La Grande Galette translates to “the big flat round cake” in English, but these St. Michel La Grande Galette French Butter Cookies don’t quite live up to that description. In my opinion, they’re more like a biscuit than a cake—buttery, crispy, and barely sweet. Made in France, these cookies appear to be a bit plain, but could their understated appearance be deceiving?
Location in Store
These cookies are located in the Christmas/seasonal aisle at Costco, near the David’s Butter Pecan Meltaways and the Costco Kirkland Signature European Cookies. The item number is 1649248.
Taste
These are a very simple cookie. My mom and I tried them together and we both had similar thoughts about them. They’re tasty but they’re not anything special. The taste reminds me a lot of the Kelsen Danish Butter Cookies also from Costco.
The flavor is sweet and buttery, almost like a mix between a shortbread cookie and a sugar cookie. The texture is pretty crispy but not hard and a little on the dry side. If you let them linger in your mouth, they kind of melt so I think they’d pair perfectly with a coffee, tea or hot chocolate.
Cost
The 600-gram box costs $13.49 Canadian which isn’t bad considering there’s quite a few cookies in the box and they’re a product of France.
Convenience
The cookies come packaged in groups of four which helps keep the cookies fresh because you’re not having to open a whole sleeve of cookies. The expiry date is about seven months from when I purchased them.
These are not too sweet and are very unembellished. They’re great for someone who doesn’t like very rich or chocolaty cookies. They’d be great as a side with ice cream or for dunking into tea, coffee or hot chocolate.
Nutrition
Calories
Four biscuits contain 330 calories, 14 grams of fat, 46 grams of carbohydrates, two grams of fibre, 17 grams of sugar, four grams of protein and 200 milligrams of sodium. The biscuits aren’t necessarily small, I could eat maybe two maximum in one sitting.
Obviously these aren’t low in calories, fat, carbohydrates, or sugar if you eat all four cookies. However, if you have one or two they’re not atrocious. The amount of sugar in each cookie especially isn’t that high.
Ingredients
The ingredients list is pretty short and sweet which I really appreciate. I had to look up what Guerande Sea Salt is and it’s basically a completely natural and unrefined salt. The biscuits contain wheat milk and egg and may contain tree nuts, sesame seeds and soy.
Scoring
Taste: 7/10
Cost: 8/10
Convenience: 10/10
Nutrition: 2/10 (Points for the simple ingredients).
Overall
Give it a try!
I have zero complaints about these biscuits, I think they’re tasty just not spectacular or anything special. If you’re looking for a very plain, basic biscuit, these would probably suit your fancy! One or two is tasty but I think I’d get tired of a whole box of them.
FAQ
36 cookies.
83 calories and three and a half grams of fat.
France!
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