It’s been a big week for Marks & Spencer shoppers…
First, the retailer unveiled a brand new, gluten-free version of its iconic Colin the Caterpillar cake, which Metro’s resident coeliac hailed as ‘sensational’.
And now it’s just confirmed that a fan-favourite item customers have spent months begging for is finally returning.
Speckled Egg Cookies are back in the in-store bakery after the company faced ‘overwhelming demand’ for the sweet treat.
Priced at £3.25 for a pack of five cookies (that works out at 65p per cookie), the baked good is made with the signature M&S cookie dough and features a combination of milk and white chocolate buttons, cornflakes and Speckled Eggs.
Shoppers can find them in M&S Foodhalls as of January 28, and they’ll be available until Easter, unless they sell out sooner.
And if this isn’t enough, packets of Speckled Eggs have also returned to stores, as well, and customers have hailed them as being ‘much better’ than Cadbury Mini Eggs.
There’s also a brand new Giant Speckled Eggs Crunchy bar, priced at £7.50, which puts a seasonal Easter spin on the iconic Big Daddy bar.
Instead of being filled with caramel and nuts, this one features M&S mini eggs, cornflakes and corn pieces, all inside a cereal flavour milk chocolate bar.
On social media, shoppers have been sharing their excitement over the return of the Speckled Egg cookies, with Liv Newman saying she’d been waiting a year for the product to return and got up at 6am to nab some before they sell out.
‘M&S Speckled Egg cookies are finally out, I feel like we’ve been waiting all year for these,’ she said in a video. ‘I’ve been counting down the days, and I woke up at 6am to go and get these. The shelves were pretty stocked to be fair.’
Liv added that the combination of ‘gooey cookie’ and ‘crunchy’ egg is exactly what she needs, and ‘M&S cookies never miss’.
Similarly, Jamie Dear claimed they are ‘one of the best cookies’ as Kieran Turner branded them ‘unreal’ and Sophie Lois said they were her ‘favourite’.
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TikTok user @lucyboyerr commented that the M&S cookies were ‘the best cure for anything’ and @alanajasminethomas thought they were ‘the nicest cookies [she’d] ever tried’.
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This comes after M&S were recently crowned victorious in a Metro taste test of chocolate digestive biscuits.
The Metro team conducted a blind taste test, pitting supermarket own-brand biscuits against big brands like McVitie’s.
And it was Marks & Spencer’s Milk Chocolate Digestives (£1.25 for 300g) that beat the competition, garnering an overall score of 86 out of 100.
According to M&S, these biscuits contain demerara sugar for ‘a crunchier texture’, and they certainly didn’t disappoint in this department.
They scored highly for their ‘satisfying crunch’ and ‘memorable flavour’, and proved especially popular with the team when it came to dunkability (a crucial factor for any biscuit lover), with a rating of 18 out of 20.
‘The chocolate got nice and melty, the biscuit softened just enough but still retained some bite,’ read one of the reviews.
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