Puttin' on the Ritz
Sweet Biscuit, originally uploaded by pinkass.
Don’t these totally look like the Ritz cracker’s foreign cousin, possibly from Italy, swathed in bright colours and doing some kind of sultry dance? I thought so. I wonder what they taste like.
ICED GEMS! I used to nibble the icing off the top, and then leave the cookie. It’s like a rich tea, but with hard iceing stuff…
These are awesome!!! In Puerto Rico we call the ones without the hard icing “Cientoenboca” which means “100 in the mouth.”
I love these, the cookie is very bland and the hard icing very sweet, and yes, you can eat hundreds if you’re a hog like me!
Grew up with these. They never really tasted like much to me. The appeal was eating the icing first (and kind of abandoning the base
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I can imagine someone shoving dozens of these into their mouth and then bragging about it.
Oh THESE! My nan & pop used to give me these, I LOVED them. I think they’re an English candy coz my grandparents are English. (I’m Australian).
these weren’t my favorite..I wanted the bottoms to be salty ritz crackers with the icing soft and sweet..hard, hard, hard..but oh so cute and great for decorating Gingerbread Houses…
I haven’t had iced gems in YEARS…! I love them. The icing is all kind of dissolvey when you lick it!
I seriously thought these were iced oyster crackers at first.
I had billions of these as a kid in the Philippines, so they must be from an international cookie company! Love it!
Midget Gems! (or Iced Gems) – they’re not salty crackers, they’re slightly sweet, and the icing on top is sort of crunchy but dissolves on the tongue.
Not a taste sensation, but fun to eat. I always preferred to bite the icing off and then eat the little biscuits.
( I come from Scotland, I’m sure everyone in the UK is familiar with them)
Oh, not 100% sure which those are but those look somewhat like these cookies a relative of mine that lives in Puerto Rico sends at Christmas-time and oh boy are they good. Well, the icing is. Like dried birthday cake icing the texture at first but after that it dissolves . Either way, it’s way sweet. The cookie- is okay. I can’t explain the taste of the cookie save to say it really is just there to get the glob of icing to your mouth.
But yes, they are adorable.
And who ever said they look like iced- oyster crackers- you’re not alone. I’ve thought that for years.
ICED GEMS! FTW!!
whoa that’s cute!
They are indeed Iced Gems!
http://www.chicaboos.com/IcedGems.jpg
Not Midget Gems though.. those were like small wine gums.. here:
http://www.sweetgreetingsshildon.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=63
Does anyone remember those little round cookies with chocolate filling in the UK..? They were called Cartoonies because they had pictures of little cartoon characters printed on them.
If you got them in your lunchbox you were the envy of everyone around you! Those were the days.. delicious!
Eww, iced gems! Everyone always wants to like them because they’re so cute but they just taste nasty. They always have this weird dusty taste like they’ve been sitting in your auntie’s cupboard for years.
I didn’t know what they were called when I used to eat them, but I actually enjoyed the taste. I’m one for the mildly-sweet, even-on-your-tongue tastes, and I actually never minded the hardness of the frosting. If the frosting was soft, I’m pretty sure it would’ve been squished.
those look real good!
the ones we get in norway looks like they’re hundred years old. they taste like it too.
i never really liked them, but i did eat them.. didn’t get that much candy so ate all i got.. almost :p
i never remember what they’re called, but it’s something weird, and i think it sounds dutch..
but this is the kind of cookie that doesnt have any true motherland, i think.
So tempted to rush out and buy some of these at lunch now! The real trick was to be able to eat the base first so that you could be left with a whole bag of the icing.
The cookies remind me of a hard biscuit-like cookie called ‘Marie-Lu’–except those have a sort of glaze, but if you left it off they’d look a lot like those. In any case, I know exactly how they taste! Sort of sweet but with an odd texture to them. I love their little icing topknots!
Aw! Ice-gems! I never really liked the coloured ones, the icing doesn’t taste nice to me, but the chocolate ones rock.
the ones we got in the store in norway these days are called “crack-it”. it also says royal biscuits (?).
i suppose this is the danish company or something, they are from denmark, but made in belgium.. just had to tell yah
they looked better then i remembered them. :p
To me they look like wee pieces of pie crust with icing on top. Mmmm.
Here in asia, they’re commonly called Fancy Gems. Ate a ton of them when we were kids. The hard crumbly icing melts almost instantly in the mouth. The cookie bit evens out the candy by being kind of chalky and bland.
The ones without the icing we call “belly-buttons”.
I firmly believe that the icing bit does taste different according to what colour it is – yellow is slightly lemony. But I haven’t had them in ages, so they might be chalky and bland.
i don’t know what they’re called, but we have these in singapore and malaysia too! ah, brings back childhood memories!
My grandparents, who are from Puerto Rico, call them “Florecitas” (loosely translated to little flowers) I grew up with these and i still love them i first eat the base, which tastes like a tea cookie, and then the icing!!
Oh we have these in Singapore! I used to buy them as a child from the shop downstairs, really cheap and really satisfying! Om nom nom brings back memories.
Yep, these are English alright! We grew up eating as many of these as we could (sugar kick!!). Can’t remember exactly what they were called, but can remember that they didn’t have any real taste (other than exceptionally sweet when you stuffed a whole load in your mouth at once
). I had forgotten these until I saw the pic on this site… brings back wonderful memories of other sugary goodies from my chilhood.
HOMAIGOD I LOVE THESE
prz try them if you found them! THEYRE MADE OF AWESUM.
kthxbai
We also have them here in the Philippines. I never bothered finding out where they’re from.
I eat all the biscuits first, then OD on the sweet icing afterwards. Yum :p
I eat these things all the time! My mom and I fight for them! We get two packs of them every time we visit my Grandma in NJ.