# Oreo Original Vanilla-flavoured Cocoa Sandwich Cookies, 36 Cookies 396g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £3.40 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/oreo-original-vanilla-flavoured-cocoa-sandwich-cookies-36-cookies-396g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/oreo-original-vanilla-flavoured-cocoa-sandwich-cookies-36-cookies-396g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Oreo **Price:** £3.40 GBP **GTIN:** 7622202303838 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Oreo Original is the dark cocoa sandwich cookie with a vanilla-flavoured creme between two embossed halves, 36 cookies to this 396g family pack. Picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the branded sandwich biscuit every household already knows how to eat.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten) and soya. 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. The cocoa biscuit is faintly bitter and that is what stops the creme cloying. Three to four seconds in the tea, or cold milk and the twist.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We usually dispatch this line within 1 to 2 working days. Storage notes and pairing guidance are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Oreo Original is the dark cocoa sandwich cookie with a vanilla-flavoured creme between two embossed halves, and this is the large family pack: 36 cookies, 396g. The published pack listing describes them as suitable for vegetarians; the full dietary statement is on the current UK pack. The smaller 154g packs of the same cookie hold fourteen, which works out at the same 11g a cookie, so you are buying exactly the same biscuit in greater quantity rather than a different product. The only question is whether your household gets through 36 before the pack goes soft, because a sandwich cookie loses its snap once air reaches it and the creme is what holds the moisture. The Taste Profile Cocoa biscuit: ●●●●● (5/5) Dark, dry and faintly bitter, closer to a cocoa shortbread than to a chocolate bar. It is the bitterness here that keeps the creme from being sickly. Vanilla-flavoured creme: ●●●●○ (4/5) Sweet, soft and fatty rather than dairy-rich, which is what lets it sit between two biscuits without making them soggy. Snap: ●●●●● (5/5) A hard clean break. The biscuit is baked dry and thin, which is why it survives being twisted apart and why it dunks well. Sweetness: ●●●●○ (4/5) High in the creme, moderate in the biscuit, and the two average out to something you can eat three of without the palate giving up. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.6 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind The Pack The sandwich cookie is one of the few biscuit formats that is genuinely engineered rather than simply baked. Two thin, hard, low-moisture biscuits hold a soft fat-based filling that contains almost no water, which is the only reason the whole thing stays crisp on a shelf for months. Put a dairy cream or a jam in the same place and the biscuits would go soft within days. The embossed pattern is not only decoration either: the raised design stiffens a thin biscuit in the same way corrugation stiffens cardboard. Oreo has been made in that shape for more than a century and the ritual around it has outlived several owners: twist the halves apart, deal with the creme however you deal with it, then dunk. That ritual is worth mentioning because it is the reason this cookie sells to adults and children in the same house. 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. A 396g pack carries less packaging per cookie than the small 154g packs do, which is the straightforward environmental argument for buying the big one if you will finish it. The outer wrapper and any inner tray take different recycling routes, and those routes differ by council. Read the current UK pack and check locally. How Does Oreo Original Vanilla-flavoured Cocoa Sandwich Cookies, 36 Cookies 396g Compare to: Oreo Original Vanilla Sandwich Cookies, 14 Cookies 154g: the same cookie at the same 11g each in a smaller pack. The right buy if a big pack would go soft before it was finished. Oreo Double Stuff Cookie Chocolate Sandwich Biscuits, 157g: the same biscuits with a thicker layer of creme between them. Sweeter, softer in the mouth and less good at dunking, because there is more filling to give. Oreo Golden Cookie Sandwich Biscuits, 154g: the pale version, with a plain vanilla biscuit instead of the cocoa one. Sweeter overall because the bitterness that balances the creme is missing. Ideal Brewing Conditions A cocoa biscuit with a sweet fatty filling gives the cup two jobs: cut the sugar, and clear the fat. Tea does the first well and coffee does the second, which is why these work with both. What does not work is a sweetened drink of any kind, because the creme has already supplied all the sugar the mouth can use. The Everyday Mug Brew: A standard black tea, one bag per 200ml at a full boil, three minutes. Medium rather than stewed. Milk: A splash. The creme is fatty, so a little dairy in the cup reads as continuity rather than clash. Dunk: Three to four seconds, whole rather than twisted. The biscuit is baked dry and thin, which is exactly why it takes a dunk better than a thicker cookie. Count: Three cookies, which is about the point where the creme starts to tell. Twist, Lick, Dunk Twist: Hold both halves flat and turn rather than pull. The embossed side usually comes away clean and the creme stays on the other. Lick: Optional, and entirely a matter of household politics. Dunk: Dunk the bare half, not the one with the creme on it. Creme in hot tea melts into a slick and the biscuit loses its footing. Cold milk: The traditional partner for this ritual and the one most people learn first. It works because cold milk softens without melting the filling. Serving Notes For Oreo Original Vanilla-flavoured Cocoa Sandwich Cookies, 36 Cookies 396g Water temperature: Full boil for tea; standard brewing temperature for coffee. Measure: One bag per 200ml, three cookies a person. Steep: Three minutes, medium. There is no need to go long; the cocoa biscuit brings bitterness of its own. Service: A splash of milk, no sugar. Dunk: Three to four seconds whole, or dunk the bare half after twisting. Iced version: Cold milk or an unsweetened iced black tea. Cold is the traditional pairing for this cookie and it is traditional because it works. Best with: Black tea with a splash of milk, plain filter coffee, or cold milk. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten) and soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Cookie weight: 396g across 36 cookies is 11g each. That is our own calculation from the published pack figures rather than a weight printed on the pack. Storage: Seal the pack or decant to a tin. The biscuits are baked dry and thin, which is what gives the snap, and thin dry biscuits soften faster than thick ones once air reaches them. Child safety: Keep the kettle and the hot mug out of reach of children while you brew. ## Product Questions Why does an Oreo stay crisp when other filled biscuits go soft?Because the filling contains almost no water. Two thin, hard, low-moisture biscuits around a fat-based creme is a genuinely engineered format; put a dairy cream or a jam in the same place and the biscuits would soften within days. What should I drink with them?A standard black tea with a splash of milk and no sugar, a plain filter coffee, or cold milk. Tea cuts the sugar and coffee clears the fat. A sweetened drink of any kind is redundant beside this biscuit. How long can I dunk one?Three to four seconds whole. If you have twisted it apart, dunk the bare half rather than the one carrying the creme, because creme in hot tea melts into a slick and the biscuit loses its grip. How many cookies are in this pack and how big is each one?36 cookies in 396g, which is 11g each. That figure is our own calculation from the published pack figures rather than a weight printed on the pack, and it matches the smaller 154g pack of fourteen exactly. Is the big pack a better buy than the small one? It is only the better buy if your household finishes 36 while they are still crisp, because a thin dry biscuit softens quickly once the pack is open. What is the difference between this and Double Stuff?The biscuits are the same; Double Stuff carries a thicker layer of creme. It is sweeter, softer in the mouth and a worse dunker, because there is more filling to give way. Is the biscuit actually chocolate?It is a cocoa biscuit rather than a chocolate-coated one, which is why it reads dry and faintly bitter rather than sweet and creamy. That bitterness is doing the balancing work against the filling. How do I keep them crisp once the pack is open?Seal the wrapper properly or decant into an airtight tin. Thin dry biscuits lose their snap faster than thick ones, and a softened Oreo does not come back. Can I bake with them?Yes, and they make the best dark cheesecake base in any supermarket, creme and all. Crush the whole cookie, use less butter than a plain crumb needs, and add no sugar at all. ## Ingredients & Nutrition Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten) and soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: WHEAT flour, sugar, palm oil, rapeseed oil, WHEAT starch, fat reduced cocoa powder 4.7%, glucose-fructose syrup, raising agents (ammonium carbonates, potassium carbonates, sodium carbonates), salt, emulsifier (SOYA lecithins), acidity regulator (sodium hydroxide), flavourings.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy473 kcalFat19.5gof which saturates5.5gCarbohydrate68.2gof which sugars35.5gFibre2.7gProtein5.5gSalt0gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsCocoa sandwich biscuitstwo halvesThin, hard and baked dry, dark and faintly bitter rather than sweet. The bitterness is what balances the filling, and the dryness is what gives the snap and the dunk.Vanilla-flavoured cremethe fillingSoft, sweet and fat-based rather than dairy-rich, containing almost no water, which is the only reason the biscuits stay crisp around it on a shelf.Embossed patternboth facesDecoration and structure at once: the raised design stiffens a very thin biscuit in the same way corrugation stiffens cardboard.Cookie count36 cookies396g across 36 cookies is 11g each, which is our own calculation from the published pack figures and matches the 154g pack of fourteen exactly.Pack: Oreo Original Vanilla-flavoured Cocoa Sandwich Cookies, 36 cookies 396g; a family pack of cocoa sandwich biscuits with a vanilla-flavoured creme filling. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best sealed or tinned once opened.Characterising components shown.Sourcing & blend. Oreo Original Vanilla-flavoured Cocoa Sandwich Cookies, 36 cookies 396g carries the Oreo name, an American sandwich cookie that has been made in the same shape for more than a century and has become one of the few biscuits recognised on sight almost everywhere. The format is engineered as much as baked: two thin hard low-moisture biscuits around a fat-based filling with almost no water in it, which is why the whole thing survives months on a shelf without softening. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market. The reading of the cocoa biscuit as dry and faintly bitter, and of that bitterness balancing the creme, is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.What is in Oreo Original Vanilla-flavoured Cocoa Sandwich Cookies, 36 Cookies 396g, and what is not:In: 36 cocoa sandwich cookies with a vanilla-flavoured creme filling, 396g to the pack, 11g a cookie by our own calculation.Not a chocolate-coated biscuit: the dark colour is cocoa in the biscuit itself, not a coating, which is why it reads dry and faintly bitter rather than sweet and creamy.Not suitable for vegans on the strength of the name: the published pack listing says suitable for vegetarians, which is a different claim. Read the current pack. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Oreo Original Vanilla-flavoured Cocoa Sandwich Cookies, 36 cookies 396g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains why a biscuit this sweet does not taste sickly.The outer layer is the cocoa biscuit, and it lands first because it is the outside of the sandwich. It is dark, dry and faintly bitter, much closer to a cocoa shortbread than to anything chocolate-coated. That opening is unusual for a sweet biscuit: most start sweet and stay sweet, whereas this one starts slightly bitter and sets the mouth up for what follows.The flavour spike is the creme. Soft, sweet and fat-based rather than dairy-rich, it arrives as soon as the biscuit breaks and it carries almost all of the sugar in the product. Because the biscuit either side of it is bitter, the sweetness reads as contrast rather than as excess, which is the whole architecture of the thing. It is also the layer that decides how the cookie behaves in a mug, because fat melts and starch does not.The base structure is the snap and the finish. The biscuits are baked thin and hard, so the break is clean and the crumb is dry, and the finish clears far more quickly than a coated or filled biscuit usually manages. That quick clearing is why three of these is comfortable where three caramel biscuits would not be, and why the pack disappears faster than anybody plans.Getting it right in the cup. Serve three cookies a person with a standard black tea, one bag per 200ml at a full boil for three minutes, a splash of milk and no sugar. There is no need to brew long here, because the cocoa biscuit brings bitterness of its own. Dunk whole for three to four seconds, or twist first and dunk the bare half rather than the creme-bearing one. Cold milk is the traditional partner and it works for a mechanical reason: cold softens the biscuit without melting the filling. Once the pack is open, seal it properly or decant to a tin, because thin dry biscuits soften fast.How water and temperature change it. Temperature does more to this cookie than to most, because the filling is fat rather than sugar syrup. In a hot mug the creme begins to melt within a couple of seconds and turns slippery, which is why a twisted half dunks better than a whole one; in cold milk nothing melts at all and the biscuit simply softens evenly, which is the reason children arrive at that pairing without being told. In the cup itself, a longer hotter steep pulls tannin that cuts the creme, while a short weak brew leaves it standing. Hard tap water flattens black tea and blunts exactly that cut, so brew a minute longer in a hard water area. ## Recipe Ideas A cocoa sandwich cookie is the most useful sweet biscuit in a kitchen after the plain digestive, because the creme is built into the crumb and does half the work of any base you make with it. Six builds below, starting with the twist and ending with a fridge cake. Recipes, born here first Twist, Lick, Dunk How to eat an Oreo the way the format was designed to be eaten. 3 min 1 glass Easy You will need 3 Oreo Original cookies 200ml cold milk Or a mug of black tea Method Twist the halves by turning rather than pulling, holding both sides flat. Keep the creme on one half; the embossed side usually comes away clean. Dunk the bare half for three to four seconds. Creme in hot liquid melts and the biscuit loses its grip. Use cold milk if you want the whole cookie in one go, because cold softens without melting. What you will end up with: A softened biscuit with the filling still intact, which is what the twist is actually for. The Best Dark Cheesecake Base There Is How to make a cheesecake base from Oreo Original cookies. 15 min + chill 8 slices Easy You will need 250g Oreo Original cookies, creme and all 50g melted butter A pinch of salt Method Crush the whole cookies, filling included, to a fine dark crumb. Stir in only 50g of melted butter, because the creme is fat and is already doing most of the binding. Press firmly into a lined 20cm tin with a pinch of salt. Chill for an hour and add no sugar at all to the base. What you will end up with: A dark, almost black base with a clean bitter edge, which is why it beats a digestive crumb under a sweet filling. Cookies And Cream Ice Cream How to fold Oreo Original through vanilla ice cream. 10 min + freeze 6 portions Easy You will need 8 Oreo Original cookies, broken 500ml vanilla ice cream Method Soften 500ml of vanilla ice cream for ten minutes. Break eight cookies into rough pieces rather than crumb, so there is something to bite. Fold them through quickly and evenly. Refreeze for two hours; the pieces soften slightly in the freezer, which is the texture you want. What you will end up with: The original reason this cookie ended up in a freezer aisle, made at home. Oreo Milkshake How to make a cookies and cream milkshake with Oreo Original. 5 min 2 glasses Easy You will need 6 Oreo Original cookies 300ml cold milk 3 scoops vanilla ice cream Method Blend four cookies with 300ml of cold milk and three scoops of vanilla ice cream. Pulse the last two cookies in at the end so some pieces stay whole. Pour into tall glasses and add no sugar; there is plenty. Drink at once, before the pieces soften completely. What you will end up with: A thick shake with texture still in it, which is what separates a homemade one from a machine-made one. Dunked In Cold Milk For Four How to serve Oreo Original to a table of children. 4 min 4 people Easy You will need 12 Oreo Original cookies 4 small glasses of cold milk Method Pour four small glasses of cold milk rather than one large one, so nobody runs out mid-dunk. Serve three cookies each. Let them twist. It is half the reason the format has lasted. Seal the pack afterwards; a thin dry biscuit softens fast once air is at it. What you will end up with: The pairing most people learn first, and the one that still works best with this particular biscuit. Oreo Fridge Cake How to make a no-bake fridge cake with Oreo Original. 20 min + chill 12 pieces Easy You will need 250g Oreo Original cookies, broken 80g butter 2 tablespoons golden syrup 200g dark chocolate Method Break the cookies into rough pieces by hand, filling and all. Melt 80g of butter with 2 tablespoons of golden syrup and fold the biscuit through. Press into a lined tin and pour over 200g of melted dark chocolate. Chill three hours and cut small with a hot knife. What you will end up with: Dark chocolate over a dark bitter crumb, with the creme melting into the butter and binding the whole slab. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._