Food discovery: Lotus Biscoff Biscuits Review

I'm not sure if anyone saw my instagram photo of the lotus biscoff minibons I had last month from cinnabon.. but those things were out of this world. When I was offered to try the new minibons I remember thinking "just what the hell are lotus biscoff's?" I've never heard of them.

Luckily for me, I tried it with a friend who explained that they are some sort of biscuit. After cinnabon discontinued the biscoff series, my sister and I searched for these biscuits everywhere.


For those who live in UAE, I got mine at Ajman city centre's carrefour (They don't sell it in every carrefour though, Deira city centre and Sharjah city centre for instance did not sell them). I got them at 8.50dhs a pack, I don't know what overcame me but I bought 4 packs in an instant.


So it is actually called biscoff and the company that sells it is called lotus (here I thought it was called lotus biscoff the whole time). Each pack consists of 25 individually packaged bicuits, good for portion control. It is a caramelised biscuit which claims:

To have no colour

No added flavours

Suited for vegetarians

Each biscuit is 30 calories.

It has a cute pattern border around the biscuit with the company's name in the middle.

It has a crispy texture to it. As for taste, it does remind me of digestive biscuits, perhaps gourmet digestive biscuits but with cinnamon and something extra I can't lay my finger on it. Also if you have tried the speculoos cookie butter, it's basically that in biscuit form. I heard they sold a lotus biscoff spread but unfortunately, I was not able to find any.

These are now my favourite biscuits (if cookies don't count), thank goodness I bought a lot because my sister and I are going through them like crazy!

The ingredients are : Wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oils (certified sustainable palm oil, rapeseed oil), candy sugar syrup, raising agent (sodium hydrogen carbonate) soya flour, salt and cinnamon.

I give these biscuits 8.5/10

♥ Jess

Oven-baked Sweet Potato wedges recipe

So it's exam week right now and I'm feeling like a roller coaster full of emotions. During exams, I usually gain a good 2-3 kgs in two weeks because I like to snack while I stress study. This semester I'm trying to maintain my weight by opting for healthier versions of things I like to snack on.

Hope you enjoy these just as much as I did!

Ingredients:

• 2 large sweet potato 
• 2 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon ground paprika
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon sea-salt (or more depending on your preference)

I only used 1 potato since I found this massive baby in IGA, Match stick for scale.

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and cut up the sweet potato into wedge-like shapes and dump them in a large mixing bowl.

2. Add the olive oil, salt, ground paprika and garlic powder.

3. Mix it up well.

4. Spread them out nicely then chuck it in the oven for 40 minutes, make sure to flip them after 20 minutes.

Taadaa~ you've got yourself a lovely snack throughout the day. I usually like to have it with garlic aioli sauce but it tastes amazing plain too. How easy was this to make? 

♥ Jess