Maryland Cookies
{{Short description|A type of cookie (biscuit) produced in the UK}}
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Maryland Cookies are a brand name of cookie produced by Burton's Biscuit Company in the United Kingdom.{{cite journal | last = Mason | first = Tania | url=http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/170411/branding-burtons-relaunches-maryland-cookies | title=BRANDING: Burton's relaunches Maryland Cookies | journal = Marketing | accessdate = 27 March 2014 | date = 13 February 2003}}
Background information
Maryland cookies were first produced by Lyons in 1956 through its Blackpool subsidiary Symbol Biscuits.{{Cite web |last= Bird |first= Peter |title= Symbol Biscuits Ltd (Lyons Biscuits Ltd) |year= 2002 |url= http://www.kzwp.com/lyons/symbol.htm |access-date=6 October 2023}} At the end of 1994, Lyons Biscuits was sold to Hillsdown Holdings, which in turn was acquired in 1999 by Hicks Muse Tate & Furst. HMTF split off Hillsdown's biscuit manufacturing arm into the Horizon Biscuit Company, and when HMTF bought Burton's Foods in 2000, they merged it with Horizon.{{cite web|url=https://www.marketingweek.com/horizon-and-burtons-biscuits-merge/ |title=Horizon and Burton's Biscuits merge |date=2 November 2000 |access-date=6 October 2023 |publisher=Marketing Week}} Maryland Cookies subsequently took on Burton's branding. In 2021 Burton's was bought by the Ferrero Group.{{Cite web |title=Our History |url=https://www.burtonsbiscuits.com/our-story/our-history/ }} Today, Maryland is one of the UK's best selling cookies.{{cite web | url = http://www.burtonsbiscuits.com/our-brands/maryland/ | accessdate = 27 March 2014 | last = Burton's Biscuit Company | title = Maryland cookies}} Over 12 billion Maryland Cookies are sold within Europe each year.{{Cite web|title=Maryland Cookies wants to pay somebody to taste cookies; Over 12 billion Maryland Cookies are sold within Europe each year. - Free Online Library|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Maryland+Cookies+wants+to+pay+somebody+to+taste+cookies;+Over+12...-a0592076569|access-date=2021-06-06|website=www.thefreelibrary.com}} The recipe for Maryland Cookies resembles a chocolate chip shortbread.{{Cite web|title=Maryland cookies copycat recipe|url=http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/8195/maryland-cookies-copycat-recipe.aspx|access-date=2021-06-06|website=allrecipes.co.uk|language=en-GB}}
References
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.burtonsbiscuits.com/our-brands/maryland/}}
- [https://baybiscuits.co.uk/biscuits/maryland-biscuits-cookies Maryland biscuits]; Bay Biscuits