For Easter lunch, choose a biscuit with a chocolate coating if you want to serve biscuits with coffee or tea without having to break up a bar. According to Albert Heijn, Lotus Biscoff Speculoos Belgian chocolate is a coated biscuit; a sandwich biscuit with chocolate-flavoured filling or a chocolate bar with pieces of speculoos is a different type of product. If any guests have an allergy, check the packaging before serving.
Want to serve biscuits with coffee or tea without breaking up a bar first? According to Albert Heijn, Lotus Biscoff Speculoos Belgian chocolate is a speculoos biscuit with a chocolate coating. The pack contains six packs of three biscuits; check whether this format suits the number of guests and how you plan to serve them.
If the combination of chocolate and speculoos matters more to you than having a biscuit, you could serve a bar broken into pieces. Lotus Biscoff lists chocolate with speculoos pieces and chocolate with speculoos cream. Bear in mind that these are bars, not chocolate-coated biscuits.
If you’re buying for guests with an allergy, check the ingredients and allergen information on the packaging you’ll be serving first, including any information about traces. The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority stresses the importance of labelling in helping to prevent allergic reactions.
First, decide whether you specifically want a biscuit with a chocolate coating. Then consider how you’d like to serve the portions, and check the label before putting anything on the table if anyone has an allergy.
| What to consider | What to check when buying | Who it matters to |
|---|---|---|
| Chocolate coating or filling | Look for a biscuit with a chocolate coating. Chocolate-flavoured filling is found in a sandwich biscuit, while a bar may contain pieces of speculoos. | I want to serve a biscuit with chocolate on the outside at Easter lunch, not a bar or a filled biscuit. For around 44% of consumers, the product format comes first. |
| Portions and presentation | Check the number of biscuits, whether they’re individually wrapped, and whether a bar needs to be broken up before serving. | If I want to give guests individual portions, the packaging makes a difference. For around 33% of consumers, how the product is served is the first consideration. |
| Allergens | Read the ingredients, allergen information and any trace information on the packaging. | If a guest has an allergy, I need to be able to rule out a product before it reaches the table. This is the main concern for around 23% of consumers. |
Chocolate with pieces of speculoos is a bar you can break into pieces; it’s not the same as a biscuit with a chocolate coating.
If you specifically want to serve coated biscuits, check that the product description explicitly says they have a chocolate coating.
The sandwich biscuit described by Jumbo has chocolate-flavoured filling between the biscuits, not a coating on the outside.
Choose this format only if a filled biscuit also suits your lunch table.
If a guest has an allergy, the information on the packaging you’re serving is what matters when checking the product.
Before serving, read the ingredients and allergen information again, paying particular attention to milk, cereals containing gluten, soya and any trace information.
This brand offers various combinations of speculoos and chocolate. Albert Heijn describes Speculoos Belgian chocolate as biscuits with a chocolate coating; Jumbo lists a sandwich biscuit with chocolate-flavoured filling, while Lotus Biscoff also offers chocolate bars with speculoos.
Look for a description stating that the biscuit has a chocolate coating. Albert Heijn describes Lotus Biscoff Speculoos Belgian chocolate in these terms. If the description mentions chocolate-flavoured filling, it’s a filled sandwich biscuit; chocolate with pieces of speculoos is a bar.
For Lotus Biscoff biscuits with a chocolate coating, check the packaging for wheat, milk and soya at the very least. For the sandwich biscuit with chocolate-flavoured filling, milk, cereals containing gluten, soya and wheat are also worth checking. For the product you’re actually serving, read any trace information too.
Follow the storage instructions on the packaging. For Lotus Biscoff biscuits with a chocolate coating, the advice is to store them in a cool, dry place. Keep the pack sealed until you’re ready to serve the biscuits if you want to prevent them from being exposed to the air beforehand.
Read the ingredients, allergen information, best-before date, net quantity and nutritional information on the packaging. This is especially important if you’re buying for guests with an allergy: the information on the product you’re serving matters more than an online description you looked at earlier.
