Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Filled Biscuits Tube, 166g
Sugar has the run of this biscuit. Nothing bitter or savoury anywhere in it pushes back, so the cup has to: an espresso, a plain black coffee, a strong tea without sugar. Filed with the biscuits, it behaves like a dessert. The best thing to do with it is break two over vanilla ice cream and pour hot coffee over, at which point the centre melts into the cream and the shell holds on just long enough to matter. Hazelnut is named in the filling, so treat the pack as a nut product.
Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Filled Biscuits Tube, in brief.
Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Filled Biscuits Tube is a 166g tube of biscuits with a soft hazelnut chocolate centre baked inside a short crumbly shell, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the filled biscuit that keeps its centre genuinely soft.
The structure is the product. A shell baked around a soft filling cannot also be a hard snapping biscuit, so it is short and crumbly by necessity, and the rigid resealing tube exists because a filled biscuit is weaker than a solid one. The centre is fat-based, so keep it cool and out of the fridge, and do not dunk it. Hazelnut is in the name, so treat it as a nut-containing product.
The tube matters too, and not only as a shelf presence. A filled biscuit is structurally weaker than a solid one, because the centre is soft and the shell around it is thin, so a rigid cylinder that holds the biscuits upright in a stack does a real job that a flat sleeve cannot. It also closes again, which is more useful here than on almost any other biscuit.
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 Nutella
Nutella is an Italian house and a hazelnut chocolate spread is what the name means to most people, so a biscuit carrying it is a brand extension in the most literal sense: the spread has been put inside something.
What is genuinely interesting is the baking problem. A spread-filled biscuit has to be assembled so the shell bakes to a crisp finish while the centre stays soft and does not boil out, which is why the shells on this kind of product are short and slightly thick rather than thin and snapping. If you have ever wondered why a filled biscuit never has the clean crack of a plain one, that is the reason, and it is a constraint rather than a shortcoming.
The current pack carries all of it.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Weight: one hundred and sixty-six grams in a rigid tube rather than a flat sleeve or a box.
- A filled biscuit, not a sandwich: the centre is enclosed by the shell rather than pressed between two halves, which is why it stays soft and why it does not slide out when the biscuit warms.
- Hazelnut, stated by the brand: the product's own name says hazelnut chocolate spread, so treat this as a nut-containing product and read the pack for the full allergen statement.
- What it is not: not a dunking biscuit, not a tea biscuit and not something to keep in a warm car. The reasons are below and they all come from the soft centre.
Ideal Serving Conditions
Everything practical about a spread-filled biscuit follows from one fact: the centre is fat-based and fat softens with heat long before anything else in the biscuit does. That single property explains the storage rules, the dunking rule and why a warm room changes the product more than it changes a plain biscuit.
The Serving Rules
- Room temperature, not warm: the centre is designed to be soft at normal room temperature. Above that it becomes runny and the shell goes greasy at the seam.
- Do not dunk it: this is the one rule worth stating plainly. Hot liquid melts the centre, the shell is short and crumbles anyway, and what you get back is half a biscuit.
- Handle the stack gently: a filled biscuit is structurally weaker than a solid one. That is what the rigid tube is for.
- Close the tube: the lid is not a marketing flourish. It is the only thing between a short shell and the kitchen air.
The Storage Rules
- Cool, dark and stable: stability matters here more than with a plain biscuit, because a fat-based centre that warms and cools repeatedly changes texture permanently.
- Not the fridge: cold makes the centre hard and waxy, which is precisely the property the product was engineered to avoid, and a fridge is humid enough to soften the shell as well.
- Not a warm car and not the shelf above the oven: the two places filled biscuits most reliably go wrong.
- The low-oven refresh does not apply: warming this biscuit melts the centre. If the shell has gone soft, there is no rescue, which is the trade you accept for a soft filling.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Best with: a strong unsweetened black coffee or an espresso. Bitterness is the only thing that balances a filling this sweet.
- Also good with: a robust black tea taken without sugar, or a plain glass of cold milk.
- Avoid: hot chocolate, sweetened lattes and anything with syrup in it. Sweetness on sweetness leaves nothing for the palate to do.
- Dunking: no. See above, and this is the rare case where it is not a matter of taste.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Filled Biscuits Tube, 166g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Nutella
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
This is a filled biscuit with a soft fat-based centre, so the builds below are about serving it at the right temperature, keeping it there, and using it where a soft centre is an advantage rather than a liability. The cards are the espresso serving, the tube discipline, a two-minute affogato-style pudding, a no-bake fridge slice and a stuffed-pancake trick.
Made with this tea
With an Espresso, Not a Dunk
Why bitterness is the only thing that balances this filling.
- Nutella filled biscuits
- An espresso, or a strong black coffee, unsweetened
- Take the coffee without sugar. There is no bitter component in the biscuit to balance the filling, so the cup has to supply it.
- Serve the biscuits at room temperature, which is where the centre is meant to be soft.
- Do not dunk. Hot liquid melts the centre while the short shell crumbles, and the biscuit fails both ways at once.
What you'll end up with: A very sweet biscuit that stays interesting past the second one.
Tube Discipline
Storage for a biscuit where temperature matters more than humidity.
- The tube, with its lid
- A cool, dark, stable cupboard
- Close the lid between servings. A short shell takes up kitchen moisture quickly.
- Keep it somewhere stable. Repeated warming and cooling changes a fat-based filling permanently.
- Never the fridge, a warm car, or the shelf above the oven.
What you'll end up with: A centre still soft rather than runny or waxy.
Two-Minute Coffee Pudding
Where a soft centre stops being a liability and becomes the point.
- 4 filled biscuits
- 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
- A hot espresso
- Break the biscuits over the ice cream rather than crushing them, so the soft centres stay visible.
- Pour the hot espresso over the top at the table.
- Eat immediately. The coffee melts the centres, which here is exactly what you want.
What you'll end up with: A pudding built on the one property that ruins the biscuit anywhere else.
No-Bake Fridge Slice
Using the filling as part of the binder rather than as a flavour.
- One tube, broken into quarters
- 200g dark chocolate, melted
- 25g butter
- Break rather than crush, so there are whole pieces of filling through the slab.
- Fold into the melted chocolate and butter while it is only just warm, or the centres run out.
- Chill two hours and cut into squares straight from the fridge.
- Dark chocolate only. Milk chocolate on top of this filling is too much sugar in one direction.
What you'll end up with: A dark slab with soft hazelnut pockets through it.
The Stuffed Pancake
A weekend breakfast trick that uses the melting point instead of fighting it.
- 4 filled biscuits
- Your usual pancake batter
- Butter for the pan
- Spoon a little batter into the pan, lay a biscuit on it, then cover with more batter.
- Cook gently over a medium heat so the centre has time to melt before the outside colours.
- Flip once and serve straight away, with nothing sweet on top.
What you'll end up with: A pancake with a molten hazelnut centre and a crumbled shell through it.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 515 kcal |
| Fat | 24,8g |
| of which saturates | 11,5g |
| Carbohydrate | 64g |
| of which sugars | 35,8g |
| Protein | 7,9g |
| Salt | 0,559g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains wheat and barley (gluten), milk, soya and nuts (hazelnuts), and it may contain mustard. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baked biscuit shell | the outside of each biscuit | Short and slightly thick rather than thin and snapping, because a shell that bakes around a soft centre without it boiling out cannot also be hard. That is a constraint of the format. |
Pack: Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Filled Biscuits Tube, 166g; biscuits with a soft hazelnut chocolate centre in a rigid resealing tube, GTIN 8000500310397. Store cool, dark and stable, keep the lid closed, and keep it out of the fridge and out of a warm car. Read the ingredient list, the full allergen statement, the biscuit count and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown. That is the safe direction and it is stated as such. The sensory placements describe how a spread-filled biscuit behaves rather than a measured analysis, 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. Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Filled Biscuits Tube, 166g carries the name of an Italian house whose hazelnut chocolate spread is what most people mean by the word, and a biscuit carrying it is a brand extension in the most literal sense: the spread has been put inside something.
What's in Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Filled Biscuits Tube, 166g, and what isn't:
- In: filled biscuits with a soft hazelnut chocolate centre in a 166g rigid tube, the full recipe printed on the pack.
- Hazelnut: stated in the product's own name, so treat it as a nut-containing product and read the pack for the full statement.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Filled Biscuits Tube, 166g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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