Mulino Bianco

Mulino Bianco belongs to Barilla, the Italian family company best known for pasta, and since the 1970s it has been the name on the biscuits Italians eat at breakfast. The brand is built on shortbread style biscuits with simple ingredients, made in Italy and dunked in milky coffee from the north of the country to the south.

We keep Mulino Bianco in biscuits and cookies, part of snacks and noodles. The classic shortbread biscuits made with fresh eggs are on the sweet biscuits shelf, and the small sandwich biscuits filled with hazelnut and cocoa cream, made without palm oil as the pack states, are in cream biscuits.

Italians dunk the egg shortbread in caffè latte, where it softens without falling apart, and it is just as good with a cup of tea. Crush a handful for a tiramisu style dessert with mascarpone and coffee, or press it into a cheesecake base. The filled biscuits are a small treat for a lunchbox or an after school snack with a glass of milk, and a few on a saucer make a neat finish to a dinner with friends.

Close the pack with a clip after opening, since shortbread draws in moisture and goes soft, and store it somewhere cool and dry. For more continental biscuits see cookies, and for the morning coffee browse coffee.