Tried-and-Tasted: Supermarket Best Brand Cookies

Budget, mid-range and high end supermarkets went head-to-head against a high-end luxury food retailer in our inaugural tried-and-tested supermarket product test to find out which shop offered the best tasting office staple: chocolate chip cookies.

A crack team of semi-professional biscuit tasters from the Huffington Post UK desks charged their milk glasses, topped up their tea and set out to find the crème de la crème of supermarket top-end cookie offerings.

Did ultra chocolate-covered win over a plain traditional choc chip cookie and could the cheapest brand stand up against a luxury supplier? Find out which supermarket took the cookie crown below.

Tried-and-Tasted Cookies

Fifth: Aldi Momento Chocolate Chunk Cookies, 200g 0.69(01 of05)

Aldi's Momento cookie is the cheapest of the bunch and was initially greeted with enthusiasm. Tasters called it "what a chic chip cookie should look like" and "would be the best with a cup of tea." Unluckily for Aldi the cookie crumbled under tasting scrutiny with the whole panel naming it bottom biscuit and saying it was "overly sweet," "not chocolatey enough" and, worst of all: "like a Maryland cookie." The Momento wasn't that memorable and scored an average of 1/5, putting it in last place. (credit:ALDI)

Fourth: Tesco Finest Quadruple Belgian Chocolate Chunk Cookies, 200g £1.69(02 of05)

Our testers thought these triple chocolate cookies looked the most tempting and said: "It looks like you get lots of chocolate for your buck." Although the sheer amount of chocolate on show proved to be intimidating for some with one saying they looked "incredibly rich." All the tasters found the biscuit fell down in flavour when they came to try it calling it "dry," "burnt" and claiming that it "tasted of coco powder." The Tesco's Finest cookie only managed to score an average mark of 2/5, putting it in fourth place. (credit:Tesco)

Joint Second: Waitrose Milk Chocolate & Chocolate Chip Cookies, 150g £1.75(03 of05)

The testers were initially excited about this biscuit with some saying that it looked the most luxurious and "full on chocolatey." Unfortunately most of the panellists changed there minds after tasting the cookie, claiming that there weren't enough chocolate chips inside. One tester said: "It promises so much chocolate but just doesn't deliver, disappointing." However, Waitrose's "melt-in-the-mouth texture" and potential dunk-ability meant it scored an average of 3/5 points, putting it neck and neck with Fortnum & Mason's in second place. (credit:Waitrose)

Joint Second: Fortnum & Mason Piccadilly Chocolate Pearl Biscuits, 200g £6.50(04 of05)

The panel had conflicting views on the appearance of this biscuit with half of them saying that it wasn't aesthetically pleasing, with one tester declaring that the chocolate pearls looked a bit like "rabbit poo." The other side said: "This looks like a posh hotel foyer biscuit, this is definitely not a Travelodge." Luckily for the Fortnum & Mason cookie, it scored well on flavour and texture with testers calling it "buttery" and one saying that it was the best one of the bunch. A mixed bag of sores meant that Fortnum's pricy cookie landed it in joint joint second with an average score of 3/5. (credit:Fortnum & Mason)

Winner: Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Belgian Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut Cookies, 200g £1.65(05 of05)

The look of this cookie got top marks with the tasters as they thought it looked "rustic" and "what a cookie should look like." It didn't disappoint in taste either with one candidate praising the quality of the chocolate and another enthusiastically declaring through a mouthful: "Mmmmmmmmm, it's got everything!" The Taste the Difference cookie rated consistently highly, getting an average score of 4/5, making it our tried-and-tasted winner. (credit:Sainsbury's)

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