Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookie Twin Pack, 2 Pack 400g
The cookie nobody objects to. Crisp rather than soft-baked, so it survives a dunk where a bakery-style cookie gives up halfway. The chips sit inside rather than on top, which is why butter and browned sugar arrive before any cocoa and why it reads less sweet than anything coated. Plain tea, or cold milk if you are eight.
Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookie Twin Pack, in brief.
Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookie Twin Pack is two sealed 200g sleeves, 400g in total, of the crisp British reading of an American cookie, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the biscuit almost nobody in a room turns down.
It snaps rather than yields, which makes it a better partner for a hot cup than a soft-baked cookie: it holds a two-second dunk and clears the palate rather than coating it. Two sealed sleeves keep the second one crisp.
Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookie Twin Pack is two 200g sleeves, 400g in total, of the cookie almost nobody in Britain turns down. The chocolate chip cookie is the least controversial biscuit there is: no spice to divide a room, no marshmallow to check the label for, no assortment politics about who takes the good one. That is not a criticism. Reliability is a real quality in a biscuit, and it is the reason this pack ends up in more households than anything more interesting.
The version here is the crisp British reading of an American idea rather than the soft-baked bakery one. It snaps rather than yields, which makes it a far better partner for a hot drink than a soft cookie is, because it holds together long enough to be worth dunking and it clears the palate rather than coating it. The twin pack is worth understanding too: two sealed sleeves rather than one large one, so the second stays crisp while you work through the first.
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.
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The Story Behind The Pack
Maryland built its name on translating the American chocolate chip cookie into something that works on a British biscuit shelf, and the translation involved a real decision. A bakery-style cookie is soft, thick and eaten fresh; a packet cookie has to survive weeks of distribution and still be worth opening, which pushes the recipe towards a thinner, crisper bake. That is why these snap rather than bend, and it is why they behave like a biscuit in a British tea break rather than like a cookie with a glass of milk.
The twin pack is two of them, 400g in total. We have said so rather than quietly using the larger number, because a weight that moves without explanation should never happen in a catalogue.
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.
- Two sealed sleeves rather than one large one is the format doing something genuinely useful: the second sleeve stays crisp while the first is open, which means fewer soft cookies thrown away at the end.
The story behind Maryland
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
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
A crisp chocolate chip cookie is one of the easiest biscuits to pair, which is part of why it ends up in so many kitchens. It is only moderately sweet, it clears the palate rather than coating it, and it has enough structure to be dunked properly. That means almost any decent cup works, and the only real mistake is brewing something so strong it overwhelms a fairly gentle biscuit.
The Everyday Mug
The Cold Milk Route
Made with this tea
The Everyday Mug
How to make The Everyday Mug with Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- 2 chocolate chip cookies
- 1 bag standard black tea
- 200ml water at a full boil
- Milk, optional
- Brew one bag in 200ml straight off the boil for three to four minutes. Medium, not stewed.
- Add milk or not; this is one of the few biscuits that genuinely does not mind. No sugar.
- Take two cookies, not three. Three is where the moderate sweetness stops being an advantage.
- Reseal the sleeve before you sit down, while you still remember.
The Cold Milk Serve
How to make The Cold Milk Serve with Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- 3 chocolate chip cookies
- 1 tall glass of cold milk
- Ice, optional
- Pour a tall glass of milk straight from the fridge. This is the pairing the format was built around before it reached a British tea table.
- Eat one cookie dry first and notice the chocolate leading.
- Eat the next with milk. Fat and cold suppress sweetness, so the golden base comes forward and the chips read darker.
- Dunk if you like, but only for a second; cold milk softens the chips more slowly than hot tea does.
What you'll end up with: The same biscuit doing a completely different job, which is worth knowing about once.
The Two Second Dunk
How to make The Two Second Dunk with Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- 2 chocolate chip cookies
- 1 bag black tea
- 200ml water at a full boil
- Brew the tea and let it stand a minute. A cup straight off the boil softens the chips too fast to control.
- Dunk for a count of two, holding the cookie flat rather than edge on.
- Lift and eat immediately. The base will hold longer than two seconds; the chips will not.
- If chips end up in the mug, you counted too slowly.
What you'll end up with: One of the better dunkers in the aisle, used at the limit the chocolate sets rather than the biscuit.
Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Base
How to make Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Base with Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- 200g cookies, one whole sleeve
- 80g melted butter
- A pinch of salt
- Crush a whole 200g sleeve to a fine crumb. A crisp cookie crushes cleanly where a soft one smears.
- Stir in 80g of melted butter and a pinch of salt until it holds together when pressed.
- Press firmly into a lined 20cm tin and chill for an hour before filling.
- The chips stay as visible dark flecks through the base, which a plain digestive will not give you.
What you'll end up with: A flecked, golden base using one sleeve, with the second still sealed for the tin.
Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich
How to make Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich with Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- 8 chocolate chip cookies
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- A pinch of flaky salt
- Soften the ice cream for five minutes so it spreads without cracking the cookies.
- Sandwich a scoop between two, pressing gently and evenly rather than hard at one edge.
- Roll the exposed edge through a pinch of flaky salt and wrap each one.
- Freeze for an hour. A crisp cookie firms up in the freezer rather than going to paste.
What you'll end up with: Four sandwiches from half a sleeve.
The Lunchbox Rotation
How to make The Lunchbox Rotation with Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- 10 chocolate chip cookies
- 5 small rigid tins or boxes
- A flask of black tea, optional
- Open one sleeve only and leave the second sealed. That is what the twin pack is for.
- Pack two cookies into each of five rigid boxes rather than bags; a crisp cookie shatters in a soft bag.
- Reseal what is left of the open sleeve and put it in a cool dry cupboard.
- Open the second sleeve only when the first is finished, and the last cookie will be as crisp as the first.
What you'll end up with: A week of two-cookie portions and nothing thrown away soft, which is the whole point of two sleeves.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 483 kcal |
| Fat | 22g |
| of which saturates | 11g |
| Carbohydrate | 65g |
| of which sugars | 31g |
| Fibre | 2.1g |
| Protein | 5.5g |
| Salt | 0.6g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya, and it may contain nuts. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Wheat flour (Wheat flour, Calcium carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin). Chocolate chips (25%) (Sugar, Cocoa mass, Vegetable fats (Sustainable palm, Shea, Sal), Emulsifiers (Soya lecithin, E442, E476), Cocoa butter, Flavourings), Sugar, Sustainable palm oil, Whey or whey derivatives (Milk). Partially inverted sugar syrup, Raising agents (Sodium bicarbonate, Ammonium bicarbonate), Salt, Flavourings. !. May contain nuts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baked cookie base | the body | Golden and faintly caramelised from the bake, and doing more of the flavour work than most people credit. The thin, crisp bake is what lets a packet cookie survive distribution and still snap. |
| Chocolate chips | through the biscuit | Distributed rather than coating the outside, so they arrive in pockets rather than all at once. They are also what sets the two-second limit on a dunk. |
Pack: Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookie Twin Pack, 2 x 200g; two sealed sleeves of crisp chocolate chip cookies, 400g in total. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best resealed once a sleeve is open.
Sourcing & blend. Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookie Twin Pack, 2 x 200g is made by Maryland, which built its name on translating the American chocolate chip cookie into something that works on a British biscuit shelf. That translation involved a real decision: a bakery cookie is soft, thick and eaten fresh, while a packet cookie has to survive weeks of distribution and still be worth opening, which pushes the recipe towards a thinner, crisper bake. It is why these snap rather than bend, and why they behave like a biscuit in a tea break rather than like a cookie with a glass of milk. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe.
What is in Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookie Twin Pack, 2 x 200g, and what is not:
- In: crisp baked chocolate chip cookies in two sealed 200g sleeves, 400g in total.
- Not soft-baked: this is the crisp British reading of the format rather than a bakery-style cookie, which is an editorial description of the bake rather than a claim off the pack.
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