McVitie’s Penguin & Friends (Iceland) By @SpectreUK

I like little calorie controlled bags of chocolate biscuits. They're supposed to be for kid's lunchboxes, I guess, but I like to tip them on top of a tub of low calorie ice cream on an evening as part of my pudding. These McVitie's Penguin & Friends are McVitie's take on all the other biscuit bag varieties out there. I love Penguins, I have done since I used to have one everyday in my lunchbox as a child, so now I'm going to try mini Penguins on my evening tub of ice cream.

I opted for vanilla ice cream to try with these cocoa flavoured Penguin and other animal shaped biscuits. On opening the packet you can see the cocoa coloured animal shaped McVitie's Penguin & Friends biscuits. On first taste these biscuits had a lovely crunch to them. Though that's were the fun stopped.

On first taste I was taken aback. These cute little Penguin and friends biscuits shapes are crunchy indeed, but not very chocolaty, not very sweet and they were actually quite dry in texture and flavour. These McVitie's Penguin & Friends biscuits could be mistaken for savoury biscuits, they could possibly be eaten with cheese. They definitely needed my ice cream more than my ice cream needed them. I think I'll leave it at that.

Information on the packet; There are 5 x packets at 91 calories per bag, with 3g of fat, 4.9g of sugar, and 0.2g of salt. Made with no artificial colours or flavours. Please see photograph for the ingredients.