Tunnock's Real Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits Multipack, 8 x 30g
Plenty on this shelf has quietly got smaller over the years. This one has not, and that counts for something when almost everything around it has been shaved. The rest is the build: five layers of wafer make a bite you work through rather than one that vanishes. Eight is the right number to keep in a cupboard. Wheat in the wafer, milk in the coating.
Tunnock's Real Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits Multipack, in brief.
Tunnock's Caramel Wafer is layers of wafer with caramel between them under a milk chocolate coating, in the striped foil that has barely changed in decades. This is the multipack: eight wafers of 30g, 240g in total, from the family bakery at Uddingston. Picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the wafer that eats like a proper biscuit.
Caramel between every layer weights the wafer so it yields slowly rather than collapsing, which is what separates this from a plain wafer bar. Strong tea, no sugar, and keep it out of the mug.
Tunnock's Caramel Wafer is one of the few biscuits in Britain that has not been redesigned in living memory: layers of wafer with caramel between them, coated in milk chocolate and wrapped in striped foil. This is the multipack, eight wafers of 30g each, 240g in total.
The construction is the point, and it is unusual. Most wafer bars put chocolate on the outside and nothing in between; this one fills the layers with caramel, which does two things at once. It stops the wafer being weightless, so the bar has some substance to it rather than vanishing under the teeth, and it brings a toasted, faintly bitter note that the chocolate on its own does not have. The result eats slower than a plain wafer bar and reads more like a proper biscuit, which is why it has held its place on Scottish shelves and everybody else's for generations.
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 pairing guidance are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind The Pack
Tunnock's is a family bakery at Uddingston in Lanarkshire and the caramel wafer is its best-known product by a distance. The striped foil wrapper has barely changed in decades, which is worth mentioning because it is genuinely unusual: almost every other biscuit on a British shelf has been restyled, resized or relaunched several times over in the same period. When a product stays still that long it is usually because changing it would lose more than it gained.
The engineering behind it explains the staying power. Layering caramel between thin wafers rather than putting it in one band means the sweetness is distributed through the bite instead of arriving all at once, and the caramel adds enough moisture and weight to stop the wafer eating like air. The chocolate coating then seals the whole thing, which is what keeps a wafer crisp inside a wrapper for months. The full ingredient declaration, the nutrition panel and the allergen statement are printed 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.
- Eight individual foil wrappers use more packaging than a single larger bar would. What they buy back is a wafer that is still crisp weeks later, and a sealed wafer is one of the few biscuits that genuinely needs that protection.
- The outer pack and the individual foil wrappers take different recycling routes, and those routes differ by council. Read the current UK pack and check locally.
- A wafer that has gone soft is thrown away rather than eaten, so the wrapper is doing real work here rather than decorative work. We would still rather you bought a size the house will finish.
Serving Notes For Tunnock's Real Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits Multipack, 8 x 30g
- Water temperature: Full boil. A caramel wafer needs strong tea, not delicate tea.
- Measure: One bag per 200ml, one wafer a person.
- Steep: Four minutes, taken strong.
- Service: A splash of milk, and no sugar under any circumstances.
- Dunk: No. The coating holds the layers together and hot liquid undoes it.
- Iced version: Cold milk or an unsweetened iced black tea. Cold suppresses sweetness, which suits this biscuit better than most.
- Best with: Strong black tea with a splash of milk, plain black coffee, or cold milk.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Tunnock's Real Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits Multipack, 8 x 30g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Tunnock's
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
This is a sweet biscuit with a chocolate coating and caramel throughout, so the cup has two jobs: cut the sugar and clear the fat. A properly strong black tea does both, and it is the traditional partner for good reason. What does not work is anything sweetened, because there is no headroom left.
The Strong Mug
The Lunchbox Route
Made with this tea
The Strong Mug And One
How to serve a Tunnock's Caramel Wafer with tea that can stand up to it.
- 1 Tunnock's Caramel Wafer
- 1 bag strong black tea
- 200ml water at a full boil
- A splash of milk
- Brew one bag in 200ml at a full boil for four minutes and take it to the stronger end.
- Add a splash of milk and no sugar at all.
- Eat the wafer whole rather than dunking it; the coating holds the layers together.
- Finish with the tea, which is the only thing that clears a caramel finish.
What you will end up with: A rich wafer and a clean palate afterwards, which is the entire reason the pairing is traditional.
Caramel Wafer Fridge Slice
How to make a fridge slice with Tunnock's Caramel Wafers.
- 4 Tunnock's Caramel Wafers, chopped
- 200g plain digestive biscuits
- 100g butter
- 2 tablespoons golden syrup
- 200g dark chocolate
- Chop four wafers into rough pieces and crush the digestives coarsely.
- Melt 100g of butter with 2 tablespoons of golden syrup and fold everything through; the caramel melts into the butter and binds the slab.
- 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 caramel, with wafer crunch that holds up for a day or two before it softens into the slab.
Millionaire Sundae
How to build a sundae with Tunnock's Caramel Wafers.
- 2 Tunnock's Caramel Wafers, chopped
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- Flaky sea salt
- 1 teaspoon strong black coffee
- Chop two wafers into rough pieces rather than crumbs.
- Layer with vanilla ice cream in two glasses.
- Drip a teaspoon of strong black coffee over the top, which keeps caramel and vanilla from reading flat together.
- Finish with a little flaky salt and serve at once.
What you will end up with: A millionaire shortbread in a glass, with the bitterness of coffee and salt doing the balancing that the caramel needs.
Cold Milk And One
How to serve Tunnock's Caramel Wafers to children.
- 4 Tunnock's Caramel Wafers
- 4 small glasses of cold milk
- Give one wrapped wafer each rather than opening several at once.
- Pour small glasses of cold milk; cold suppresses sweetness, which suits this biscuit particularly well.
- Skip the dunking and say why: the coating is holding the wafer together.
- Return the rest of the pack to a cool dark cupboard.
What you will end up with: Four portions, four foil wrappers, and four wafers still sealed for the next time.
Wafer Crumb Cheesecake Top
How to use Tunnock's Caramel Wafers as a cheesecake topping.
- 3 Tunnock's Caramel Wafers, chopped
- A pinch of flaky salt
- One chilled plain cheesecake
- Chop three wafers into rough pieces just before serving, not in advance.
- Scatter them over a chilled plain cheesecake with a pinch of flaky salt.
- Serve within twenty minutes, while the wafer still has crunch.
- Keep the filling unsweetened or lightly sweetened; the topping has brought plenty.
What you will end up with: Crunch and caramel on a plain filling, added at the last minute so the wafer does not soften into it.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 448 kcal |
| Fat | 17.4g |
| of which saturates | 12.7g |
| Carbohydrate | 69.2g |
| of which sugars | 34.7g |
| Fibre | 2.5g |
| Protein | 3.6g |
| Salt | 0.67g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this product: Caramel (50%) (Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Sweetened Condensed Milk, Invert Sugar Syrup, Palm Oil, Flavouring, Emulsifier [Soya Lecithin]), Milk Chocolate (33%) (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Standardised Whole Milk, Skimmed Milk Powder, Palm Oil, Shea Butter, Emulsifier [Soya Lecithin], Flavouring), Wafer (17%) (Fortified Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Raising Agent [Sodium Bicarbonate], Salt, Emulsifier [Soya Lecithin]).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Caramel | between every layer | Distributed through the bite rather than arriving in one band, which is why the sweetness is even and why it is the first thing you taste. Toasted rather than flatly sweet. |
| Wafer layers | the structure | Thin and crisp, but weighted and moistened by the caramel between them, so they yield slowly instead of collapsing the way a plain wafer does. |
| Milk chocolate coating | the seal | Sweet and creamy, and doing a structural job as well as a flavour one: the coating is what keeps a wafer crisp inside a wrapper for months. |
| Foil wrapper | 8 to the pack | Each wafer stays sealed until it is opened. With a wafer this is real protection rather than decoration, because the structure takes up moisture readily. |
| Pack size | 8 x 30g, 240g | The 30g a wafer comes from the published pack listing; the 240g total is our own calculation from it. |
Pack: Tunnock's Real Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits Multipack, 8 x 30g; eight foil-wrapped caramel wafers, 240g in total. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best left wrapped until the wafer is wanted.
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Sourcing & blend. Tunnock's Real Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits Multipack, 8 x 30g is made by Tunnock's, a family bakery at Uddingston in Lanarkshire whose caramel wafer is its best-known product by a wide margin. The striped foil wrapper has barely changed in decades, which is genuinely unusual on a British shelf where almost everything else has been restyled or relaunched several times over. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market. The account of layered caramel distributing sweetness through the bite and weighting a wafer so it yields slowly, and of a chocolate coating sealing a wafer against moisture, is general food structure and our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description, not a claim taken off this pack.
What is in Tunnock's Real Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits Multipack, 8 x 30g, and what is not:
- In: eight foil-wrapped caramel wafers under a milk chocolate coating, 30g each and 240g in total.
- Not a plain wafer bar: the caramel between the layers is what gives this weight and substance. A plain wafer bar eats like air by comparison, and that is the clearest way to understand the difference.
- Not a dunker: the chocolate coating holds the layers together and hot liquid undoes it. Keep it on the plate.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Tunnock's Real Milk Chocolate Caramel Wafer Biscuits Multipack, 8 x 30g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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