Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies, 200g
Bought without a decision and then scored as though a decision had been made, which is roughly why this one collects a harder mark from customers than it deserves. Taken for what it actually is, it is the biscuit a household agrees on. No spice to divide anybody, nothing on the outside to mark the other things in the tin, and nothing anyone has to look twice at the label about beyond the obvious. Neutrality is the whole value here, and in a kitchen shared by several people it is worth more than a more interesting biscuit usually is. It works harder off the plate than on it, too, crushed into a base or broken over something cold, where a plainer biscuit would give you nothing back and a coated one would leave a slick of fat behind. It is not going to be the most memorable thing anybody eats this week and it has never pretended otherwise. Wheat, so not suitable for a coeliac diet.
Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies, in brief.
Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies is the single 200g sleeve of the cookie most British kitchens default to, crisp rather than soft-baked, with the chips through the biscuit rather than coating it, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the everyday cookie that suits a mug of tea.
Buy the sleeve you will finish: a crisp cookie goes soft within days of air reaching it. Two seconds in the tea, and the chips set the limit.
The only reason to buy the twin pack is that you want 400g of cookies in the house rather than 200g. If you want one sleeve, buy one sleeve.
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 making the American chocolate chip cookie work on a British shelf, and the compromise that required is visible in every biscuit. A bakery cookie is thick, soft and eaten within a day or two. A packet cookie has to survive weeks of distribution and still be worth opening, which pushes the recipe thinner and crisper. That is why these snap rather than bend, and it is why they behave like a biscuit at a British tea break rather than like a cookie with a glass of milk, whatever the name on the sleeve suggests.
The single sleeve is also a freshness argument. A crisp cookie starts losing its texture the moment air reaches it, and a 200g sleeve is roughly what a household gets through before that matters. The larger pack makes sense only if you will finish it at the same rate. The ingredient panel, nutrition and allergen statement are likewise on the current UK pack.
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.
- Buying the sleeve you will actually finish wastes less than buying a bigger pack and throwing away the soft half.
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
It clears the palate rather than coating it, it holds a short dunk, and it does not demand a particular strength of cup. The only real mistake is brewing something strong enough to bury it.
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 leave it out; this biscuit genuinely does not mind either way. No sugar.
- Take two. 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
- Pour the milk straight from the fridge; this is the pairing the format came from 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 for a second if you like; cold milk softens the chips more slowly than hot tea does.
What you'll end up with: The same biscuit tasting noticeably different, which is worth doing once just to see how much the drink matters.
The Two Second Dunk
How to make The Two Second Dunk with Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- 1 chocolate chip cookie
- 1 mug of medium tea
- Two seconds
- Submerge half the cookie and count two.
- Watch the chips rather than the biscuit. The base will hold longer; the chocolate is what softens and drops.
- Lift and eat the wet half immediately, while the softened chips are still warm.
- Skip the dunk entirely if the sleeve has been open a week; a softened cookie has nothing left to give.
What you'll end up with: Warm melted chips in a still-crisp biscuit, which is the whole reason to dunk this one rather than any other.
Flecked Cheesecake Base
How to make Flecked Cheesecake Base with Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- 150g cookies, crushed
- 60g melted butter
- A pinch of salt
- A 20cm tin, lined
- Crush in a bag with a rolling pin. A crisp cookie breaks to a clean flecked crumb where a soft one would smear.
- Use a little less butter than a plain digestive base needs; the cookie is already rich.
- Press into a lined tin with the back of a spoon and chill for at least an hour.
- Top with a plain or vanilla filling so the dark chip flecks show through the side of the slice.
A Tray Of Ice Cream Sandwiches
How to make A Tray Of Ice Cream Sandwiches with Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- 12 cookies
- 6 small scoops vanilla ice cream
- Freezer, 1 hour
- Soften the ice cream for five minutes so it spreads rather than cracking the biscuits.
- Sandwich a small scoop between two cookies and press gently until the filling reaches the edge.
- Freeze on a lined tray for an hour. A crisp cookie firms further in the freezer rather than going hard and inedible.
- Serve straight from frozen; they soften quickly once out.
What you'll end up with: Six puddings out of one sleeve, and a use for the last of a pack that has been open a few days.
Keeping The Sleeve Crisp
How to make Keeping The Sleeve Crisp with Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies.
- 1 opened sleeve
- A clip or an airtight tub
- A cool dry cupboard
- Fold and clip the sleeve the first time you open it, not the third.
- Keep it away from the shelf above the kettle. Steam softens a crisp cookie faster than room air does.
- Buy the size you will finish. A 200g sleeve is roughly a household week, which is the window before the snap goes.
- Use anything that has softened for the cheesecake base or the ice cream sandwiches rather than throwing it out.
What you'll end up with: A sleeve that is still worth opening on day five, which is the only thing that actually matters with a crisp biscuit.
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 | 0.58g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this product 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 product: 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.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. 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 carrying more of the flavour than most people credit it with. The thin, crisp bake is what lets a packet cookie survive distribution and still snap. |
| Chocolate chips | through the biscuit | Distributed rather than coating a face, so the chocolate arrives in pockets and no two bites are quite the same. They are also what sets the two-second limit on a dunk. |
Pack: Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies, 200g; a single sleeve of crisp chocolate chip cookies. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best resealed the moment the sleeve is opened.
Sourcing & blend. Maryland Chocolate Chip Cookies, 200g is made by Maryland, which built its name on making the American chocolate chip cookie work on a British shelf. The compromise that required is visible in every biscuit: a bakery cookie is thick, soft and eaten within a day or two, while a packet cookie has to survive weeks of distribution and still be worth opening, which pushes the recipe thinner and crisper. That is why these snap rather than bend, and why they behave like a biscuit at a British tea break rather than like a cookie with a glass of milk, whatever the name on the sleeve suggests. 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 Cookies, 200g, and what is not:
- In: crisp baked chocolate chip cookies in a single 200g sleeve.
- 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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