Fox's Chocolatey Biscuits Double Chocolate Rounds, 117g
Cocoa in the dough does something beyond flavour: it takes moisture out of the crumb, which is why a cool round breaks with a clean snap instead of crumbling, and why an opened pack goes tired faster than a plain biscuit would. Keep the sleeve shut. Nothing in it resets the mouth between bites, so a plainer biscuit put on the same plate afterwards tastes of very little. One at the end of a plain lunch, rather than a handful at four o'clock. Wheat in the biscuit, milk in the covering, with the rest of it on the pack.
Fox's Chocolatey Biscuits Double Chocolate Rounds, in brief.
Fox's Chocolatey Biscuits Double Chocolate Rounds, 117g is a round biscuit enclosed in chocolate where the biscuit underneath is a chocolate one as well, 117g in the pack.
The doubling is the product and also the thing to understand. In most coated biscuits the plain base is the brake; take it away and replace it with more chocolate and nothing is left to push back. Serve it cold, two at a time, with something sharp alongside. It does not dunk.
In most coated biscuits the biscuit is the brake. A plain or oaty base gives the coating something to be measured against, which is why a chocolate digestive reads less sweet than a solid chocolate bar of the same weight. Take the plain base away and replace it with more chocolate and there is nothing left to push back. This is a deliberate choice rather than a mistake, and for somebody who wants the most chocolate a biscuit can deliver it is exactly right. For anybody else there are better-balanced biscuits on the same shelf.
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. Serving temperature, dunking and what to put beside it are also covered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Fox's
Fox's is a Yorkshire biscuit house and one of the older names on the British biscuit shelf, with a range that runs from very plain to very rich. The Chocolatey range is the rich end of it, and the Double Chocolate Round is the most direct expression of the idea: a small enclosed disc with chocolate on the outside and chocolate in the biscuit, made to be eaten in one or two bites rather than lingered over.
What You Are Actually Buying
A 117g pack of small round biscuits, each enclosed in chocolate. That is a small pack, and deliberately so, because the ratio of chocolate to biscuit makes this richer than the weight suggests. Read the current UK pack.
Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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.
Ideal Serving Conditions
Temperature is the whole story with an enclosed biscuit. Cool, the coating is firm and the round breaks cleanly; warm, it softens, marks every hand that touches it and reads flatter and sweeter. Ten minutes somewhere cold on a warm afternoon is the single most useful thing you can do to this product. Beyond that, the important decision is what goes beside it, because nothing inside the biscuit is going to help.
The Plate Serve
- Serve it cold: A warm round has no snap and the snap is most of the structure. Ten minutes in a cold place transforms it.
- Two, not six: The chocolate ratio makes this richer than 117g suggests. A small plate is the right plate.
- Something sharp alongside: Raspberries, sharp apple or plain yoghurt. Unopposed sweetness needs help from outside the biscuit.
- Strong unsweetened tea: The only real brake available. Builders-strength, no sugar, and it should be poured before the plate goes out.
Why Double Chocolate Changes the Balance
- The brake is gone: In most coated biscuits the plain base gives the coating something to be measured against. Here the base is chocolate too.
- It reads as confectionery: Closer to a small chocolate than to a biscuit, which is a legitimate thing to want and worth knowing before buying.
- It cannot be dunked: Enclosed on every side, with no exposed crumb for tea to travel into. A dunk melts the outside and leaves chocolate on the drink.
- It rewards cold and acidity: Both of the useful interventions come from outside the biscuit: chill it, and put something sharp next to it.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Strong unsweetened black tea: The only real brake on the plate. It should be strong, because there is a great deal of sugar to cut.
- Espresso or a long black: Works for the same reason. Roast bitterness against an unopposed sweet coating.
- What to avoid: Hot chocolate, sweetened tea and milky sweetened coffee. All three add sugar to a product that has no brake of its own.
- Dunking: Do not. There is no exposed crumb to take tea and a dunk just leaves chocolate floating on the surface of your drink.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Fox's Chocolatey Biscuits Double Chocolate Rounds, 117g, 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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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
Fox’s Chocolatey Biscuits Double Chocolate Rounds, 117g is a small enclosed chocolate biscuit with nothing inside it braking the sugar, so every useful build brings the brake from outside. Five below cover the cold plate, an acidity plate, a sundae rubble, a fridge-cake set and how to keep the snap.
Made with this tea
The Cold Plate
How to make The Cold Plate with Fox's Double Chocolate Rounds.
- Half the pack
- Strong unsweetened black tea
- Fifteen minutes somewhere cold
- A cold plate
- Chill the pack for fifteen minutes. A warm round has no snap, and the snap is most of the structure.
- Brew the tea strong before the plate goes out. It is the only real brake available.
- Lay them on a cold plate rather than standing them in a bowl where every one gets held by a warm hand.
- Put out two each and reseal the rest.
What you’ll end up with: A clean break, chocolate that releases in order rather than all at once, and a plate that does not get sickly halfway through.
The Acidity Plate
How to make The Acidity Plate with Fox's Double Chocolate Rounds.
- Eight rounds
- Raspberries
- A sharp apple, sliced thin
- Plain unsweetened yoghurt
- Chill the rounds and the plate together.
- Arrange the fruit and a spoonful of plain yoghurt beside them rather than on them.
- Alternate biscuit and fruit rather than eating the biscuits in a row.
- Notice that the fourth round still tastes of something, which it will not do on its own.
What you’ll end up with: The simplest fix there is for an unopposed sweet biscuit, and it costs the price of a handful of raspberries.
Sundae Rubble
How to make Sundae Rubble with Fox's Double Chocolate Rounds.
- Four rounds
- Vanilla ice cream
- Sour cherries or raspberries
- A rolling pin
- Chill the rounds hard first. Cold chocolate shatters; warm chocolate smears.
- Crush them roughly so there are shards rather than powder.
- Scoop the ice cream and scatter the rubble over.
- Add sharp fruit, which is doing the same job here that it does on the plate.
What you’ll end up with: Shards of enclosed chocolate biscuit that stay crisp against cold ice cream for a minute or two, with acidity cutting through.
Fridge Cake Set
How to make Fridge Cake Set with Fox's Double Chocolate Rounds.
- The whole 117g pack
- Melted dark chocolate, not milk
- Dried sour cherries
- A lined tin and fridge space
- Break the rounds into halves and quarters rather than crushing them, so the shapes stay visible in the slice.
- Use dark chocolate to bind, not milk. The biscuits already supply all the sweetness this needs.
- Fold in dried sour cherries for acidity and press into a lined tin.
- Set in the fridge for two hours and cut cold.
What you’ll end up with: A fridge cake that is not sickly, because the only sugar added came from the biscuits and the dark chocolate pulls against it.
Keeping the Snap
How to make Keeping the Snap with Fox's Double Chocolate Rounds.
- The opened pack
- A cool dark cupboard
- Nothing strong smelling nearby
- Move the pack off the counter, which sits next to a kettle and a hob and is the warmest place in the kitchen.
- Reseal after every use and keep it away from coffee and spices, because exposed chocolate picks up smells fast.
- Chill before serving rather than storing in the fridge, which is humid.
- Ignore any pale bloom on the surface. It means the pack has been warm; it is harmless and purely cosmetic.
What you’ll end up with: Rounds that still break cleanly at the bottom of the pack, rather than three good ones and the rest soft.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
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Pack: Fox's Chocolatey Biscuits Double Chocolate Rounds, 117g; round chocolate biscuits enclosed in chocolate. Store cool, dry, dark and sealed, away from anything strong smelling, because exposed chocolate takes on kitchen odours. Read the net weight, the biscuit count, the ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown. Gluten is stated because a biscuit round is a wheat product; nothing else is inferred.
Sourcing & blend. Fox’s Chocolatey Biscuits Double Chocolate Rounds, 117g is made under the Fox’s name, a Yorkshire biscuit house whose range runs from very plain to very rich. The Chocolatey range is the rich end of it, and the Double Chocolate Round is the most direct expression of the idea. What matters about the construction is the doubling: coating the biscuit completely is one decision, and making the biscuit underneath a chocolate one is a second, and together they remove the plain base that normally holds a coated biscuit in balance. The same house makes the Viennese, which does exactly the opposite, and having both on one shelf is genuinely useful.
What’s in Fox's Chocolatey Biscuits Double Chocolate Rounds, 117g, and what isn’t:
- In: round chocolate wheat biscuits enclosed in chocolate on every side, in a 117g pack.
- Contains gluten: a biscuit round is a wheat product and this is not suitable for a coeliac diet.
- No health claim: this is a chocolate confection in biscuit form, the sweetness is very high, and we claim no benefit of any kind for it.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Fox's Chocolatey Biscuits Double Chocolate Rounds, 117g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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