LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Flavoured Soft Bakes, 5 Pack 140g
People expecting lemon to be sharp find it sweet, because sugar and a moist crumb both round citrus off, and there is no acid anywhere else in the recipe to hold the line. Judged as a sweet bake carrying a lemon note, rather than as a lemon bake, it does the job, and the tenderness of the crumb is what reviewers keep coming back to. There is a real gap it fills: mid-morning, when chocolate is too heavy and nothing else on the shelf tastes of fruit at all. Five wraps, so it portions itself. Wheat, milk and egg are the likely panel entries, and a soft bake of this kind is not a gluten-free option.
LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Flavoured Soft Bakes, in brief.
LU Le Petit Citron is a five-pack of lemon flavoured soft bakes, 140g to the pack, from the French biscuit house LU, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the soft, portioned, citrus-led alternative to a crisp lemon biscuit.
A soft bake holds its moisture rather than being dried until it snaps, so it does not dunk and it stales by drying out instead of going soft.
That single decision governs everything else about this pack. It is why the five bakes are portioned and sealed rather than stacked loose in a tube, why the lemon reads bright rather than baked-out, and why this is a lunchbox and handbag product rather than a biscuit-barrel one. It also sets the fair comparison: not against a shortbread or a digestive, but against the other soft, sweet, single-portion things people carry around with them.
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, tea pairings and the case against dunking are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind LU
LU is one of the long-standing names of French biscuit baking, and Le Petit is the range it uses for small, single-portion formats. That is brand heritage rather than a claim about where this particular pack was made or what is in it. So we describe the format and the flavour direction, and we leave the label to speak for itself on everything else.
What the name does tell us is the category. Citron is lemon, soft bakes is the format, and five is the count.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Weight: 140g net across five bakes, which is 28g apiece. That division is worked out from the stated pack weight and count rather than printed on the pack.
- The format, not the filling: the pack name says lemon flavoured soft bakes and nothing more. Whether the lemon is through the crumb, in a centre or both is printed on the pack, and we do not guess at it.
- Portioned: five to the pack. How they are wrapped inside is on the label. It matters more here than it would for a dry biscuit, because a soft bake is only soft while its moisture stays where the baker left it.
- What it is not: not a dunker, not a crisp biscuit and not a shortbread. Treating it as one of those will only disappoint you.
Ideal Serving Conditions
A soft bake is a warm-drink partner rather than a hot-drink tool. There is nothing here to dunk, and the sensible question is which cup lets the lemon read clearly rather than which cup will soften it.
The Tea Break
- Earl Grey first: bergamot is a citrus oil and lemon is a citrus oil, so the two run in the same direction and the cup extends the bake rather than arguing with it.
- Or a plain green tea: light, clean and slightly grassy, which gives the sweetness somewhere to land without adding more sugar to the equation.
- Avoid a heavy assam: malt against lemon is a clash rather than a contrast, and the bake is too light to hold its own against a big breakfast blend.
- No sugar in the cup: the bake has brought plenty. A splash of milk is fine with a breakfast blend, less so with Earl Grey.
The Coffee Break
- Black filter coffee: the cleanest pairing, because the bitterness sits underneath the lemon instead of on top of it.
- A light or medium roast: a dark roast brings burnt notes that flatten citrus. If a dark roast is all you have, drink it after rather than alongside.
- Milky coffee is optional: it works, but it turns a bright pairing into a soft one. Pick it if you want comfort rather than lift.
- Iced coffee in warm weather: unexpectedly good, since cold coffee and lemon share more of their aromatic vocabulary than hot coffee and lemon do.
Getting It Right
- Room temperature, always: cold firms the crumb and suppresses the citrus aroma, which is most of what you are paying for here.
- Do not dunk: there is no structure to hold a hot liquid. It will not go soggy in the way a biscuit does; it will simply fall apart.
- Seal what you open: a soft bake stales by drying out, which is the opposite of how a crisp biscuit stales. Air is the enemy in both cases, for opposite reasons.
- Warm it slightly: ten seconds in a low oven or on a warm plate lifts the lemon noticeably. A microwave makes it steamy rather than fragrant.
- Best with: a mug of Earl Grey, mid-afternoon, or packed into a lunchbox where its wrapping earns its keep.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Flavoured Soft Bakes, 5 Pack 140g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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The taste profile
How does it compare
LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Flavoured Soft Bakes, 5 Pack 140g is five portioned soft bakes rather than a tube of biscuits, so every build below treats them as a soft, moist, single-portion item rather than something to dunk. Five ideas cover the Earl Grey pairing this bake was made for, a ten-second warm-up that doubles the aroma, a trifle layer, the lunchbox case and a five-minute pudding.
Made with this tea
The Earl Grey Afternoon
How to make The Earl Grey Afternoon with LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Soft Bakes.
- 2 LU Le Petit Citron soft bakes, at room temperature
- 1 bag Earl Grey
- 200ml water just off the boil
- A thin slice of lemon, optional
- Brew the Earl Grey for three minutes, no longer. Bergamot turns soapy if it is pushed, and you want it bright rather than heavy.
- Drink it without milk. Milk rounds off exactly the citrus edge that makes this pairing work.
- Serve the bakes at room temperature. Cold firms the crumb and buries the lemon aroma.
- Skip the dunking. There is no structure here to survive it, and the flavour reads better dry.
What you'll end up with: The pairing this bake was built for. Bergamot and lemon are both citrus oils, so the cup extends the bake instead of arguing with it.
The Ten Second Warm Up
How to make The Ten Second Warm Up with LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Soft Bakes.
- 1 LU Le Petit Citron soft bake
- A low oven or a warm plate
- A black filter coffee
- Warm the bake for ten seconds on a plate straight out of a warm oven, or thirty seconds in an oven turned right down.
- Avoid the microwave, which makes it steamy rather than fragrant and softens the outside unpleasantly.
- Smell it before you eat it. Warmth pushes the volatile citrus compounds into the air, which is the whole trick.
- Eat it straight away, because the lift fades within a minute or two.
What you'll end up with: The same bake with twice the aroma, for the cost of ten seconds and no ingredients at all.
Lemon Bake Trifle Layer
How to make Lemon Bake Trifle Layer with LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Soft Bakes.
- 3 LU Le Petit Citron soft bakes, torn
- 300ml whipped cream or custard
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 200g raspberries or strawberries
- Tear the bakes into rough pieces and press a layer into the bottom of four glasses. Torn beats cut here, because ragged edges take up more of the cream.
- Spoon over the fruit, then the cream or custard, then a second layer of torn bake.
- Zest a lemon over the top and chill for at least an hour so the bake takes up some of the moisture.
- Serve cold, which is the one occasion cold suits this bake, because the cream is carrying the aroma now.
What you'll end up with: A soft bake makes a better trifle layer than a crisp biscuit does, because it takes up cream without turning to paste.
The Lunchbox Standard
How to make The Lunchbox Standard with LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Soft Bakes.
- 1 LU Le Petit Citron soft bake, wrapping intact
- An apple or a satsuma
- A drink of your choice
- Leave the inner wrapping alone until it is wanted. That wrapping is the only thing keeping the bake soft.
- Pack it flat rather than upright, so nothing presses a corner into the crumb.
- Pair it with something sharp rather than something sweet. A satsuma alongside doubles the citrus without doubling the sugar.
- Resist the fridge. A cold bake is a firm bake and the aroma goes with the temperature.
What you'll end up with: The reason this format exists. No crumb shower, no snap, no mess in the bottom of the bag.
Warm Bake and Ice Cream
How to make Warm Bake and Ice Cream with LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Soft Bakes.
- 2 LU Le Petit Citron soft bakes
- 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
- 1 teaspoon honey, optional
- Lemon zest
- Warm the bakes briefly in a low oven until they are just warm through rather than hot.
- Set a scoop of vanilla ice cream against each one rather than on top, so the bake stays warm on one side.
- Add a little lemon zest over the ice cream. The pairing is warm and cold, sweet and sharp, at the same moment.
- Skip the honey unless the bake tastes tired, in which case it helps.
What you'll end up with: A five-minute pudding out of a lunchbox item, and better than it has any right to be.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 447 kcal |
| Fat | 25g |
| of which saturates | 5.9g |
| Carbohydrate | 53g |
| of which sugars | 26g |
| Fibre | 0.8g |
| Protein | 4.9g |
| Salt | 0.6g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and egg. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: WHEAT flour 23 %, EGGS, glucose-fructose 140 g syrup, sugar, rapeseed oil, stabilizer (glycerol), MILK fat, flavoring, raising agents (diphosphates, sodium carbonates), skimmed MILK powder, salt, whole MILK powder, emulsifier (E471), lemon juice concentrate 0.1%.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Lemon flavour | the lead | The reason to pick this over a plain bake. Citrus aroma compounds are light and volatile, so they arrive early in the mouthful and lift the sweetness rather than sitting underneath it. |
| Soft bake crumb | the format | A bake held at a higher moisture level than a biscuit, so it bends rather than snaps. This is what makes it a lunchbox item rather than a dunker. |
| Sweetness | high | The category norm. The acidity that comes with a lemon-led bake takes some of the weight off it, which is why it does not read as flat as a plain sweet bake would. |
Pack: Best before the date printed on the pack, and best kept sealed once opened.
Citron is the flavour and Le Petit is the range name, neither of which describes what is in the bake.
Sourcing & blend. LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Flavoured Soft Bakes, 5 Pack 140g comes from LU, one of the long-standing names of French biscuit baking, whose Le Petit range covers its small single-portion formats. That is brand heritage rather than a claim about where this pack was produced. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe.
What is in LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Flavoured Soft Bakes, 5 Pack 140g:
- In: five lemon flavoured soft bakes by the brand's own naming, 140g to the sealed pack.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference LU Le Petit Citron Lemon Flavoured Soft Bakes, 5 Pack 140g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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