oil turns rancid faster than plain butter once it meets air and warmth. Reseal the pack immediately and finish it sooner than you would the plain version. Is it savoury?Not savoury, but it has a savoury edge. The nut oil gives the cookie a weight that holds the sweetness down without ever reading as salty, which is why two of these register more than three plain ones do. Can I put them out for guests?Yes, but say what is in them before the plate goes down rather than after. That is the whole of our advice on the subject, and it applies to children who are not yours in particular. Can I bake with them?They crush to a slightly coarser crumb than the plain version because of the nut pieces, which suits a rustic base or a crumble more than a smooth pressed cheesecake base. Use a little less butter; the nut oil already contributes. Does it work with a delicate tea?Less well than you might hope. A light green or a first-flush Darjeeling gets overwhelmed by the nut oil, which is a reversal of the plain version where the biscuit is the one that disappears. ## Ingredients & Nutrition Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk, soya and nuts (cashews). Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy484 kcalFat24gof which saturates21gCarbohydrate60gof which sugars21gProtein7gSalt0.5gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsCashewthrough the doughThe mildest and oiliest of the common nuts, so it deepens the butter rather than competing with it. Visible pieces interrupt the crumb, which is what makes the bite briefly uneven.Baked butter cookiethe bodyStill the base of the biscuit, and it arrives at the same moment as the nut rather than before it. The crumb is short and collapses quickly.Nut oilcarried by the cashewGives the cookie a faintly savoury weight that holds the sweetness down, and stretches the finish several seconds past where the plain version stops.Pack weight216g The piece count is not published at product level and we state none.Pack: Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies, 216g; a single sealed pack of short cashew cookies. Contains nuts. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best resealed at once, since nut oil turns faster than plain butter.The presence of cashew is taken from the product name itself.Sourcing & blend. Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies, 216g comes from Britannia, one of India's best known biscuit makers, and nut cookies occupy a far larger share of the Indian biscuit aisle than they do of the British one. The reason is the drink they are built around. Chai is strong, milky, sweet and usually spiced, and a plain sweet biscuit beside it can vanish entirely. A nut cookie has something chai cannot cancel: oil and a faintly savoury depth that sit underneath the spice rather than competing with it. Nut oil in a dough also makes an already short crumb slightly heavier, and the visible pieces interrupt the bite, so where the plain version collapses evenly this one is briefly uneven wherever a fragment turns up. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe.What is in Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies, 216g, and what is not:In: short baked butter cookies with cashew worked through the dough, in a single sealed 216g pack.No coating and no filling: nothing is sandwiched or enrobed, so the nut and the butter are the whole of the flavour. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies, 216g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the biscuit tastes the way it does from opening the pack to the long finish it leaves behind.The outer layer is aromatic and it is butter and roasted cashew together rather than one arriving before the other. That simultaneity is informative: a nut scattered on top or pressed into the surface announces itself first, because it is exposed to the heat and browns hardest, while a nut worked through the dough comes up alongside the butter instead. What you smell here is the second case. There is no toasted or caramel register of the kind a darker bake produces, which tells you the same thing the plain version tells you, that this was baked pale and quick rather than long and dark.The flavour spike arrives immediately, as it does in any short-crumbed biscuit, but it does not leave at the same speed and that is the whole difference between this cookie and its plain sibling. The crumb still collapses rather than being chewed, so the sweetness and the butter land at once. Then the nut pieces interrupt: the bite is briefly uneven wherever a fragment turns up, and cashew oil spreads across the palate in a way sugar cannot. That oil brings a faintly savoury weight, never salty, which holds the sweetness down and is the reason this reads as medium rather than light where the plain version reads as simply sweet.The base structure is the finish, and it is several seconds longer than the plain cookie manages. Fat and oil coat the palate and release slowly; sugar dissolves and clears. That single physical fact explains why two of these register as a proper thing eaten while three of the plain ones can disappear without being noticed, and it also explains why this version stands up to a strong milky chai where the plain one merely survives it. The trade-off is that the same oil overwhelms a delicate cup, so a light green tea or a first-flush Darjeeling is now the thing that loses, which is a reversal of the plain version entirely.Getting it right in the cup. Brew strong and milky. A proper chai simmered with milk, sugar and spice is the right cup, and a heavy Assam at a full boil for four minutes is the simple substitute. Spice and nut oil sit together rather than competing, which is more than can be said for spice and plain sugar, so the pairing is better than the plain version manages with the same drink. Dunk for about three seconds; the short crumb sets the limit rather than the nuts, and it lets go suddenly with no sag to warn you. Take two rather than three, because the longer finish means the third is usually unnecessary. With coffee, go plain and black rather than espresso, and if you take cardamom in it, this is the cookie for it.How water and temperature change it. A stronger, longer steep pulls more tannin, and tannin cuts nut oil as effectively as it cuts butter, so a heavy four-minute cup keeps the biscuit from reading as greasy on the second or third one. A short or cool steep leaves the oil sitting on the palate with nothing to clear it, which is the most common reason somebody finds a nut cookie cloying. Hard tap water mutes tannin slightly, so give it another thirty seconds in a hard-water area. Cold is the clear failure: an iced cup has neither warmth nor tannin enough, and a nut cookie beside one reads oily rather than rounded, which is a sharper version of the same problem the plain cookie has when it is served cold. ## Recipe Ideas Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies, 216g is short, mildly nutty and a little oilier than the plain version, which gives it a longer finish and more to push against in a strong cup. Five builds below cover the chai mug, the coffee plate, a cardamom pairing, a rustic base and how to serve them to other people. Recipes, born here first The Chai Mug How to make The Chai Mug with Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies. 8 min 1 serving Easy You'll need 2 cashew cookies 2 bags strong black tea 150ml whole milk Cardamom, ginger, sugar to taste Method Simmer the tea, milk and spices together for five minutes rather than steeping in the mug. Strain and let it settle a moment before dunking. Dunk three seconds. The crumb sets the limit, not the nuts. Stop at two. The nut oil stretches the finish and the third is rarely needed. The Coffee Plate How to make The Coffee Plate with Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies. 4 min 1 serving Easy You'll need 2 cashew cookies 1 mug plain black coffee Method Brew plain and black rather than espresso; short and dark is still too much for a cookie this size. Eat them dry alongside. Coffee is thinner than chai and takes a short crumb apart quickly. Notice that roast meets roast here, and the nut oil stops the coffee flattening the biscuit. What you'll end up with: A better coffee pairing than the plain version manages. Cardamom Coffee And Cashew How to make Cardamom Coffee And Cashew with Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies. 6 min 2 servings Easy You'll need 4 cashew cookies 2 mugs black coffee 2 cardamom pods, cracked Method Crack the pods into the grounds before brewing rather than dropping them in the cup. Brew as usual and serve black. Eat a cookie between mouthfuls. This is the best single use of the pack. What you'll end up with: A classic combination that rarely disappoints. A Rustic Base How to make A Rustic Base with Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies. 15 min + chill 8 slices Easy You'll need About half the pack, crushed 60g melted butter A 20cm tin Method Crush the cookies. Nut pieces keep the crumb coarser than the plain version goes. Use less butter than usual; the nut oil already contributes and too much makes the base greasy. Press firmly and chill an hour before filling. Tell anyone eating it that there are nuts in the base. What you'll end up with: A coarser, nuttier base than a plain cookie gives, and one that suits a sharp filling. Putting Them Out For Guests How to make Putting Them Out For Guests with Britannia Good Day Cashew Cookies. 2 min Any number Easy You'll need The pack A pot of strong tea Method Say what is in them before the plate goes down, not after. Every time, without exception. Keep a plain biscuit on a separate plate if anyone is unsure. Reseal the pack afterwards; nut oil turns faster than plain butter. What you'll end up with: A plate nobody has to ask about, which is the only way to serve a nut biscuit. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._