Island Bakery Chocolate Ginger Biscuits
125 gram box - Isle of Mull, Scotland
Open the foil and smell - you can smell the biscuits' composition of wheat and the subtle chocolate that a calm chocolate smells like.
The first bite of half chocolate, half biscuit is firm, crisp, and out jumps the ginger! Wow!
This is a good bite! With the bits of ginger encased, hiding in the biscuit and blending as the chocolate crumbles and melts, pulling the bite altogether. It is good!
And the ginger is spicy like only ginger can be! Fun like a cookie should be!
The Island Bakery Story
Joe & Dawn Reade were fresh-faced and naïve young graduates of the University of Edinburgh when they started baking bread in a converted garage in Tobermory in 1994. The local baker was retiring, and the islanders needed someone to keep them in lovely fresh loaves.
In 1996, they bought a shop premises on Tobermory’s colorful Main Street, which became the Island Bakery Delicatessen. It was through stocking the deli with tempting specialty foods that Dawn realized that there was a bit of a gap in the market for tempting organic biscuits. Keen to make something that could travel beyond Mull, the Reades thought that biscuits seemed to be an excellent product to introduce to places beyond the island’s shores.
In 2001, Island Bakery Organics was born. Initially, the range had just 4 varieties. Quality, not quantity! The first biscuit customers included Harvey Nichols & Selfridges. Within the first year, the company picked up several Great Taste awards and scooped an Organic Food award.
By 2007, the biscuit side of the business had overtaken the deli, and the Reades made the difficult decision to sell their shop to concentrate on biscuits. Soon afterward, plans were made to build a new bakery. The new premises were completed in June 2012. Powered by local renewable energy – wind and water for electricity, and wood for heating the ovens – the building makes Joe & Dawn feel all grown up now.
Ingredients: Flour (WHEAT), Dark Chocolate 26% (Cocoa Mass, Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Vanilla Powder), Butter (MILK), Sugar, Crystallised Stem Ginger 8% (Ginger, Sugar), Invert Sugar Syrup, Powdered Root Ginger 1.5%, Sea Salt*, Raising Agent*: Ammonium Carbonate. *non-organic.