These Barilla Mulino Bianco Baiocchi are hazelnut and cocoa creme sandwich cookies that take their name from an ancient Italian coin.
Each sandwiched cookie is ~4 cm in diameter and ~1.4 cm in height with a moreish choc-hazelnut aroma.
The biscuit had an unsweetened, gentle savoury flavour with a dry, fine crumb that crunches through audibly for the first half of the bite before picking up the moisture on the palate and softening with a gentle, nuttiness as the choc-hazelnut cream melts. The cookie is one of the most elegant combinations of chocolate and hazelnut, delivering a restrained sweetness that delivered both a crunch and creamy mouthfeel in one bite. The Italians really know their cookies, it seems.
This Barilla Mulino Bianco Baiocchi contained 200 g. It was produced in Italy and purchased in Sydney, Australia in 2020.