Balconi Mix Max Cocco, 12.4 oz (350g)

Baked to European rules. Potassium bromate and azodicarbonamide, both used to treat flour in American baking, are not permitted in the European Union. Six food colours that are still common in American biscuits and iced cakes must carry a warning on the label here, so European bakers stopped using them. Titanium dioxide, used to make icing and coatings an opaque white, has been banned as a food colour in the EU since 2022. It is the same reason the ingredient list on the back of the pack is short.

An Italian oven-baked snack cake featuring a soft cocoa sponge generously filled with a smooth coconut cream and dusted with cocoa powder. Made in Nerviano, Italy with no preservatives or colorants, each individually wrapped portion delivers 150 calories. The contrast between the lightly bitter cocoa exterior and the tropical coconut filling makes for a distinctive and satisfying combination.

Ingredients

Sugar, vegetable oil shortening (palm, palm kernel, highly refined coconut oil), glucose-fructose syrup, wheat flour, eggs, coconut, skimmed milk, cocoa powder processed with alkali, and less than 2% of: sunflower oil, artificial flavourings, mono- and diglycerides, soya lecithin, raising agents (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid pyrophosphate), salt, whey protein (from milk), wheat starch.

Allergens

🚨 CONTAINS: WHEAT, MILK, EGGS, SOYA, COCONUT. ⚠️ May contain tree nuts — hazelnut, almond, pistachio and walnut. Coconut is classed as a tree nut under US labelling rules.

Ten individually wrapped little cakes, 35 g each — a coconut filling (18.5%) under a cocoa coating (24.7%). Suitable for vegetarians, as stated on the pack. Made by Balconi at Nerviano, outside Milan.

Nutrition

Per cake (35 g), 10 per pack: 150 calories, 8 g total fat (5 g saturated, 0 g trans), 15 mg cholesterol, 40 mg sodium, 19 g carbohydrate, under 1 g fibre, 13 g total sugars of which 12 g added (24% DV), 2 g protein. Calcium 25 mg, iron 0.8 mg, potassium 90 mg. Per 100 g: 54 g carbohydrate of which 38 g sugars, 5.2 g protein, 0.30 g salt.