Today we're talking about biscuits, specifically, The Vegan Treaterie's cookies and shortbread, which I have definitely fallen a little in love with.
The Vegan Treaterie is a small business started by Madi who, after moving to the UK from NZ in 2015, fell into our very British obsession with tea and biscuits. You can't blame her really because who doesn't love a good cup of tea and a biscuit? Vegan biscuits aren't difficult to find - I mean Oreos are pretty much everywhere, however, the market was somewhat lacking a really good quality vegan biscuit brand, which is where The Vegan Treaterie was born from.
With cookie flavours including chocolate and peanut, ginger and walnut, and pistachio and lemon; and shortbreads flavoured with lemon, spices, and salted chocolate, The Vegan Treaterie is shaking up the biscuit scene, which is so often forgotten about in favour of donuts and cakes (not that I'm complaining). All the biscuits come in really cute tins too, making them perfect for giving as a gift, something other vegan biscuits are definitely lacking.
Madi so very kindly sent me two tins of her lovely biscuits to try after I discovered her Instagram and went on a bit of a liking party, commenting how incredible I thought her treats looked. She sent me a tin of the ginger and walnut cookies and one of the salted chocolate shortbread. Let me tell you, when you open a package and are greeted with the wonderful sweet smell of homebaked biscuits, you know what's inside is going to be good.
The cookies were divine; crunchy but with a bit of a chew, as all good cookies should be, and delicious. The shortbread was also lovely but let me just preface this by saying vegan shortbread is damn hard to make and I think Madi has done a really good job, but as a Scot, it wasn't shortbready enough for me - that melt in your mouth, crumbly goodness just wasn't there. However, it tasted amazing and it took much restraint not to eat the whole tin in one go.
So, in summary, I'm really loving The Vegan Treaterie and can't wait to get my hands on more of their biscuits (and probs give them to all my friends and family this Christmas...)!
*Madi very kindly sent me these biscuits to try but, as always, all opinions, thoughts, and gushings of love for delicious vegan food are my own.
