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Made in Northern Ireland

6 February, 2018 by admin

Situated just 30 minutes from the resting place of St. Patrick, Iconic Biscuits takes pride in using local ingredients and suppliers for every element, from the butter to the packaging.

Alcohol

Our choice of alcohols go through an extensive testing procedure, before they can be accepted as a flavour for our biscuits.

Northern Ireland, Ireland and in particular, County Down, is renowned for distilleries of craft beers, whiskeys and gin. This provides an enviable choice of delicious alcohols to choose from and pair with our biscuits.

Honey

Honey is a special ingredient, used for thousands of years, renowned for beneficial health properties and a huge variety of distinctive flavours.

Our honey comes from bees who collect pollen in the neighbouring fields, before their honey is harvested by an apiarist (beekeeper) just five minutes down the road from our kitchen in County Down.

A chef himself, and avid apiarist, his bees are carefully managed, producing a select amount of honey each year. The honey gives our luxury biscuits a unique sweetness and soft texture, perfect for a luxurious taste.

Creamy Local Butter

6 February, 2018 by admin

The beautiful, creamy, rich butter for our biscuits comes from dairy farms just a couple of hours away.

Butter forms the basis for nearly all biscuits, so it’s choice is crucial to the right taste, texture and shape.

Our local dairies provide this delicious butter, loved throughout Northern Ireland, and used in our biscuits for the perfect balance of taste and texture.

Irish Whiskey

5 February, 2018 by admin

Among the selection of alcohols, that make up the Iconic Biscuits range, Whiskey has always been at the top of our list for scrutiny.

The whiskey for our biscuits is as steeped in flavour, as it is in history, and distilled not far from our own premises.

A single malt, with an iconic taste, we opted for a high percentage of whiskey in our biscuits. While the increased liquid makes a softer biscuit, we believe it also makes for a better biscuit, with a genuine whiskey malt taste.

We tested a small number of well known whiskeys in a wide variety of amounts and concentrations, to come up with the optimum percentage. Added at a key point in the mixing, our biscuits retain a delicious whiskey flavour, a flavour uniquely available from Northern Ireland.