Isn't it always the way, you are looking for one thing and find something completely different! I went into Sainsbury's to pick up the genius crumpets to try as I have tried others and not enjoyed them, so Genius have been recommended to me. But when I reached the section where I have seen them a million times, they had sold out of of them and these brioche were in their place.

Although I thought £2.29 was a lot for two brioche, I was shopping hungry and I grabbed them as they did look pretty good!

This product is free from wheat, gluten and dairy but does contain eggs and soya. They are also suitable for coeliacs and vegetarians so most allergens and dietary requirements are covered in this product!

These brioche are 188 calories and are packed with chocolate chips. See the chart I created below for full nutritional information.

	Per 100g	Per roll (typically 50g)	%RI Per Roll
Energy K/Kcal	1572/376	786/188	9%
Fat	19.5g	9.8g	14%
Of which Saturates	3.3g	1.7g	9%
Carbohydrate	42.6g	21.3g	-
Of which Sugars	11.1g	5.6g	6%
Protein	4.8g	2.4g	-
Fibre	5.4g	2.7g	-
Salt	0.8g	0.4g	7%
*Reference intake of an average (8400 KJ/ 2000 Kcal) – (information taken from Sainsburys.co.uk)

I find that the texture is soft, bouncy and very aerated once cut open. The chocolate chips are slightly harder and this gives a good mix of textures. However I like to toast brioche so the chips melt and become slightly gooey and infuse into the bread giving a much more luxurious taste.

The bread is subtly sweet the way you would expect a mainstream brioche. I toasted mine and ate it plain as this is how I enjoy sweeter breads. I found that this really heightened the flavour as the chips are quite dark and slightly bitter in flavour and this combined with the sweet bread gives a fantastic sweet fix!

I ate mine for breakfast and it kept me full right until lunch time so although I thought that these were quite pricey they are filling as well as delicious so I think they can be forgiven!

Overall even though I thought these were over priced I did really enjoyed them and I think I would buy them again, but maybe only as a treat as for a regular basis they are a bit more than I would like to spend, particularly when I am the only gluten free eater and I have many bread etc on the go at any one time in the freezer.

Maybe next time I will find the crumpets!

Hannah x

Brioche is something I have never had before so when my Mum brought me the DS gluten free Brioche loaf I was not too sure what to do with it, so I decided to have it for breakfast!

This loaf was very sweet as I assume a regular brioche is, this syrupy like sweetness actually makes the cake like bread very moist, which was a complete surprise to me, as we all know dryness and dry texture is normally the aspect that lets a gluten free product down.

I served mine toasted to give it a little crispy crunch and would either eat it straight off the grill or I added some raspberry jam or some Nutella and banana. This made the sweet loaf into an almost dessert for breakfast!

This product is only available in Tesco currently and is £3 a loaf, so average price for a gluten free loaf, the slices are quite small but the flavour is great so I don't mind the compromise too much.

Pros:

• Unusual product to find gluten free.
• The loaf is incredibly moist.
• The taste is lovely and sweet but not over sickly. 
• The product did not go off before I finished it.

Cons:

• £3 is quite a lot for a small loaf, but as the taste is good I can overlook this slightly.
• Tesco are the only stockiest, I order mine online, this way you get more variation.

Overall I would buy this product again but it is not something I would buy regularly, as firstly I think I would get sick of it if I ate it all the time but also the cost plays a part in this, as it's on more of the expensive end of the bread based products as it is quite small in size compared to other £3 loaves. Nevertheless I would 100% recommend it if you wanted a sweet treat as it is delicious, just a little pricey!

Hannah x