I love Oreo cookies and was super excited to try this new Oreo flavour! It's super Canadian because it uses maple syrup from Quebec.
The Texture:
Same crispy and chewy texture you would find in the original Oreo with a soft icing centre. Mr. Christie really loaded up on the filling because it's THICK! A great eat-the-middle-first cookie!
A note on the filling: it contains two different artificial food colours (sunset yellow and brilliant blue). If you're not a fan of food colouring, stay clear of this cookie because the filling looks artificially yellow.
The Flavour:
This is NOT your traditional maple-shaped cookie and these Oreos taste nothing like the Maple Leaf Cookies from Peek Freans. The cookie itself tastes like a golden Oreo. When I first bit into the Oreo cookie, I had to think twice about whether there was even maple in it. There's no in-your-face maple flavour. The maple flavour is very, very subtle, especially when it's balanced out with a buttercream flavour. The filling is like eating a stick of butter that's covered in maple syrup. It sounds gross...but at the same time, this is what imagine when eat this Oreo.
Overall, if you like Oreos and maple syrup and buttercream, you will likely like this cookie, but don't expect a strong maple syrup flavour punch; it really is the perfect balance between maple and creme and both flavours shine through!
INGREDIENTS: Sugars (sugar, glucose-fructose, maple syrup), Wheat flour, Modified palm oil, Vegetable oil, Corn starch, Salt, Baking soda, Soy lecithin, Natural and artificial flavour, Tartrazine, Sunset yellow FCF, Brilliant blue FCF.Contains: Wheat, Soy.
