Fox's Biscuits Chocolatey Biscuit Selection, 355g
Buy this one if yours is the household that leaves the plain biscuits behind in every other selection. There is no compromise anywhere in the box: everything sits at the chocolate end, so the argument about who gets what never starts. Narrow it certainly is. One person at the table who does not want chocolate has nothing here at all, where a mixed box would at least have kept them going. Dairy runs through most of what is inside, and the panel on the pack is the only place the full picture is set out.
Fox's Biscuits Chocolatey Biscuit Selection, in brief.
Fox's Biscuits Chocolatey Biscuit Selection is the pudding-plate half of the Fox's assortment idea, 355g from a long-established Yorkshire biscuit house, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection for households where the chocolate biscuits are the only ones that get eaten.
Everything is aimed at one end, so there is no plain biscuit to reset the palate and no picking through to find the one you wanted. Almost everything that goes wrong here is a storage problem: warmth dulls the coating and can bloom it pale, and a fridge is worse than a cupboard because it is humid. Airtight, cool and dark, and do not dunk anything coated.
Fox's Biscuits Chocolatey Biscuit Selection is the other half of the Fox's assortment idea. Where the Classic box is built for a tea tray, this one is built for a pudding plate: the whole selection is pitched at the chocolate end, so nobody is left picking through plain biscuits to find the one they wanted. Three hundred and fifty-five grams, which makes it a larger box than the small Classic and a genuinely shareable one.
A chocolate selection is a different object from a plain one and it needs handling as such. Chocolate is a coating that softens at body temperature and changes with warmth long before the biscuit underneath goes anywhere, which means almost everything that can go wrong with this box is a storage problem rather than a biscuit problem.
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 Fox's
Fox's is a long-established Yorkshire biscuit house, and its assortment boxes are among the things it is best known for. The range splits its selections along a clear line: Classic for the tea tray, Chocolatey for the pudding plate, and a Favourites box that mixes the two ideas. Knowing which of the three you are buying matters more than the name suggests, because they are aimed at genuinely different occasions.
The current pack carries all of it, and in a chocolate assortment the allergen advice on that pack is worth reading properly.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Weight: three hundred and fifty-five grams, which is a sharing box rather than a cupboard box, and larger than the smaller Classic selection.
- Everything is aimed at one end: there is no plain biscuit here to reset the palate, which is what makes this a pudding-plate box rather than an all-afternoon one.
- Temperature is the thing to manage: chocolate softens, dulls and can bloom to a pale grey surface with warmth. That bloom is cosmetic rather than spoilage, but it looks wrong and it is entirely avoidable.
- What it is not: not a dunking box, and not a tin. Once it is open, keep it cool and airtight.
Ideal Serving Conditions
There are two rules for a chocolate selection and both are about heat. Serve it a little below room temperature if you can, and store it well away from anything warm. Everything else follows from those.
The Pudding Plate
- Cool, not cold: straight from a cool cupboard is right. Chocolate on a warm plate goes tacky within minutes and marks fingers.
- Lay them flat, single layer: stacked chocolate biscuits stick to each other, and separating them takes the coating off one of them.
- Serve last: the sweetness here is high enough that it flattens whatever follows. This is the end of a meal rather than the middle of one.
- Do not dunk: a coating softens in hot tea and slides off before the biscuit has given way, which is how chocolate ends up at the bottom of the mug.
The Storage Rules
- Airtight on day one: into a tin, not the opened pack. Chocolate picks up other smells from a cupboard faster than a plain biscuit does.
- Away from the hob and out of the sun: warmth dulls the surface and can bloom it pale. That is cosmetic rather than spoilage, but nobody wants to serve it.
- Not the fridge: fridges are humid and cold-shock also blooms chocolate. A cool dry cupboard beats a fridge every time.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: a plain strong black tea. A chocolate biscuit wants a cup that stays out of its way rather than a flavoured blend competing with it.
- Also good: black coffee, where the bitterness does the job milk would otherwise have to, and a rooibos in the evening when caffeine is not wanted.
- Avoid: fruit and flavoured teas. Two sweet things in one mouthful is one too many.
- Best with: after dinner, a shared plate, or an afternoon when the point is the chocolate rather than the biscuit.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Fox's Biscuits Chocolatey Biscuit Selection, 355g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Fox's
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
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The taste profile
How does it compare
This is a chocolate biscuit selection rather than a single biscuit, so the builds below are about serving and storing it well and about using what is left at the bottom of the box. The cards are the pudding plate, the tin, a chocolate biscuit base, a rocky-road tray, a quick chocolate mousse pot and a biscuit crumb for ice cream.
Made with this tea
The Pudding Plate
How to serve a chocolate selection so it does not overwhelm.
- Fox's Chocolatey Biscuit Selection
- A flat plate, cool
- Plain strong black tea or black coffee
- Take the biscuits straight from a cool cupboard rather than a warm room.
- Lay them flat in a single layer so they do not stick to one another.
- Put out fewer than you think. The sweetness flattens the palate after three or four.
- Serve at the end of a meal with a plain cup beside the plate, not under it.
What you'll end up with: A pudding plate people finish rather than one they give up on.
The Tin, On Day One
How to stop the chocolate blooming or picking up cupboard smells.
- Fox's Chocolatey Biscuit Selection
- An airtight tin
- Greaseproof paper between layers
- Decant the pack on the day you open it. Chocolate takes up other smells faster than a plain biscuit.
- Lay them flat with greaseproof paper between layers rather than stacking them.
- Store in a cool dry cupboard, away from the hob and out of direct sun. Not the fridge.
- Warmth and cold shock both bring fat to the surface as a pale bloom, which is cosmetic but looks wrong.
What you'll end up with: Chocolate still glossy and biscuits still snapping a fortnight later.
Chocolate Biscuit Base
How to build a rich base from the last of the box.
- 200g biscuits from the selection
- 70g melted butter
- A good pinch of salt
- Crush to a fine crumb, chocolate and all.
- Use less butter than you would with plain biscuits, because the coating brings fat of its own. Seventy grams rather than ninety.
- Add salt, press firmly into a lined tin and chill an hour before filling.
- A chocolate base suits a plain or citrus filling; against a chocolate filling it disappears.
What you'll end up with: A dark, firm base with more flavour than a plain one.
Rocky Road Tray
How to turn the end of the box into a tray bake.
- 250g mixed biscuits, broken not crushed
- 200g dark chocolate
- 80g butter and 2 tablespoons golden syrup
- A handful of mini marshmallows and dried cherries
- Melt the dark chocolate, butter and syrup over a low heat.
- Use dark chocolate rather than milk, because the biscuits are already sweet and the tray needs something to push back.
- Fold in the broken biscuits, marshmallows and cherries.
- Press into a lined tin, chill until set and cut into squares.
What you'll end up with: A dozen squares with proper texture in them.
Mousse Pots with a Biscuit Layer
How to make a quick pudding for four.
- 6 biscuits from the selection, crushed
- 300ml double cream
- 150g dark chocolate, melted and cooled
- A pinch of sea salt
- Whip the cream to soft peaks and fold in the cooled melted chocolate.
- Spoon a layer of crushed biscuit into the bottom of four glasses.
- Top with the mousse and chill for two hours.
- Finish with a pinch of salt, which stops the whole thing reading as one flat sweet note.
What you'll end up with: Four pudding pots with a crunch at the bottom.
Biscuit Crumb for Ice Cream
How to use the crumbs left in the tin.
- The crumbs from the bottom of the tin
- Vanilla ice cream
- Flaky salt
- Scatter the crumbs over scoops of plain vanilla ice cream.
- Add a few flakes of salt.
- Serve straight away, before the crumb softens in the cold.
- Plain ice cream rather than chocolate, so the biscuit is the thing you taste.
What you'll end up with: A pudding out of what would otherwise go in the bin.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 505 kcal |
| Fat | 25.3g |
| of which saturates | 14.4g |
| Carbohydrate | 62.1g |
| of which sugars | 42.9g |
| Fibre | 1.1g |
| Protein | 6.7g |
| Salt | 0.32g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this product: Milk Chocolate (44%) [Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Skimmed Milk, Cocoa Mass, Whey Powder (Milk), Butter Oil (Milk), Vegetable Fats (Palm, Shea, Sal, Mango Kernel), Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin], Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), White Chocolate (8%) [Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Skimmed Milk, Butter Oil (Milk), Dried Whole Milk, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin; Flavouring], Palm Oil, Sugar, Milk Chocolate (6%) [Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Mass, Whey Powder (Milk), Dried Skimmed Milk, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin], Dark Chocolate (6%) [Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Butter Oil (Milk), Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin; Flavouring], Glucose Syrup, Palm Kernel Oil, Raising Agents: Ammonium Carbonates, Sodium Carbonates, Disodium Diphosphates, Cocoa Powder, Salt, Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Dextrose, Dried Skimmed Milk, Cocoa Mass, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin, Flavourings, Milk Chocolate contains Cocoa Solids 25% minimum, Milk Solids 14% minimum, Dark Chocolate contains Cocoa Solids 49% minimum, White Chocolate contains Milk Solids 24% minimum.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Chocolate coatings and fillings | Printed on the current pack | The lead across the whole box rather than an accent on one or two items. A coating softens at body temperature and delivers its sweetness immediately, which is why this reads sweeter than a plain assortment. |
| Biscuit underneath | the contents are printed on the current pack | Present but working behind the coating: the bake is there to carry the chocolate rather than compete with it. What is in the box and how many of each is on the pack. |
| Allergens and nutrition | Printed on the current pack | Several recipes in one box, and chocolate lines commonly carry precautionary statements about nuts and milk. Read the pack itself, every time. |
Pack: Fox's Biscuits Chocolatey Biscuit Selection, 355g; an assorted chocolate biscuit selection, the pudding-plate half of the Fox's selection range. Store cool, dark and airtight, decant into a tin on the day you open it, and keep it away from the hob and out of direct sun. Read the contents, the biscuit count, the ingredient list, the allergen advice, the nutrition panel and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown. The sensory placements describe how a chocolate selection behaves as a format rather than how any one biscuit tastes, and they are our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description; we have held no tastings and hold no brand specification sheets.
Sourcing & blend. Fox's Biscuits Chocolatey Biscuit Selection, 355g is made by Fox's, a long-established Yorkshire biscuit house whose assortment boxes are among the things it is best known for. The range splits its selections along a clear line: Classic for the tea tray, Chocolatey for the pudding plate, and a Favourites box that mixes the two ideas. Which of the three you buy matters more than the names suggest, because they are aimed at genuinely different occasions.
What's in Fox's Biscuits Chocolatey Biscuit Selection, 355g, and what isn't:
- In: an assortment of chocolate biscuits in a 355g pack, the contents printed on the box.
- Allergen note: a chocolate assortment holds several recipes in one pack and commonly carries precautionary statements about nuts and milk. Read the latest box rather than relying on this page.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Fox's Biscuits Chocolatey Biscuit Selection, 355g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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